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It's been a while since I've blogged on Project IMPACT but I have big news today!
First off, the International Secretariat of Amnesty has officially chosen Drupal and CiviCRM as the Web CMS and eCRM platforms it will invest in and build its Web infrastructure on going forward — a very big thanks to the great people at Beaconfire for helping to make that happen :)
Next, we're now well underway with the re-architecture phase of the project, having contracted user-centred design, website accessibility and information architecture experts Fortune Cookie to take us through an intensive re-architecture process, the output of which (among other things) will be a (user-tested!) user interface specification to start with in the next phase of the project.
Which brings me to this:
IMPACT – Technical Development RFP (43 KB)
We're now looking for a dedicated team of 3-5 experienced Drupal/CiviCRM developers to work with us over the next 6 months on this challenging and extremely important project. The deadline for expressions of interest is Friday, April 20 at 09:00 GMT and the rest of the submission details are in the document.
Please let me know if you have any questions at all re the RFP and please pass it on to development vendors you think might be interested :)
Thanks!
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U.S. PIRG is launching a program this summer called Code for Change. It's basically a software development internship for students and recent grads who want to use their skills to work on the software that organizations like ours use to do online organizing.
This summer we're working with CiviCRM, and will be adding a few different features to it (with the goal of U.S. PIRG adopting CiviCRM after we finish). We should compare notes to see where there is some overlap between our two projects and coordinate.
Posted by: Wes Morgan at April 15, 2007 05:33 AMHi Wes - thanks for your comment. And we should definitely keep in touch. Would love to hear more about the features you plan to add to CiviCRM. I'll post our initial product backlog here (our list of prioritised requirements) once it's been developed (very shortly) and then monthly as it's re-prioritised throughout our development phase. If there's an opportunity for sharing stuff, I'm all for it :)
Posted by: Rob Purdie at April 15, 2007 10:20 AMHi Rob,
Our company would be interested in receiving your RFP. We are Drupal design/development experts and are presently working on 5 social networking sites that we're building in Drupal. We have also worked with civicrm and with multi-language sites and are web standards advocates. We have 8 full timers on our team. A number of our clients are non profit organizations and our team has extensive experience in that area. Let me know if you'd like more info.
thanks,
Glenn
Posted by: Glenn Hilton at April 16, 2007 11:20 PMHi Glenn - that all sounds awesome, and you can grab the RFP here. Expressions of interest (i.e. an email to me saying you intend to submit a proposal) are due at the end of this week, proposals are due at the end of next week :)
Posted by: Rob Purdie at April 17, 2007 12:44 PMAgaric Design Collective is too busy to respond to this exciting RFP, but we do have some experience with implementing Drupal plus CiviCRM and CiviMail and a strong interest in refining and improving both (and we owe a client a versatile newsletter sign-up block), so we'll try to stay in the loop (I guess by checking here) and feel free to call on us for piece work.
Posted by: Benjamin Melançon at April 18, 2007 11:32 AM
