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Hosted at Greater Manchester Centre for voluntary organisations from 2.00 to 4.30pm on Thursday 30 September.
This is an incomplete record of the meeting - please log in and add to it if you see something missing -thanks!
Attendees (incomplete)
- Peter Dunn - The IT Zone, new North West ICT Champion.
- Tony Molloy - Bolton Citizen's Advice Bureau
- Janet Ashton - Church Action on poverty
- Colleague of Janet Ashton - Church Action on poverty
- Phil Oakley - Outserve UK
- Iain Roberts - Axiom Tech
- Frederick Katumba - Black Health Agency
- Jane Lloyd - Greater Merseyside Change Up
- Oliver Gibson - Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisations
- Michael McAndrew - Third Sector Design / Voluntary Action Westminster
- Paul Webster NAVCA ICT officer and regional ICT champion co-ordinator
- Francesco Moretto - Algiusmi - University of Milan
- Dave Florence - Anthem IT at Voluntary Action Wakefield
- Jo - Anthem IT at Voluntary Action Wakefield
- Fynn Lewis - Ecobee
- Anne Abblet
- Steve Helme - Victoria Baths
- Nick Blundell - Illuminate ICT
- Matthew Shepherd - Illuminate ICT
- Tom Sharp - Engineers without borders
- Vincent Acheson - EMMS Nazareth
- Paul King - Autistic Society Greater Manchester Area
- Jo Smith - Salford CVS
Beginner Q and A
After a brief outline of CiviCRM key ideas, we had a Q and A on questions around functionality, flexibility, installation, hosting, etc.
Specific questions and answers included:
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Networking
We had a half hour break in the middle (it was 2.5 hours in total) where people errupted into conversation amongst themselves. As is often the case, it was a real shame to stop this and go back to the formalities of one-at-a-time speaking - a lot of connections were being made and experience shared in arguably a much more efficient and self organised way.
Presentation and demonstration from Francesco Moretto, Law Faculty, University of Milan
We were very lucky to have Francesco Moretto (who came over from Milan!) to give a presentation on his experiences of implementing and using CiviCRM 2.1 and also a tour of his installation for his university Law alumni association.
Features he had implemented included CiviEvent for automatically handling events and Google map integration to show addresses of contacts on maps.
Further discussions
A short discussion on how to best provide support, training, etc. for CiviCRM installations. Fynn from Ecobee supported idea of meeting again as developers. Nick Blundell asked potential organisations what concerns they had around open source as a software model and if developers could address them. Michael McAndrew talked about potential CiviCRM bootcamp for developers.
