Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade AT creativecommons.org>]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 15:13, Micheas Herman <m AT micheas.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 13:22 -0400, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
>> Micheas,
>>
>> I gave a short presentation on this at the first CiviCon in 2010 in
>> San Francisco.  I'm not aware that there is really much interest in
>> this outside of CC.
>
>        I suspect that this is of interest to most small
>        non-profits/organizations that use paypal standard or google
>        checkout, as the process becomes way too clunky for the end
>        users as is.
>
>        I know of two organizations and an individual that will use it
>        after I am done testing it.
>
>        It seems that the Wikimedia foundation does something similar.
>        Or uses the same code?
>
>> I communicate with some of the core CiviCRM
>> developers from time to time, and I seriously doubt that any of the
>> "OneClick" code would be introduced into Civi's core.
>
>        But it could be introduced in the bin directory? no? There is
>        lots of poorly documented magic stuff in that directory. :)
>
>> The reason for
>> this is that it's such a radical departure from the way CiviContribute
>> normally handles contributions.  In order to work this in they would
>> have to seriously refactor the existing code, or provide some
>> either/or mechanism for users.
>
>        I am going to post it as a make it happen project as soon as
>        civcrm 4 is out. The improvement is  Civicrm that this makes is
>        huge.
>
>>
>> I have had some thoughts about trying to turn this into a CiviCRM
>> module so that it could be more easily implemented by others.  At the
>> moment, some of the configurations are hack-ish in nature and all must
>> be done directly in OneClick.class.php.  It would be nice if the
>> configs were done directly through CiviCRM's management console.  But
>> I guess I haven't had much motivation to do this because it works well
>> as-is for CC and I haven't seen that there is enough interest in it
>> generally for me to spend the time converting it to a module somehow.
>>
>> If you have any questions about the code, please feel free to write me 
>> directly.
>
>        Any reason why it should have problems with civicrm4? I am going
>        to test it tonight :)
>
>        Thanks again for your time, and code.
>
>        Micheas

Micheas,

Once you've tested the code, I'd be happy to hear about:

* how hard/easy it was to set up.

* any improvement that could be made in the documentation.  Also, feel
free to update that page directly on our wiki.

* who, other than yourself, who ends up using the code.

I don't think Wikimedia uses the OneClick code.  They do use CiviCRM
for some backend things, but as far as I know they don't use CiviCRM
with anything user-facing.  The Mozilla Foundation expressed some
interest in the OneClick system some months back, and I worked with
them, but they were on a tight deadline and were forced to use stock
CiviCRM contribution pages for now.

I suppose it's possible that CiviCRM could allow the inclusion of
those scripts in the /bin directory at some point.  I might be able to
talk the devs into it if they thought enough people had an interest in
it.

Thanks,

Nathan