[drupal-devel] CiviCRM, Civicgroups, OG, Profile- Playing together

[David Geilhufe]

All-

We're new into the community, so we'd like some advice
on how to participate most effectively. So feel free
to hollar if there is a better way to engage you all.

We have some real, working code in the sandbox
(http://sandbox.openngo.com/crm/) so I think we've at
least hit the gold-standard ;)

One way that we can proceed is to continue down the
path with Neil and the CS guys and put together a
specific proposal for how CiviCRM will interact with
drupal (patching porofile, etc.) and get comments on
that specific proposal.

At the same time, folks using drupal for virtually any
use where keeping track of the relationships between
users is important will likely want to look at our
stuff and use it in ways we have yet to imagine.

Looking forward to continuing the conversation,

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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 09:11:27 +0200
From: Dries Buytaert <dries at buytaert.net>
Subject: Re: [drupal-devel] CiviCRM, Civicgroups, OG,
Profile- Playing
	together
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On 12 May 2005, at 16:43, David Geilhufe wrote:
> Or does it make sense for CiviCRM to "take over"
> the Profile functionality if it's installed? (We
> tend toword the latter approach to keep the model
> cleaner and provide the opportunity for deeper
> integration to a shared data model).
>
> We would love to get this discussion and decisions
> going anywhere it might be appropriate (drupal-dev,
> cs-dev, crm-dev).

I'm afraid none of us Drupal developers are familiar
with CiviCRM. It 
is hard to make recommendations without having looked
at CiviCRM ...  
The fact that user profiles don't have a "data model"
is an interesting 
point.  How did the FOAF module solve this?  I'd think
a data model is 
required to syndicate information between sites. 
Either way, we're not 
opposed to patches that make the profile module more 
extensible/powerful.

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Dries Buytaert  ::  http://www.buytaert.net/

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