Hi
all,
This is my last contribution to the open source community. Thanks to the brilliant support from Galette's team.
All started after I needed to find an open source membership management web application for a small community where I volunteer to help. We needed a solution to track the members, payments and all about managing a community. Something better and more practical than the impressive Excel file that we where using at the very first days.
My first step was to import that excel file, a list of names and emails to a new Google account. That account helped us to manage contacts in a better way, where we could edit and arrange data in a more human way, also it was possible to collaborate and work as a team.
That Gmail account was a temporal solution anyway, something in between an Excel file and a proper web application to manage memberships. I carried out a quick research about CRMs, membership applications and so on. I found many, far to many, but most of them not open source, so easy to cut the list.
This is my last contribution to the open source community. Thanks to the brilliant support from Galette's team.
All started after I needed to find an open source membership management web application for a small community where I volunteer to help. We needed a solution to track the members, payments and all about managing a community. Something better and more practical than the impressive Excel file that we where using at the very first days.
My first step was to import that excel file, a list of names and emails to a new Google account. That account helped us to manage contacts in a better way, where we could edit and arrange data in a more human way, also it was possible to collaborate and work as a team.
That Gmail account was a temporal solution anyway, something in between an Excel file and a proper web application to manage memberships. I carried out a quick research about CRMs, membership applications and so on. I found many, far to many, but most of them not open source, so easy to cut the list.
We
needed something simple, without one thousand tools and
functionalities where the user gets lost, open source and well
developed in order to be extended as required.
I was very happy to find Galette, an open source solution developed in France by a team leaded by Cwiklinski Johan. Even all documentation is almost in French, I had a great support from Johan and other members in order to help me to develop a plugin that connects to Google and imports all the contacts of a given group. This is just a first version of the plugin and I am willing to spend more time developing some improvements.
I was very happy to find Galette, an open source solution developed in France by a team leaded by Cwiklinski Johan. Even all documentation is almost in French, I had a great support from Johan and other members in order to help me to develop a plugin that connects to Google and imports all the contacts of a given group. This is just a first version of the plugin and I am willing to spend more time developing some improvements.
If
you need any help about this plugin or about how to use Google OAuth
2.0 in PHP just write me a comment and I get in touch with you as
soon as I have time to reply.
This
is the link to repository, for now all documentation is in a text
file, I will work on proper documentaion in Galette's web site later
on.
https://bitbucket.org/trashy/galette-import-google-contacts
That is all, thanks for reading,
Posted by Marc Andreu.
https://bitbucket.org/trashy/galette-import-google-contacts
That is all, thanks for reading,
Posted by Marc Andreu.
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