[consulting] consulting Digest, Vol 52, Issue 15

[Joe Murray]

Fair enough. Thanks everyone on this list for your indulgence.

Cheers,

Joe Murray, PhD
President, JMA Consulting
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On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:00 AM, <consulting-request at drupal.org> wrote:

> So Matt, I'm unclear on whether your vision for Drupal CRM and work on it
> involves integrating with and leveraging CiviCRM or redeveloping from the
> ground up, or maybe both.
>
> In the short term I am interested in allowing Drupal's goodness as a dev
> framework to supplement the user focussed built-in functionality of
> CiviCRM.
>
>
> Creating a data layer in Drupal to access CiviCRM's database is a great
> start, since this will presumably enable stuff to built on top of it. D7's
> shift from node to entities and other more generic standards like a Schema,
> EntityController, etc will avoid the ugliness and waste of things like
> synching up CiviCRM with copies in Drupal nodes, or membership in an OG and
> a CiviCRM group.
>
> In the medium and longer term there may some ability to share efforts
> between a Drop CRM and CiviCRM. However, at the moment I see a fair degree
> of divergence. Drop is oriented towards a commercial rather than non-profit
> organization. All CRM's share a great deal of functionality, however, and
> there are benefits to having a larger install base and developer community
> for an open source software project / install profile. For example, Convio
> has reskinned and extended SalesForce.com for the non-profit world in its
> Common Ground SaaS offering. The second area where I have trouble imagining
> a full convergence is that CiviCRM supports Joomla as well as Drupal. I
> have
> trouble imagining Joomla folks wanting to have a Drupal as well as Joomla
> install on their system.
>
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