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Alan Dixon

Implementor, Developer, Administrator

Blackfly Solutions

http://blackflysolutions.ca/

We recommend and use CiviCRM with most of our clients, and have since 2005. It's got a fantastic collection of functionality that fits the needs of non-profit organization communications, and the CiviCRM community of developers and users is growing, broad, vibrant and responsive.

The best part? When I describe to potential new converts how all of their constituent relations (donations, membership, mass emails, etc.) can be managed with a single integrated, configurable tool, I can hear an incredible yearning at the other end of the phone.

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Alice Aguilar

Implementor

Progressive Technology Project

http://progressivetech.org

The organizations we work with are experiencing the benefits of a robust tool that is
easy to use, supports their work, and allows them to collect and track data from various parts of their organization, such as membership, fundraising, communications, and organizing into a centralized database. CiviCRM as an open-source solution also allows us to nurture and build a user community to share and create a common vision of future features that would be useful to the community organizing field. Just two years after our pilot project, we're currently supporting 30 community organizing groups to use CiviCRM, and the community is steadily growing.

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Michal Mach

Core Team Member, Developer, Implementor

CiviCRM, Caltha

http://civicrm.org

I've always been passionate about what non-profits and advocacy groups can achieve using technology. For me, CiviCRM shows an essential example of how non-profit and technology worlds can come together to provide real change - working as community, creating value for yourself, but also for others in non-profit sector.

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Jamie Novick

Implementor / Developer

Compucorp Ltd

http://www.compucorp.co.uk

From fundraising websites which really connect you with your donors to essential tools for care organisations to manage their data, Civi has allowed us to do some amazing things for our clients. It's such a flexible platform and has such a great community which we're proud to be a part of.

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Jamie McClelland

DEVELOPER AND IMPLEMENTER

PROGRESSIVE TECHNOLOGY PROJECT

http://progressivetech.org
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Guy Iaccarino

Consultant, Administrator, End User

Greenleaf Advancement

http://greenleafadvancement.com

Greenleaf Advancement hosts, implements, supports, and provides training for CiviCRM. We take great pride in our role in helping nonprofits advance their mission. Combining our backgrounds in fundraising and technology, we are focused on helping organizations use CiviCRM to connect with their supporters and improve their fundraising results. Doing this as part of a vibrant open source community is in keeping with our belief that success overall only matters if we don't leave others behind.

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Joe Murray

Consultant, Implementor, Developer, Trainer

JMA Consulting

CiviCRM is a great solution for non-profits looking to integrate their fundraising, event, membership, grant and email management systems. JMA Consulting is a leader in developing extensions and core contributions for CiviCRM.

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Paul Keogan

Implementor

BackOfficeThinking

http://www.backofficethinking.com

CiviCRM allows us to bring all benefits and capabilities of a large commercial CRM and
donor management system to medium and large non-profits at a fraction of the cost. CiviCRM also allows smaller non-profits to benefit from an integrated solution for donor management, events, bulk email, etc. substantially increasing their effectiveness as compared to managing a variety of nonintegrated software and spreadsheets. Thanks to a strong CiviCRM community, CiviCRM’s functionality continues to advance and CiviCRM’s market continues to grow rapidly.

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Amy Bucaida

Administrator

Missouri Credit Union Association

http://www.mcua.org

We are a full CiviCRM install with Drupal.

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Eileen McNaughton

Developer and End-user

Fuzion

http://fuzion.co.nz

CiviCRM has one of the most active and friendliest communities I have come across. From initial tentative forum posts I was encouraged into engaging more actively through IRC and directly with other groups & individuals and am now happy to count many community members as friends. I recently found an article on the web that said if you post a question about CiviCRM anywhere on the web Lobo will post an answer within a few hours. It often feels like that is true.

One of the most valuable way in which the community supports me is by allowing me to bounce my ideas around and often someone is able to suggest an approach which is better than mine.

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Merlise Clyde

End-user, administrator

International Society of Bayesian Analysis

http://bayesian.org

ISBA is an international non-profit society with members from all over the world. We have sections that represent different scientific areas and chapters that represent different regions of the world. Civi Member powers our membership system! We use CiviEvent for Conference and Workship registration, and utilize CiviPetition for creating new sections to our society through member petitions. We are epxloring how CiviGrants can be used to track our travel awards and look forward to features for integrating accounting and finance. As a growing non-profit CiviCRM plays a major role in managing our membership system!

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Ruben Pineda

Developer, Implementor

IXIAM

http://ixiam.com/

I'm spent a lot of time in project of civicrm and i think that i can contribuite in bugs and development. I see that this weekend is "Bug Smithing Weekend", I will try to collaborate.

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Announcing CiviCRM 4.2 and the new Extensions Directory

Submitted by Dave Greenberg on August 20, 2012 - 16:45

The team is excited to announce the release of 4.2 stable with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 2.5 and WordPress 3.3.

You can download the release from SourceForge, and you can also test drive the release on each platform using the public demos:

  • CiviCRM 4.2 on Drupal 7
  • CiviCRM 4.2 on Joomla 2.5
  • CiviCRM 4.2 on Wordpress 3.3

Extensions take flight

The combination of extendability and a facility for folks to share their innovations is a key to the success and growth of the three content management platforms that CiviCRM integrates with. After several "experimental implementations" - we think the extensions functionality for CiviCRM is now ready for prime time with the 4.2 release. This includes a new searchable Extensions Directory, Civix - a packaging tool for extension developers, and much improved extension discovery, download and installation functionality.

