[consulting] CiviCRM / Drupal integration expert

[Matt Chapman]

Cary assessment of the situation is mostly correct. I'd only modify
that the CiviCRM has made decided effort to get more community
involvement in the past year. Maybe that will make for substantive
change in CiviCRM 4.0, but even if it does, I still see plenty of
reasons to have a pure Drupal CRM. Maybe the two can coexist like
Ubercart and Drupal Commerce.


> By the way, Matt has a placeholder page for a module called Drop CRM
> <http://drupal.org/project/dropcrm>. Wonder what's cooking there?
>

What's cooking there is:  http://tinyurl.com/drupalcrm


All the Best,

Matt Chapman
Ninjitsu Web Development

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On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Cary Gordon <listuser at chillco.com> wrote:
> CiviCRM has never had a relationship to with the Drupal project other
> than the fact that CiviSpace/DeanSpace commissioned the original
> integration.
>
> The only reason anyone uses CiviCRM is because it is there. I have a
> friend who has been involved with it since the beginning, and his
> attitude seems to be a lot like Matt's. I read it as: the further you
> go with it, the warmer it gets.
>
> My take that it has a fundamentally flawed design, which the boss
> thinks is the one true design pattern, database edition, and isn't
> about to change, ever. This isn't really an open project (beyond
> publishing the code and providing an automatic withering response to
> any suggestion for change)?
>
> Fortunately, we can accomplish an increasing amount of what CiviCRM
> provides in Drupal. If you can meet your requirements that way, avoid
> CiviCRM. If not, be thankful that there are folks like Matt, Rob
> Thorne and a handful of others who are willing to make your problems
> theirs, and prey that they don't decide to raise their rates or become
> monks.
>

> Cary
>
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Kevin Reynen <kreynen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can we move the "I think CiviCRM should be X" conversation to a
>> CiviCRM specific forum so lobo and co. either tell you how to make
>> this happen or explain why won't happen?
>>
>> I'd like to see CiviCRM wash my car once a week, but I keep those
>> great ideas like that to myself until I have time or $$ to put towards
>> making it happen.
>>
>> - Kevin Reynen
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