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If I understand this right, CiviCRM currently requires Joomla or Drupal, but a standalone version is under "intensive" development.  How can we find out more about the standalone version and who is working on it?

We are currently using a custom build email management system and I have been looking at phplist for email management.  However, what we really need is a member management open source application with extensive targeting for email management.

It there any point in downloading the Joomla or Drupal versions and trying to strip their integration out?

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After rethinking this, member management is also only part.  www.HealthCareForAllColorado.org is a Single-Payer Universal Health Care advocacy group.  We do have members, but also have a list of people that just wish to be kept informed.  We are moving from information to action and thus may need to do things like get all the nurses in a certain zip code that have indicated a willingness to visit a certain  political candidate. 

phplist does not seem to do enough on the management side and SugarCRM might be too much.

Ideas - thanks.

...and to actually answer your question, Civi Stand-alone was worked on by Code for Change this summer. I don't know how stable it is. I never heard a lot of confidence about it's actual use, which is why I recommmend just doing a barebones Drupal install.

-Matt

I heartily endorse the new CiviCRM installer. Thanks Lobo!

As a low-technical-skill user, my installs failed more often than not. Got it done in 10 minutes with the installer!