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scedwar

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CiviCRM History and Background
September 26, 2007, 02:05:21 am
(from another thread)

Quote from: Dave Greenberg on September 25, 2007, 05:52:29 pm
We don't have a "history" page - I guess we need a historian :-). The closest to it would be our 2006 Year-end Report linked from here:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Home

The project was started by Donald Lobo and myself ~3 years ago, after working together at Groundspring.org - and realizing that there was a need for an open-source solution in the NPO/NGO/eAdvocacy space.

I'd love to see a page explaining some background to CiviCRM. This is an amazing system and I'd love to know how it got off the ground and how it continues to develop. I'm sure there must be many projects wondering how CiviCRM has come to be so polished and supported.

You don't even have a wikipedia page!
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CiviCRM&action=edit

Thanks for all your efforts - I'm sure a lot of people are very grateful for CiviCRM.

Stephen

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Re: CiviCRM History and Background
September 26, 2007, 12:32:49 pm
Put up a very basic page with some of the history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiviCRM
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Re: CiviCRM History and Background
September 26, 2007, 02:09:15 pm
David - thx for doing this. Unfortunately I just took an peek and the page is "marked for speedy deletion" because "it is an article about a company or corporation that does not assert the importance or significance of the subject."

One of the reasons I hadn't created an entry previously is not being clear about how to make it not "self-promotional" and hence not acceptable.

I'm thinking we need some of our users to pipe in and "explain" why there should be a CiviCRM page and perhaps flesh it out a bit from the community perspective.
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Re: CiviCRM History and Background
September 26, 2007, 04:45:55 pm
Oops. I'll just put it on a wiki page...
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Re: CiviCRM History and Background
September 26, 2007, 04:49:50 pm
We've been deleted 3 separate times from Wikipedia over the last 10 months. Interesting. If anyone in the community wants to champion getting a CiviCRM page up, feel free.
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scedwar

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Re: CiviCRM History and Background
October 02, 2007, 04:26:22 pm
This page references a CiviCRM page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CivicSpace

I really don't understand the logic of deleting the CiviCRM page.

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Re: CiviCRM History and Background
October 03, 2007, 02:58:02 pm
There's some info at http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/FAQ#FAQ-general
Particularly "How has CiviCRM evolved and grown?" -- http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/How+Evolved

David Geilhufe, How about posting what you have in the CiviCRM FAQ while someone familiar with how to get it into Wikipedia works on that part. You could put it in as a replacement for How+Evolved and call it History, which makes more sense.

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Re: CiviCRM History and Background
November 30, 2007, 12:35:38 pm
Many people may be interested in the CiviCRM business model.  I've certainly never seen an open source application like CiviCRM with the sophistication, documentation and discussion forums.   I don't see a donate button anyplace.

Why is CiviCRM so different in its level of sophistication?

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Re: CiviCRM History and Background
April 06, 2011, 06:53:53 pm
Any development on this topic?  Anyone working this actively?  I'd like to help...

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Re: CiviCRM History and Background
April 06, 2011, 08:08:19 pm

there is a very large contribute program which drives development of the project:

check

http://civicrm.org/mih

contribute now!, contribute often :)

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Re: CiviCRM History and Background
September 23, 2013, 11:47:45 am
BTW, was some of the early source for CiviMail or CiviContribute brought over from Groundspring, or just ideas?
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Re: CiviCRM History and Background
September 24, 2013, 11:58:50 am
I'm also interested in the answer to Joe's question!

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Re: CiviCRM History and Background
September 24, 2013, 12:05:16 pm

The early source for CiviMail or CiviContribute was not brought over from groundspring.

However we used the same LAMP stack at groundspring and also the same set of pear packages (smarty, quickform et al)

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Re: CiviCRM History and Background
October 22, 2013, 01:13:07 pm
I'm also interested in info on how decisions get made. Are there any docs about that? (I'm taking a class on open collaboration and peer production, and as part of that I am contributing to Civi documentation and also doing some research and reporting to the class about my participation). I've looked for more year-end reports, looked on the developer wiki, and searched the forums.  Any info would be much appreciated!


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