Vision v-Next
Friday, July 15, 2005, 01:22 PM - News
We've been going through the book of Nehemiah at church, and as usual, I'm able to relate his wall with a building project of my own. A few years ago I got involved as an usher at my church. One thing quickly lead to another and I was soon asked to use my experience to program a scheduling system for our ushering team...As I got more involved, I was saddened as I discovered the sad state of software and sharing amongst the Church. I prayed, and am thoroughly convinced that God planted a vision within me. Since I have a fairly deep dislike for money, but really enjoy giving, it made a lot of sense to me: open-source church software. It's a tall order and has its complications, but I have come to discover this vision is shared by others involved with church IT across the nation.
This week I returned from my vacation and received some bad news. A software collaboration deal I was helping to shape had fallen through due to complications with legalese. Before I left for vacation it seemed we would soon have an excellent framework (written by another AZ church) from which to develop ministry-based software that could be shared freely with the world. Needless to say I was more than bummed.
Then my disappointment turned to excitement as I got word that Microsoft had announced that their CRM was skipping v2.0 and would instead move to 3.0 and incorporate many sought after changes. I just finished watching two TechEd webcasts covering the upcoming features. I'm now in the process of recasting my vision and will report back shortly.
Monday, August 15, 2005, 07:21 PM
Here are two links to the TechEd presentations on CRM 3.0 (called v-next at the time of the presentation)CRM 3.0 Deep Dive
CRM 3.0 Customize, Extend, Integrate
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