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Mark Cridge

End-User and Admin

Green Party of England & Wales

http://www.greenparty.org.uk

We use CiviCRM for our Membership and Supporters system. We're committed to using Open Source solutions and are keen to expand the variety and success of our member recruitment and fundraising efforts.

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Franck Sinimalé

Integrator

l'AtelierWeb.Org

http://www.atelierweb.org

I chose to learn to use CiviCRM to learn how to help NPOs :) And because it seems to be a meeting point and a continuity of my values, my skills, and what I think we should develop for the next step of our humanity.

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Peter Petrik

Implementor, Developer

Skvare, LLC

http://skvare.com

Helping non-profits, membership organizations, and professional associations to make the most out of their resources with open-source tools.

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Jon Goldberg

Implementor

Palante Technology Cooperative

http://palantetech.com

Palante Tech works with social justice organizations on a tight budget to be more effective through technology. CiviCRM allows us to provide a high-quality low-cost database for community organizing, donor and membership management.

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Robyn Perry

End-user, Administrator, Trainer

Progressive Technology Project

http://progressivetech.org

CiviCRM is helping us serve member-based community organizing groups across the
U.S. to keep better track of their events, fundraising, and membership data. It's helping our community to aim higher in terms of what kind of questions they should be asking and what kind of data they should be collecting. We chose CiviCRM because it's the best all-around tool to do what our groups need, AND because it's open source.

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David Barratt

Developer

Donor Depot

http://www.donordepot.com

They provide us a way to manage Non-Profit Donors

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Jessica Kirsner

end-user, administrator, implementor

Secular Student Alliance

https://www.secularstudents.org

I am trying to build a stronger End-user community withing CiviCRM to increase cooperation among non-profits using CiviCRM in similar ways. Going to CiviCRON and being a part of the community at the conference has made me want to make the End-user community more robust. I think the open-source and non-profit focused nature of CiviCRM lends itself to strong community building as is an aspect of CiviCRM that is exciting!

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Lisa Jervis

End-user, Administrator, Implementor

Center for Media Justice

http://www.centerformediajustice.org

Civi has been an amazing tool for CMJ (and for other organizations I work with) to keep our most important data all in one place in a user friendly way.

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Carlos Capote Pérez-Andreu

Administrator, Developer

Amnistía Internacional España

http://www.es.amnesty.org

CiviCRM helps us to unify the management of different databases (volunteers, members, etc) allowing us to keep control over our data.

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Adam Wight

Developer

Wikimedia Foundation

http://wikimediafoundation.org/

Civi is one of those pieces of software that makes you wonder how early humans could have survived without it. Every nonprofit seems to be using Civi for some aspect of their fundraising, and I'm always surprised at the creative ways different people find to make it work for their needs. Happy to be able to help out a bit. There's a lot of energy going into this project--definitely checkout the forums and the IRC channel if you're curious.

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Rachel Daniell

end-user, implementor

consulting/multi

CiviCRM provides a vital tool whereby nonprofits and other social projects can implement strong contact-relationship management capabilities without high monthly fees. It also provides the integration and customization capabilities necessary to make such software useful in the complex, lived reality of doing social engagement work. Plus it continues to build the open source toolset made available to the Commons and grow the common good.

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Nicolas Ganivet

Implementor, Developper

cividesk

http://www.cividesk.com

The community around CiviCRM is international, multicultural, friendly, sometime opinionated but always respectful and welcoming new ideas. It is a real pleasure to interact with these people - but see for yourself: dive in and ask your first question on the forums!

We thoroughly appreciate CiviCRM as a software and this community, and when helping our customers implement and make the best of CiviCRM we are always looking for ways to contribute back.

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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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