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I'm in the planing stage of a new website which will be a mixture of a commercial and community site and am wondering if CiviCRM is the right thing to use with Drupal.

The basic plan is that we'll be offering a subscription based membership (with several levels) which will allow members to gain access to business class support for green/ethical organisations. The members will gain access to a wide range of resources, training, documents and skills.

Members will need to be able to have their own "homepage" within the member's section, through which they can promote their own skills and services. This may also need to be a public-facing "homepage" for each for them too, we're still deciding upon that.

Event/course management will also be an important part of the site, allowing members and non-members to sign up for events and courses. Some will be for members only, others for anyone, but with reduced rates for members.

We're also going to have a blog but will also want to provide that feature to members too.

I've done an install of CiviCRM on my local test server and the first look at it was, OMG!!  But I'm sure that's just because it looks so different to Drupal at first glance.

Part fo the problem for my decision comes from not having the final model sorted yet!

Would welcome thoughts and comments.

Ta
Dan

Ok thanks for the feedback.  Sounds like it's definitely worth me investigating more, even if it's not quite as part of Drupal as I thought it was.