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My experience with Drupal and CiviCRM

I created my first production Drupal website in Summer 2008. For various reasons I'm not a big fan of PHP so I dreaded the thought at first. It took some time to get accustomed to the Drupal way but it was already really easy to set up basic websites.

In the course of 2009 I've created many more websites and I started.

Right in the beginning I tried contributing back to the project but the structure of drupal.org wasn't very clear to me yet. In early 2010 I got excited again about giving back some code and more ideas.

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code

Some projects that I've contributed code to, available under free software licenses:
  • trustlet, analysis of trust metrics, Python, NetworkX, numpy
  • wik2dict, converter of MediaWiki dumps into the DICT format, currently in the trustlet codebase, Python
  • BeWelcome, hospitality exchange software, PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS
  • Crash at Mine, hospitality exchange, PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS
  • Kasper Souren -->

wik2dict

wik2dict is a tool I wrote in Python. It converts MediaWiki SQL dumps into the DICT format.

I'm not actively maintaining this anymore, Aard Dictionary seems the way to go.

wik2dict project at Google Code

Ads are back - this time FLOSS only though!

Submitted by Kasper Souren on February 23, 2010 - 20:53

This month I found out about the free software advertising network. I took the opportunity of moving my blog to Drupal to add ads for ethical computing, approved by the Free Software Foundation: "The Free Software Community now has an ethical alternative to ad networks that promote proprietary software".

Damn, I'm even tempted to click on these ads myself!

I'm going to FOSDEM

Submitted by Kasper Souren on February 1, 2010 - 01:06
I'm going to FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting

Adding Group overview to CiviCRM contact summary page

Submitted by Kasper Souren on January 6, 2010 - 15:44
Intal's CiviCRM needed some customizations. So I delved into CiviCRM's templating system, which is based on smarty.

A job?! And, time tracking in Drupal?

Submitted by Kasper Souren on December 10, 2009 - 19:06
I'm looking for a decent time tracking tool for Drupal, both for my freelance work as well for my employer, Intal. Briefly, Intal is an NGO working with partner NGOs in many countries (and places), among which Philippines, Congo, Gaza, Cuba and Colombia, in the fields of health care, development, peace and human rights.

Drupal Camp Ghent 2009

Submitted by Kasper Souren on November 19, 2009 - 22:39
I'm going to Drupal Camp Ghent 2009 11th and 12th of December.

Hitchwiki everywhere

Submitted by Kasper Souren on October 26, 2009 - 21:46
"Aard Dictionary is a multiplatform dictionary and offline Wikipedia reader. It runs on desktop computers, notebooks and netbooks with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X as well as Nokia Internet Tablets (N800 and N810) and anywhere Python, PyGTK and ICU are available.

Wanted: Wireless Researcher for project in Dharamsala, India

Submitted by Kasper Souren on August 31, 2009 - 12:10
In 2005 I spent some time ICT volunteering for Geekcorp Mali.  And in 2001 I traveled in India and had a great time in the North.  Now, a ICT volunteer is actually needed in Dharamsala.  Contact me if you have the skills, time and you feel like an amazing experience:
AirJaldi, a nonprofit dedicated to harnessing the capabilities of the internet for the benefit of rural communities in developing countries, is looking for a highly-motivated and experienced person to take a central role in carrying out an innovative research project aimed at d
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