When your CRM is a community effort

Every few weeks or so, there's a new update released for CiviCRM, WordPress, or Drupal.

These updates are made available at no cost. That's one of the great things about open-source software.

But here's another great thing:

All of the improvements in each new release come almost entirely from the minds and efforts of system owners like yourself.

There's no big corporation somewhere with a campus full of developers thinking up new ideas inside their giant echo chamber.

If you spot an improvement that's needed in one of your open source tools — a bug fix, a new feature, improvements to documentation, whatever — you can contribute that idea to the project and it could very well be there in the next release.

(And if you think it's worth it to you, you could also contribute or sponsor the actual work that's needed to make that improvement happen.)

This is the beauty of open source tools: Other people are improving your software at no cost to you, and now and then you have a chance to step in and make improvements too.

All the best,
A.