SalesForce Archives - Identity Woman

I wrote in my post about DreamForce conference about SalesForce.com that I met.

Khadijah from MassCOSH (the Massachusets Coalition for Ocupational Saftey and Health). She had a great story of frustration that speaks to the reality…she went with Drupal and and was optimistic about the potential of the platform but was totally disappointed by the tool and the ability to MAKE IT WORK well for her organizational context. As she said we are hoping this group of 19 year old developers will improve the platform…Well the fact is they haven’t really done it and disappointed a lot of folks. (I had high hopes too invested some money in customizing it for my constituents..but it never really got there). She was like SalesForce saved my ass. It is so good and I can get my 8 staff who need to use it to use it. She believes in open source still but needs it to work now…SalesForce solves that problem.

I like David Geilhufe and all that I have heard good things about CiviCRM a project he founded. I have heard developers I trust say “it is one of the best run open source projects I have ever seen.” He moved over from that project to CivicSpace and I have some hope that the fire an be stoked so the dream can be a reality.

The dream of “19 year old developers” meeting the needs of 1M+ nonprofits and a far greater number of civic and political groups is over. Now there are real companies, seasoned leaders, senior developers and private capital backing the dream.
CivicSpace reorganized in May That is why we now have CivicSpace On Demand in BETA. No downloads, no need to understand MySQL and Apache, just a focus on making complex open source work for regular people.
And that is why you will see us slowly stoke the fire that is the dream over the next years… highly affordable, nonprofit-centric open source solutions delivered by a sustainable ecology. The perfect solution isn’t here today. But with a community of supporters, a pretty great open source solution will be here tomorrow.
David Geilhufe
Managing Partner, CivicSpace

This is going to be a fun week. I was up at Iovation the last week of September. They invited Placial and JanRain over to talk Identity at the end of my day with them. They are integrating OpenID into one of the products they are showing at DreamForce. This inspired me to go and check out the show. I applied for a Press Pass and got one (I guess the dig bloggers)…the best part of this whole story was that on the application I listed my Title: Super Hero and Company: Identity Woman.
Dick Hardt is also talking there on Monday in the IT Executive Track. This is the description of the talk:

Identity 2.0 and Salesforce
When thinking of identity and salesforce.com, several things come to mind: users logging into salesforce.com; the customer data stored in the application; and customers logging into the self service portal. Learn how all three of these are related with the emerging Internet Identity Infrastructure known as Identity 2.0, as well as what salesforce.com customers are doing today in identity management.

On Wednesday I will be Talking at Office 2.0 on a panel about open standards. I had the dubious honor of being the original ‘only woman’ speaking (out of 54) until the women bloggers had a little uproar about that. Now there are 7 on the program.
Thursday I am heading up to Seattle to meet with Cordance and other Seattle business. I will be there all weekend and returning on Tuesday the 17th. I am open to coalescing a dinner in Seattle if there is demand. E-mail me to let me know.

David Geilhufe's Drupal response

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