What this means for our clients
It has been a real pleasure to visit Canada and the city of Toronto for the first time for the 2026 CiviCRM Camp and Sprint.
CiviCamp Toronto was a seven-day community gathering and training event for CiviCRM users, held end of May, 2026 at Victoria College, University of Toronto.
The event featured administrator and developer training, a main conference day, and collaborative hack-a-thon sprints.
Toronto has been a brilliant setting for the event. It is a diverse, cosmopolitan city with great food, a relaxed atmosphere and a real sense of energy in the evenings. People gather in the streets, parks and squares, chatting in dozens of languages and making the city feel open, welcoming and full of life.
I have attended quite a few CiviCRM sprints over the years, and many have been residential. This one has felt a little different. Being in an urban setting, with people staying in different places across the city, has made the evenings slightly less intense. There has been less work stretching late into the night, but that has been a good thing. People have felt fresher in the mornings and, as a result, the sprint has been highly productive.
Across the week, we have made progress on a range of technical issues, closed several items from the backlog and contributed to discussions about the future roadmap. As always, a few new ideas and challenges have emerged along the way, which is part of what makes these events so valuable.
For Circle, taking part in events like this is an important part of our commitment to CiviCRM and the wider open source community. We have been working alongside other digital agencies, developers and community members to improve the platform, including enhancements to functionality, usability and the user interface.
That work matters. Every improvement helps make CiviCRM stronger, more practical and more effective for the charities, membership bodies and non-profit organisations that rely on it every day.
The sprint has also been a reminder of something simple but important: community works best when people have time together. Meeting in person gives us space to share experiences, discuss challenges, build trust and have conversations that are much harder to replicate online.
Working together, going for walks, sharing meals and having a drink at the end of the day all help to strengthen the relationships behind the software. They make the online collaboration better, because the people behind the messages, issues and pull requests feel more connected.
Ultimately, while we spend much of our time writing, installing and configuring software, this work is really about people. It is about the organisations using CiviCRM, the communities they serve and the people across the world who keep improving the tools they depend on.
That is what makes events like the CiviCRM Camp and Sprint so worthwhile.
Dave Moreton June 2026
