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September eh?  Louis - if it works for you let's shoot for that.... I'm thinking the 21st/22nd - friday, then social event/party that night then a couple of sessions saturday afty

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Hey people, I'm doing some research into both the current usage of Open Source CMS by NGOs/NPOs working in Developing Countries and whether Joomla/other Open Source CMS' are being used as revenue generation tools in the developing world - through training local people to generate revenue as freelanc...

Hey people, We're going to be organizing a Joomla conference this summer in New York (Manhattan) and I thought to start the thread and feel out whether people think the end of June would work for them. Qasim./ Moderator note: it will be an official Joomla!Day just changed the title to have the wordi...

Hey people, I'm going to be going over the scheduling issues this week and expect to be able to announce a Joomla Conference in Toronto at the Centre for Social Innovation ( http://www.socialinnovation.ca ) at the end of April - trying to do it on April 28th & 29th so people in town for that it360 g...

Got the banner up on whyjoomla but now we need to sort out small sizes so mini fellows like me can wear these things!

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Cool, I'll post some more info on this thread early next week with a URL...

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For all you canucks out there, We're organising a Joomla conference in Toronto this April - looks like a lot of the feedback from my original announcement stuck to this thread so let's continue discussing it here! What do people think about having it in downtown Toronto the weekend of April 28th/29t...

Hey people, we've just launched a small community site to support a new publication by Echoing Green - a NYC based non-profit involved in social entrepreneurialism. Please check it out and let me know what you think! Website URL: m Joomla! version: 1.0.x Template: Bespoke Additional Extensions (Comp...

Good stuff!  Thanks for your dedication Wilco!

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Brilliant! civicCRM is definately the right choice for me then; I like the fact that it can be integrated into Joomla and extended with its own modules as well - I'm sure a lot of people would be interested in the upcoming mass mailer module particularily, since out homegrown solutions (Mamml/Letter...

Interesting, I would love to hear more about these projects! Personally I've lived in Kenya for 6 years and my firm, Design Guru, has done work for the IDRC's East and Southern Regional Office as well as some other NGOs and grassroots organisations in East Africa. Count us in, though I don't think w...

Okay, this might be a great time to pose the big question:

What really seperate CivicCRM and SugarCRM? 

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Hmm, true, I need to play around with it a bit, though what I like about a CRM system integration is that all entries in my database don't need to be part of my community - just vice versa you see.

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I'm considering an install of SugarCRM to mainly give my organisation a  good way of keeping track of contacts, and I like the fact that there is the simple integration with Joomla currently (which allows Joomla users to auto-insert into the Sugar contact db). However, the simplest way to do th...