CiviCRM is an Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) system, primarily for nonprofit or civic organizations, that can be integrated into Drupal (6, 7 & 8) as well as Wordpress, Joomla and Backdrop. And it's Open Source!
Drupal and CiviCRM have had a long history together, but there is only small overlap between the communities of people who really know both platforms.
Our team at myDropWizard are long-time Drupalers who have only started digging really deep into CiviCRM and we've discovered some AMAZING things that we want to share with the wider Drupal community.
For example:
- API First? Yeah, CiviCRM already has that. :-)
- Using front-end frameworks like Angular to build admin UI's? Already doing that too.
- WYSIWYG e-mail building tool that rivals the user experience of Mailchimp? Check!
- Super flexible membership management with recurring payment? Done for years.
This presentation will include a short introduction to CiviCRM, and how an organization might want to use it with Drupal, and a deep dive into some of the coolest features that never knew where there. :-)
If you work at or sometimes build Drupal sites for nonprofits or governments or other civic organizations, you NEED to see this! There's some really cool value that you could provide to these organizations that you're missing out on.
The goal is to learn a little bit about CiviCRM, and some of the coolest features (from the perspective of a Drupaler), so that you can know if you want to dig deeper, or maybe consider using CiviCRM on a future project.
