CiviCRM
CMS Ecumenism or "How Drupal Plays Well With Others"
Ecumenism means:
In its broadest meaning, ecumenism refers to initiatives aimed at worldwide religious unity. It is understood in this sense in the vision that advocates a greater shared spirituality across Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths as part of its core beliefs.
In this session, I'd like to share experiences of combining the strengths of Drupal with other CMS's. In my experience, the design of Drupal's code means that it plays surprisingly well with others.
Three general strategies are:
Engage your constituency with CiviCRM
CiviCRM is a CRM (client relationship management) module for Drupal. As a Drupal module it's huge (more code that Drupal core) and demanding (memory, processor), and it looks funny. Well, that's because it's not really a Drupal module, it just exposes itself to Drupal using some of Drupal's clever glue ("hooks"). In fact, CiviCRM has its own goals, development team, mysql database and philosophy that's quite different from Drupal. It even works with another CMS (Joomla/Mambo).
Mike Gifford