If you have developed additional functionality for CiviCRM - be it a payment processor, a report, a module with a whole new set of workflows … please consider sharing your work with the broader community by posting it on the Extensions Directory. Not only will you be giving back - but you're likely to get back suggestions, additional testing and perhaps even code improvements.

What's else is new in 4.2?

Here's a quick list of some of the other cool new features and improvements in this release:

  • Inline (quick) editing of contact fields (email, phone, communications preferences, custom fields) from Contact Summary - CRM-9908
  • Recurring contributions and auto-renew memberships: allow self-service and back-office update and cancellation - CRM-10076
  • Offer donors a choice of payment processors on your online contribution pages - CRM-9850
  • Support for SMS blasts and interactions - CRM-9782
  • Relative date filters on all search forms (e.g. "last month", "this year-to-date") - CRM-9427
  • Improve search filters for mailings and link to advanced search from mailing summaries - CRM-9542
  • Batch (automated) dedupe and merge - CRM-9312
  • Create and send thank-you letters from contribution search - CRM-9998
  • Multiple membership renewal reminders - CRM-8359
  • Batch entry of contributions and membership payments (quick input of batches of checks). Read more here- CRM-9834
  • Replace hard-code email address in online event registration forms with a reserved profile, and allow online event registration forms to NOT collect email addresses - CRM-9587
  • Support price sets for recurring contributions - CRM-9504

Want to learn more? Check out the complete list of ~150 improvements and new features, as well as a list of the bug fixes included in the 4.2 release - both on the issue tracker.

 

Downloads

You can download the release from SourceForge - select from the civicrm-stable section. The filenames include the 4.2.0labels, e.g. civicrm-4.2.0-drupal.tar.gz or civicrm-4.2.0-joomla.tar.gz or civicrm-4.2.0-wordpress.tar.gz. Make sure you're downloading the correct version: for Drupal or Joomla or Wordpress.

 

New Installations

If you are installing CiviCRM 4.2 from scratch, please use the corresponding automated installer instructions:

  • Install CiviCRM 4.2 on Drupal 7
  • Install CiviCRM 4.2 on Joomla 1.7
  • Install CiviCRM 4.2 on Wordpress
  • Drupal 6 (not officially supported)

 

Upgrading to 4.2

The procedure for upgrading is described in following documents:

  • Upgrade Drupal Sites to 4.2
  • Upgrade Joomla Sites to 4.2
  • Upgrade WordPress Sites to 4.2

 

Contributors

Community support and engagement is the force that sustains and drives CiviCRM forward. This release would not have been possible without the incredible contributions of these people and organizations:

Abril Rocabert, Adam Wight, Alice Aguilar, Allen Shaw, Andres Spagarino, Andrew Harris, Andrew Hunt, Andrew Walker, Andre Gurgel, Anthony Camilleri, Ariel Gold, Bob Vincent, Brian Shaugnessy, Chris Burgess, Chris Ward, Coleman Watts, Dave D, Dave Moreton, Eileen McNaughton, Erik Brower, Erik Hommel, Frank Gomez, Graylin Kim, Jamie McClelland, Jane Hanley, Jason Bertolacci, Jeroen Bensch, Jim Meehan, Jon Goldberg, Jonathan Mark, Joe Murray, Kasia Wakarecy, Katie Horn, Katy Jockelson, Kellie Brownell, Ken West, Ken Zalewski, Lisa Jervis, Marianela Zucotti Bozzano, Mathieu Lutfy, Matt Niemayer, Micah Lee, Michael Daryabeygi, Michael McAndrew, Nicolas Ganivet, Noah Miller, Parvez Saleh, Peter Gehres, Peter McAndrew, Robyn Perry, Samuel Vanhove, Simon West, Stephane Lussier, Steve Colson, Stuart Gaston, Torrance Hodgeson, Xavier Dutoit.

AGH Strategies, Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, Association for Learning Technology, Backoffice Thinking, Circle Interactive, CiviDesk, Community Builders, DC Roadrunners, EE-atWork, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Freeform Solutions, Free Software Foundation, Fuzion (NZ), Giant Rabbit, Gingko Street Labs, Kindling Trust, Koumbit, Korlon, International Mountain Biking Association,  JMA Consulting, Lighthouse Consulting and Design, National Democratic Institute, New York State Senate, Ninjitsu Web Development, Nonprofit Solutions, NS Web Solutions, Palentetech, Progressive Technology Project, River Pool at Beacon, San Francisco Baykeeper,  Switchback, Tech to the People,  The Monthly, Third Sector Design, Veda Consulting, Voluntary Action Westminster,  Woolman Sierra Friends Center, Woven, Zing.

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Happy to be the first to

Permalink Submitted by petednz on August 21, 2012 - 12:14

Happy to be the first to offer congrats to the team and the community who have sweated over many a keyboard to get these features and fixes delivered.

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Congratulations

Permalink Submitted by ken on August 21, 2012 - 17:05

Peter may have been first to congratulate the team (he does have a timezone advantage there!) but I'm glad to add mine to his.

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Wordpress 3.4?

Permalink Submitted by jwalange on September 29, 2012 - 03:59

Will CiviCRM 4.2 also work with Wordpress 3.4?

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