CiviCRM Community Forums (archive)

We are redesigning the website for a group of independent writers, designers, and others in the communication field. The current website is at icatriangle.org; it is built in drupal. We also have a yahoo group which is what we use for email; although we have events posted on our site we also promote them on meetup.com and have people rsvp there.

We'd like to consolidate the events so that we use meetup only for promotion, but have rsvp and payment on icatriangle.org. We also want to get out of using the yahoo group for email, and add an email sign-up on the site. We don't have very elaborate list management needs but would need to distinguish between members and non-members in email.

I'm wondering if civiCRM is worth checking out, or if we're better off just adding some other drupal modules to meet our needs. We don't have to track fundraising and contributions. We also have some features now that I wouldn't want to lose: e.g., we can enter events for other organizations on our calendar, not just our own (hopefully we'll switch this soon to rss feeds), and our member profiles are customized with cck and views. We plan to add other features to them soon, including member photos and status updates.

We are going to be changing web hosts anyway so that won't be an issue.

Any thoughts?

(If you are considering replying in order to offer your services, please be aware that this is a 100% volunteer effort. We have zero funds to hire a developer or consultant.)