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Wow, looks good.     Not sure if CiviCRM will do what I want, but here goes:

I'd like to create a website for a (inter)national support group with many local chapters.  For example, let's say I have a main site called:
  disability.org

They could have many local chapters, probably as subdomains for each location:
  phoenix.disability.org
  nederlands.disability.org
  etc.

There would be ongoing support group meetings, special meetings, conventions, etc.  So I'd like to have both an online calendar that shows the meetings, but also an email reminder that's sent out at user-configured intervals.  Perhaps once a month, every wednesday, every Tuesday and Friday, or only for special events, etc.

The email would have event reminders.  Some possible types of reminders:
- National events
- Special events in nearby large cities (specifically noted as worth attending by people not in the area.  There's no point in notifying people about an hour long event if it'll take them 2 hours to get there.)
- Events where a specific speaker is presenting
- Local ongoing events (monthly or weekly)

All of these events would be submitted by users and accepted by local/national moderators.

Looks like this isn't ready yet, but how close is it?  I came across the discussion for handling subgroups here: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,636.0.html

Basically, I need the subgroups ability, calendar/events ability and email ability.  CiviCRM apparently has two out of three, which isn't bad at all.  I'd probably pay for the development of this feature, but no, I don't have a heck of a lot of funds.  Or is there another CMS solution that might work better?

Thanks.

Lemonade

Dave,

Sounds really good.  How can I find out more about the status of that project without being a pest? 

Also, I there was this comment: "CiviMail does not have any permissioning / partitioning with regard to mailings. We will have to introduce some sort of permissioning/partitioning scheme to make this useful. Ideally a "mailing" follows the same rules as groups. A person can see a mailing if they have rights to see ALL the groups who are part of the mailing."

This excludes someone from the mailing entirely unless they're in all groups.  That seems unnecessarily restrictive.  What about the cases when you want to send a broadcast to multiple groups?  I don't know the whole story but it doesn't seem right.

Burton