Sessions
May 31 through June 8, 2016
Whether you're new to CiviCRM or a seasoned expert there is something for you at CiviCon Colorado 2016!
Complete session list
| Session | Description | More info | Room |
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| CiviCRM Everywhere: Leveraging a full coverage API for seamless CMS Integration |
We all know the power and utility that CiviCRM can bring to any organization, but are also painfully aware of its rough spots. By providing a full coverage API that is the single source of access to the data store, CiviCRM can be unleashed to be directly connected to native CRM tools, and be accessed by non-CRM tools alike. Instead of relying on... read more
with Jeremy Proffitt |
Audience: Community Discussion Type: Presentation |
322 |
| Session | Description | More info | Room |
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| The Future of the API |
For anyone that's developed an extension or other integration with CiviCRM, you know how important a good api is. CiviCRM's api version 3 is incredibly useful - it's mature, stable, tested, robust, and even has a handy gui explorer that writes code for you!
Great as it is, api v3 is now 5 years old, and while it may well last another 5 years... read more
with Coleman Watts, Eileen McNaughton |
Audience: Community Discussion Type: Workshop |
322 |
| Session | Description | More info | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Visual Vocabulary of CiviCRM |
It's a reflection of CiviCRM's success as a grassroots-driven open-source project that large sections of the software come from specific organizations' needs. However, visual elements--form layouts, icon use, text size, and so forth--can vary widely from component to component within CiviCRM.
Some work was done in 4.7 to make icon use more... read more
with Andrew Hunt |
Audience: Community Discussion Type: Workshop |
322 |
| Session | Description | More info | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| CiviCRM Statistics - charting the future |
The statistics portal (https://stats.civicrm.org) brings valuable indicators to all actors in the CiviCRM ecosystem – Core Team, partners, end-users and prospects. It is however just a start and we need to build on this robust foundation to:
•increase our understanding of the ecosystem,
•support our decision making progress,
•and act as a showcase... read more
with Nicolas Ganivet |
Audience: Community Discussion Type: Workshop |
322 |
| Session | Description | More info | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| CiviCRM Entity - Superior Drupal Integration |
CiviCRM Entity is a Drupal module which now exposes nearly 30 CiviCRM entities as true Drupal entities. That means that almost any module that uses the Entity API, can access and manipulate CiviCRM data, Drupal style. This includes many commonly used modules such as Views, Rules, Entity Reference, Entityqueue, Search API, Facet API, Display Suite... read more
with Mark Hanna |
Audience: Community Discussion Type: Presentation |
322 |
| Session | Description | More info | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| Improving the Extensions Ecosystem |
While very robust with more than 1,500 extensions created on top of CiviCRM, the extensions ecosystem is in dire need of improvements on the following points:
-Quality check / Vouching of extensions in the directory
-Maintenance of extensions once they have been released, including bug fixes and version upgrades
-Promotion of extensions to our end... read more
with Nicolas Ganivet |
Audience: Community Discussion Type: Discussion Group (BoF) |
322 |
| Session | Description | More info | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| How to contibute to the community when you are not a geek |
CiviCRM is created and supported by a passionate community of users and developers from around the world. You don’t need to be a geek to contribute to the project. Whatever your skills are, there are lots of ways that you can make yourself useful.
After a presentation of the existing ways to contribute as an end-user (register your site, improve... read more
with Virginie Ganivet |
Audience: Community Discussion Type: Presentation |
322 |
| Session | Description | More info | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| StackExchange: What's working, what's not, and how can we make it better? |
We moved our free user and admin support from the forum to http://civicrm.stackexchange.com in April 2015. The community is humming along nicely, but there are areas where we could likely be doing better. Join a discussion about what's working, what's not, and how we can improve the usefulness of our support space.
2016-03-18_17-39-33.... read more
with Joe Murray, Coleman Watts, Nicholai Burton |
Audience: Community Discussion Type: Discussion Group (BoF) |
322 |