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OK this is something that I have always wanted from a contact manager

1. the ability to receive reminders of individuals birthdays
2. the ability to receive reminders of anniversaries (belongs to a family)
3. the ability to receive reminders of "custom" anniversaries ie. anniversary of joining site/organization etc (less important)

I think this could be done by integrating two existing drupal modules

http://drupal.org/project/birthdays
http://drupal.org/project/postcard

Using these modules it would be quite easy to go beyond organizing our contacts to communicating with them in a more personal way.

so my question is this should this be added to civicrm core or just done by patching the modules themselves
I think adding them to core is the way to go as joomla doesn't really have a good birthday extension

I have already submitted this on the birthday modules issues page

http://drupal.org/node/149261

but am thinking building into civicrm core makes more sense

Give me some feed back on what you all think

Thanks
Craig Bertrand

OK if this is simply added to the birthdays module

1. check if civicrm is installed
2. use the id and birth_date fields in the civicrm_individual table

how would that work with separate civicrm and drupal data bases
would that be a problem or not?

thanks now I have a direction to learn in