Monday, June 18, 2007

Code for Change Week 3

We started Week 3 of our program today. This week we'll be focusing on integrating OpenID authentication into CiviCRM and WebGUI so that one login can be used for both systems (and many others, since OpenID is a universal login system).

Last week we released a version of CiviCRM that can be used by itself (i.e. without Drupal or Joomla). The big missing piece now is an authentication system, because normally CiviCRM relies on Drupal's or Joomla's login system. We'll be filling that gap this week and releasing it on Friday.

Once all this is in place, we'll start working on adding some pretty cool features to CiviCRM. One of the first things we'll be doing is going through its action tracking and list segmentation features and seeing what needs to be added to allow it to be used by U.S. PIRG for all our online organizing work. This will make CiviCRM an even more powerful system for all groups that use it (or will start using it in the future).

1 comment:

lobotomy42 said...

So, are your changes going to be re-integrated into the main branch of Civi CRM, or are you guys working on a fork?