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Hi all,
After several smaller implementations I'm glad to share with you all that we got us our first 'big' project.
The organisation has agreed to be our pilot for an implementation in the social and cultural sector
They are prepared to share the documentation i create for them with the community, and I have a strong feeling they would be willing to share their "user experience" during demos for other organisations, perhaps even user groups in Belgium. In short, the management team was sold for CiviCRM even before I started
It is a national federation with about 250 member organizations.
Contactmanagement, CiviCase and CiviReport will be the major parts that they will be using.

The project will start in april.
One part of the project is migrating the existing Joomla site to Drupal.
The site doesn't require any additional  modules besides CCK and Views. Since CCK is in D7 core and views is D7 ready, my first decision is to go with D7. But ... yep ... CiviCRM for D7 is in alpha

I would hate to create a site and civicrm implementation in D6, give the employees training, and after a few months upgrade to D7.
when i look at the roadmap for CiviCRM i see a stable release planned for late april.
Is this timeline still accurate? Should i convince the organization to wait for a stable release and start with D7, or just go for D6 and upgrade the next year?

Any advice is welcome!
thanks in advance and have a great day!
Johan.

since the project is starting in april, i'd go with D7 / Civi 4.0 and avoid the upgrade hassle

4.0 is still on track, the release should go beta next week

thats great news, would be great if you can blog about it and describe the scope of the project. Would also be great if you can help train / educate folks in that organization to be "part" of the community and give back

lobo