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30 January 2015

Welcome to 2015, the European Year for Development

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Last Thursday - Jan 22nd - President Michael D. Higgins launched the European Year for Development at Dublin Castle, saying that "2015 is a seminal year for the future of human development". Dóchas, as national coordinator of the programme, said that they "intend to use the European Year to encourage people in Ireland to take action, and to think of themselves as change makers". Participate in the conversation at the #EYD2015 hashtag.

As Ireland's leading web development agency to the non-profilt and charity sector, Annertech plans to play our part by continuing to make as much of our code and knowledge as possible freely available for others to use. At the same time we will continue to work with our great clients in the development sector, clients such as Oxfam Ireland and Trócaire, to ensure that they can best make use of their digital tools.

Examples of some of our contributed code for the NGO sector includes:

  • Commerce Donate - which encourages people to make a donation while making a purchase in a charity's online store
  • Webform Conditional Confirmation Messages - this lets our clients personalise confirmation/thank you pages on webforms so our they can increase engagement with their users.
  • Commerce CiviCRM - a plugin that sends customer data to CiviCRM - the world's most popular open source CRM for NGOs and other non-profits
  • Commerce eCards - which creates eCards as shop products as an income generation stream for charities and others.

For knowledge sharing, we will continue to be regular and frequent attendees and speakers at open source conferences and events:

  • February, Mark and Anthony will be in attendance at DrupalCamp London, with Anthony in line to speak about "Creating WOW Factor with Drupal"
  • April, Mark and Gavin will attend Drupal Developer Days in France
  • May, we will sponsor/organise/speak at Drupal Open Days Ireland
  • August, a number of us will attend Front End United in Bristol
  • September, the whole team will travel to Barcelona for DrupalCon Europe
  • November, we will sponsor/organise/speak at Drupal Camp Ireland

Why the continued focus on open source? We believe a more open and transparent world will be a better and more secure world. We are happy to play our part to achieve this. We wish all participating people and organisations a very successful European Year for Development.

If you want to discuss Annertech helping you build an award-winning website, please feel free to contact us by phone on 01 524 0312, by email at hello@annertech.com, or using our contact form.

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