Schedule for developer

Thursday
9:30 am to 10:30 am

Session Description
Welcome to CiviCon and Keynote

We'll kick off the day with recognition and thanks for the sponsors and volunteers that made this day possible followed by the state of the CiviCRM project. Then Thijs van Praag, the CEO of PUM Netherlands senior experts, will deliver the conference keynote address. 

with Joshua Gowens, Thijs van Praag, the CEO of PUM Netherlands senior experts

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Thursday
10:30 am to 11:30 am

Session Description
Using CiviRules at MAF Norge

I will show you what we have done with the CiviRules extension at MAF Norge and take you through what needs to be done to create your own specific conditions and actions. CiviRules is an extension that can help organizations to automate their backoffice workflow. For example MAF Norge have automated their specific Thank You process, where a donor...

with Erik Hommel

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What's new in CiviCRM 4.6 and coming in 4.7

What does 4.6 have that previous versions don't? What's cool in 4.6 that you may not have tried yet. This user-oriented session will explain in plain language (with examples) the better known and lesser known features that 4.6 and 4.7 introduce to CiviCRM.

with Kurund Jalmi

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Thursday
11:45 am to 12:45 pm

Session Description
Bootstrapping CiviCRM development

This session is intended for the wanna be CiviCRM developers / advanced implementors who wants to learn basic on CiviCRM development.   * Setting a development environment.  * Using the code generator, civix.  * Working with the Civi AJAX API  * Updating existing pages

with Kurund Jalmi

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Thursday
12:45 pm to 1:45 pm

Session Description
Lunch - sponsored by Google

Big thank you to Google for sponsoring this lunch

with n/a

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Thursday
1:45 pm to 2:00 pm

Session Description
Group Photograph

Photographs in the Main Hall of all conference attendees

with n/a

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Thursday
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Session Description
Extension showcase

In this session several people will show extensions they have worked and are proud of.  And which might be usefull for the community.  Jamie Novick CiviTask A tasks and assignment extension based on CiviCRM activities, with a slick and easy to use user interface, originally developed for CiviHR but compatible with Civi4.5+. Simple Mail A...

with Jamie Novick, Martin Hawksey, Martin Perth, Valerie Davo, Ilja de Coster

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Thursday
3:15 pm to 4:15 pm

Session Description
CiviProxy (Enhanced Security for CiviCRM)

CiviProxy aims at improving CiviCRM's security by channelling inbound trafficthrough a custom proxy server that will only relay selected (white-listed),sanitised requests. The CiviCRM server itself would only be accessible viaVPN, thus significantly reducing the risk of attacks. CiviProxy is capable of processing several CiviCRM online features,...

with Björn Endres

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Thursday
4:15 pm to 5:15 pm

Session Description
CiviAccounting

Beginning in release 4.3 of CiviCRM, a much more robust methodology for tracking and exporting financial data was introduced. Now it is easier than ever to have CiviCRM track contributions and other financial transactions the way fundraisers want to see them, but at the same time easily export that financial information the way the accountants...

with Jamie Novick

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CiviCRM and Wordpress - How integrated are they?

We will show and discuss an actual instance of WordPress-CiviCRM integration.Specifically, integration between CiviCRM and Commons in a Box, showing how CiviCRM can be used to track and enhance community activity.http://commonsinabox.org/ This will involve showing how the current suite of sync plugins function: https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/...

with Christian Wach

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Thursday
5:15 pm to 10:00 pm

Session Description
Party

Party at the Coronet pub/Wetherspoons

with n/a

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Friday
9:30 am to 10:30 am

Session Description
The CiviCRM API

This session is aimed at developers that have not used the CiviCRM API before or have just started using the API. We will explain the basic principles of using the CiviCRM API. There will be a couple of examples of how we have used the API to change CiviCRM templates, retrieve or create entities, keep different databases synchronized or...

with Alain Benbassat

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The CiviCRM Roadmap

Three reasons to come to this session. 1) To find out what we have planned for the upcoming releases of CiviCRM. 2) To find out how we construct the CiviCRM roadmap, in other words, how we prioritize features, how we decide what will make it into each new release of CiviCRM. 3) How you can get the functionality you need included in an upcoming...

with Michael McAndrew

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Friday
10:30 am to 11:15 am

Session Description
Birds of a Feather Sessions

"Birds of a Feather" groups are self-organised discussions about topics of mutual interest. Participants will be posting discussion topics during the morning and then attendees can join a group based on their interests. In prior conferences, sessions have included: Social media and CiviCRM Documentation working group User to user support (forums...

with n/a

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Friday
11:30 am to 12:30 pm

Session Description
Creating Dynamic UIs with Civi and Angular

The Javascript world has been evolving at a dizzying pace, and recent versions of CiviCRM introduce rich UI's based on AngularJS. In this session, we'll create a new extension in Civi using AngularJS. Along the way, we'll touch on key concepts in each system, e.g. * Generating a quick starter project.* Creating routes and directives.* Using live...

with Tim Otten

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Data Protection for CiviCRM developers and users

All organisations have Data Protection responsibilities, and much of the relevant data is likely to be stored in CiviCRM. As a developer, if you are aware of the Data Protection requirements you can do a lot to help your clients comply with the minimum of fuss. As a user, you must understand what you can and can't record, what you are allowed to...

with Paul Ticher

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Friday
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Session Description
Lunch

Lunch

with n/a

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Friday
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Session Description
Lightning talks

A Lightning Talk is a short presentation. Unlike other presentations, they only last a few minutes and we will deliver them in a single period by different speakers. Do you have a feature you'd like to talk about? Something interesting and special you have done in your organisation with CiviCRM? Want to share a case study of a success, or...

with Kester Muller (Not Forgotten Association), Martin Perth (Systopia), Björn Endres (Systopia), Chris Morley (Bloodwise), Alex Corr (Cambridge University), Parvesh (Veda Consulting)

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Friday
3:15 pm to 4:15 pm

Session Description
CiviConnect: How do we end the scavanger hunt?

CiviCRM sits in the middle - exchanging data with your CMS, payment processor, email service, SMS service, spreadsheets, ad nauseum. CiviCRM is also extremely flexible - supporting multiple CMSs, multiple payment processors, multiple email providers, multiple SMS providers, ad nauseum. These are great power features, but they also come with a cost...

with Tim Otten

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Friday
4:15 pm to 4:30 pm

Session Description
Closing Session

The conference closing session

with Michael McAndrew

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