Civicanada

CiviCRM has deep integrations with Drupal through entity, webform, etc. This is a CiviCRM event but will have discussions about Drupal woven through many of the presentations and activities during the 4 day sprint following the conference. There are two day trainings before the 1 day conference for those wanting an introduction or a refresher on developing CiviCRM extensions or Administrator Training.

I'm co-presenting the Admin Training, and co-leading a group working on Documentation during the sprint.

Check out our latest job posting here: http://www.freeform.ca/en/were-hiring-drupal-andor-civicrm-developer.

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Check out our latest job posting here: http://www.freeform.ca/en/were-hiring-drupal-andor-civicrm-developer.

WORK FROM HOME FROM ANYWHERE IN CANADA.
JOIN A LEADING TEAM AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD!

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CiviCon is the largest annual gathering for the community using and supporting CiviCRM, the free, open source CRM solution for nonprofits and civic-sector organizations with out of the box integration with Drupal.

Join us for the opportunity to network and learn from the most active users and implementers in the CiviCRM community. Whether you’re a user looking to share experiences and gain new knowledge or you’re a implementer looking to take your skills to the next level, CiviCon’s fantastic line-up of expert speakers and tracks will have something for everyone!

Whether you're already using or considering using CiviCRM, the conference is packed with the essential presentations, workshops and people that will help your organisation get the most from CiviCRM.

See videos from last years attendees here: https://london2014.civicrm.org/videos

Each year CiviCRM gets better. Organisations, implementers and the core team develop new tools and ways of working with Civi. CiviCon will keep you up to date with the latest functionality and inform you about the future of the project.

Who uses Drupal and CiviCRM to support advocacy and/or public policy work in Canada?

I've got a module here: https://drupal.org/project/civinorth
that I've been using on a number of sites for about a year and a half, and I'd be interested in helping others make use of it as well.

It's designed for a fairly specific meaning of 'advocacy' on a website - i.e., it facilitates communication from your organization's constituency (contacts in CiviCRM) with elected representatives (MPs, MPPs, city councillors).

CiviCon is the annual conference for users, implementors, and developers of CiviCRM and offers a unique opportunity to network with the most active users and implementors in the community.

This year we have expanded CiviCon into a two day event, so there are even more opportunities to:

• find out how make the most out of your CiviCRM installation
• learn about what's new and upcoming in the project
• connect with other users and service providers

A comprehensive two-day hands on training course for implementers, administrators, and developers who want to learn more about configuring, customizing, and extending CiviCRM to meet their organization / client needs. You don't need to be a 'developer' to attend but you should have basic PHP and MySQL skills, and be familiar with (or at least ready to dive into) the CiviCRM code base.

A comprehensive two day hands-on training course covering the every-day use and administration of CiviCRM. This event is aimed at administrators and staff users at organisations that are using CiviCRM, or interested in evaluating it. It is also useful for staff at organisations that develop or implement CiviCRM who need a complete understanding of "out of the box" features and configuration options.

I'm getting errors in the Drupal log which may be related to the fact that the addresses I am using are Canadian. The site is using CiviCRM 4.2 and Drupal 7.14

I get a bunch of errors like this:
Notice: Undefined property: CRM_Core_DAO::$coy.name as country
Notice: Undefined property: CRM_Core_DAO::$ste.name as state_province ...

Is there something special I need to do to resolve this?

I've also noticed that some errors in the error log seem to be related to the drop down list of Employers for a Contact.

Many Canadian non-profit organizations are protesting the latest federal budget, here:

http://www.blackoutspeakout.ca/

If you know of any organizations that use Drupal and would like to participate, you're welcome to use and/or recycle this simple D6 sandbox module (based on a similar module created for the US sopa campaign earlier this year).

http://drupal.org/sandbox/adixon/1611860

or just use this command to grab it:

git clone --recursive --branch master http://git.drupal.org/sandbox/adixon/1611860.git blackoutspeakout

Windows permission error.
Getting the following error: and tried
attrib -r default /S /D
and several other ways of removing read only attributes but keep getting this error.

The user account used by your web-server needs to be granted write access to the following directory in order to configure the CiviCRM settings file:
/C:/drupal-7.14/sites/default/files

The user account used by your web-server needs to be granted write access to the following directory in order to configure the CiviCRM settings file:
/C:/drupal-7.14/sites/default

Using Apache, PHP, Mysql

CIRA, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, is moving to implement internationalized domain names that will support a few accented characters common in French.

We see more and more organizations that want to have their domain name reflect their organization name and brand as localized in various languages, such as xfoundation.ca and fondationx.ca.

Win a free copy of the Using CiviCRM book by participating in Likesh's contest at http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,19378.0.html.

CiviCRM is a web-based, open source CRM system, designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental organizations that integrates deeply with Drupal, including content, views and the permissioning system. Elected officials, professional/trade associations, political campaigns and parties, government agencies, and other similar organizations are among its growing number of enthusiastic users. Using CiviCRM shows you how to harness CiviCRM’s impressive array of possibilities as you develop and execute performance-critical CRM strategies.

This book will help you become familiar with the structure and main functions of CiviCRM. It will guide you in developing and successfully implementing a CRM strategy for your organization using detailed explanations and practical examples.

Using CiviCRM walks you through developing a CRM Implementation Plan that is suited to your organization's size, culture, and needs. Readers will take away many constituent relationship management best practices and the knowledge of how to implement them with CiviCRM. Benefits of Using CiviCRM will be felt across your organization, and help it better achieve its mission.

CiviCRM Toronto Meetup - May 2010

Come meet others from the Toronto area who are interested in, using or developing for CiviCRM. For this first Toronto meetup we'll have an overview of existing and upcoming CiviCRM functionality, and have open question and answer sessions / breakout groups based on interests.

Meetup Agenda

• Introductions (6:30 - 7:00pm)
• Presentation on CiviCRM (7:00 - 7:30pm)
• Questions and Answers (Break-outs??) (7:30 - 8:30)

The Open Source Showcase for Non-Profits is happening in Toronto on October 26, 2009.

The showcase is a low-cost event where members of the non-profit sector can learn about open source projects relevant to their work, from people who create and support these projects.

Drupal and CiviCRM are two of the open source projects being profiled

More About this Event

As many of you may know (http://civicrm.org/node/532), there is going to be a CiviCRM book writing sprint in California on a new FLOSS publication for CiviCRM during the week of May 4, 2009. But even you can't make it to those sunny climes, you can have your say on what they should be writing...

As CiviCRM integrators, admins, and users, please feel free to review and add topics to the draft book outline here:

http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/CiviCRM/Outline

I've just come back from DrupalCon in DC and participated there and previously in some CiviCRM consultant discussions. There are some useful notes here: Notes from Drupalcon DC Birds of a Feather Discussion, and here: http://civicrm.org/node/499.

Hello
1. I am looking for a way to integrate civiContribute donations page as Drupal6 node. I found civiNode and civiNodeCCK but this module has not been updated for Drupal6. (It seems its development was paid for by good old Green Party of Canada.) Any suggestions?