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Tim Otten

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CiviCRM

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Andrew Hunt

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AGH Strategies

http://aghstrategies.com

CiviCRM allows our clients to have a robust tool for tracking and engaging their supporters that can grow with them. I began as an end user, and now I work with CiviCRM full-time.

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Brylie Oxley

End-user and Developer

Woolman Sierra Friends Center

http://woolman.org

Working with CiviCRM enriches our commonwealth. Any investment in CiviCRM is
shared by the community as a whole. Community organizations naturally complement the spirit of Free/Libre Software.

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Jamie McClelland

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PROGRESSIVE TECHNOLOGY PROJECT

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Alice Aguilar

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Progressive Technology Project

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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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Stacy Liou

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elMobile Inc.

http://www.elmobile.com

As developers for various OpenSource CRM applications, we learned a lot from CiviCRM on its scalability and ease of customization.
CiviCRM community is truly organic cultivating growth for users and developers.
We wish to continue learning with CiviCRM and to tackle future challenges with CiviCRM.

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Michael Daryabeygi

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Ginkgo Street Labs

http://ginkgostreet.com

CiviCRM enables me to empower my clients with a database that suits their unique needs.

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Katy Jockelson

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Third Sector Design

http://thirdsectordesign.org

We work with non-profits to help them use and understand Civi. It's such an important tool for these organisations and it's great to see people using it in different and interesting ways. Using and working with Civi is made so much more fun and useful by the enthusiastic and talented community surrounding it.

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Merlise Clyde

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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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Donald Lobo

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CiviCRM LLC

http://civicrm.org

Still thinking of a deep deep quote. Basically:

It is super important for non-profits, advocacy and related groups to take charge of their destiny. Having control of your data is a good start. The crowd-sourced nature of an open source project in so in line with the co-operation and principles of most non-profits

CiviCRM is a project that strives to make the above possible. It is FREE as in kittens.

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Allen Shaw

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NS WEB SOLUTIONS

http://nswebsolutions.com

I'm quite impressed with the responsiveness of the CiviCRM community, both from the core developers and many experienced users who have quickly provided answers and ideas in areas where I just needed that extra insight, or where we needed to do something totally new. After several years working with open source software, I'm finding the CiviCRM community to be the most responsive and helpful I've seen.

We make CiviCRM one of our primary offerings because it just provides so much right out of the box that our clients need, without a line of custom code. And when we need to extend it for the clients' unique needs, the APIs and programming hooks let us add in features that would be impossible in some other systems. This means we can provide great value to our clients with quick turnaround times and reasonable budgets, which is great for our clients and for us.

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Micah Lee

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

http://www.eff.org

I work for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We switched to CiviCRM so that we could be sure that our membership data stays safe, secure, and private. Now we have control over our CRM and can customize it to work for our needs.

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Announcing CiviCRM 4.1 beta 2!!!

Submitted by yashodha on January 9, 2012 - 01:11

The team is excited to announce the second beta release for 4.1 with support for Drupal 7, Drupal 6, Joomla 1.7/1.6, and the integration with Wordpress 3.3 (wohoooo!!!).

 

Please remember this is a BETA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we  strongly encourage everyone upgrade a copy of your current site(s) on a test server and let us know about any bugs or problems.
 

You can also test drive the release on each platform using the public sandboxes:

  • CiviCRM 4.1 on Drupal 7
  • CiviCRM 4.1 on Drupal 6
  • CiviCRM 4.1 on Joomla 1.7
  • CiviCRM 4.1 on Wordpress

Please spend some time running through your critical workflows on these sandboxes, and report any bugs or issues on the release testing forum board.

 

What's new?

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

  • Personal Campaign Pages for events - CRM-8534
  • Scheduled Reminders for Events - CRM-8669
  • Social networking plugins (Facebook "like", Tweet ...) for event and contribution pages - CRM-8737
  • Support for case custom fields - CRM-8508
  • Simplified Administrator menus - CRM-9059
  • Assign multiple contact subtypes and change subtypes  - CRM-8357
  • Consolidate CiviCRM Cron to provide a single interface for configuring the automated scripts- CRM-8358

Want to learn more? Check out the complete list of new and improved functionality on the issue tracker.

 

Step up and help out!

The moment of releasing CiviCRM 4.1beta2 is a great occasion to get involved in CiviCRM community. There are many ways you can help make this release better and bug free.
 

  • Log in to the one of the sandboxes and try out the features you or your clients use regularly. If you find a problem, first check the open issues list on the issue tracker to see if it's already been reported. If not, please report it on the appropriate forum board. Remember that sandbox data is periodically reset.
  • Download the tarball and upgrade a copy of your site to 4.1 - let us know if you encounter any problems. This is an especially valuable contribution since we need to have the upgrade process tested on different sets of data. After you've done this, play around with your favorite features, with your local data. Problems appearing? Use the CiviCRM 4.1 release testing board on the forums to discuss problems and find answers!
     
  • If you're a developer and have PHP skills, we strongly encourage you to develop and attach a code patch AND a unit test along with any bug you report through our issue tracker. Ping us on IRC if you need help figuring out how to do this.

 

Downloads

You can download the release from SourceForge - select from the civicrm-latest section. The filenames include the 4.1beta2 labels, e.g. civicrm-4.1beta2-drupal.tar.gz or civicrm-4.1.beta2-joomla.tar.gz or civicrm-4.1.beta2-wordpress.tar.gz. Make sure you're downloading the correct version: for Drupal or Joomla or Wordpress.

 

New Installations

If you are installing CiviCRM 4.1beta2 from scratch, please use the corresponding automated installer instructions:

  • Install CiviCRM 4.1 on Drupal 7
  • Install CiviCRM 4.1 on Drupal 6
  • Install CiviCRM 4.1 on Joomla 1.7
  • Install CiviCRM 4.1 on Wordpress

 

Upgrading to 4.1.beta2

The procedure for upgrading is described in following documents:

  • Upgrade Drupal 7 / CiviCRM 4.0 Sites to 4.1
  • Upgrade Drupal 6 / CiviCRM 3.x sites to 4.1
  • Upgrade Joomla Sites to 4.1

We will continue to include automated upgrades for subsequent beta releases of 4.1 - so you should be able to upgrade your test site easily over the course of the release cycle.

 

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:

Adam Wight, Andrew Harris, Andrew Perry, Alice Aguilar, Andre Gurgel, Brian Shaugnessy, Coleman Watts, Dave D, Dave Moreton, Eileen McNaughton, Erik Brower, Erik Hommel, Henry Bennett, Jamie McClelland, Jim Taylor, Jonathan Mark, Joe Murray, Marianela Zucotti Bozzano, Michael McAndrew, Steve Colson, Stuart Gaston, Tim Otten, Tom Kirkpatrick, Xavier Dutoit.

AGH Strategies, Amigos Library Services, Association for Learning Technology, Attendee Management, Benton Consulting, Circle Interactive, CivicActions, Community Builders, EE-atWork, Fuzion (NZ), Giant Rabbit, Kindling Trust, Korlon, International Mountain Biking Association, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, Josiesque Designs, Michigan Parents for Schools, New York State Senate, Nonprofit Association of Oregon, Nonprofit Solutions, Powered by Action, Progressive Technology Project, Resolutions Northwest, River Pool at Beacon, Rooty Hollow, San Francisco Baykeeper, Scotland's Colleges, Switchback, System Seed, Tech to the People, The San Francisco Orff-Schulwerk, Third Sector Design, Voluntary Action Westminster, Vpod Schweiz, Woven.

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WHAT IS CIVICRM
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WILL CIVICRM MEET YOUR NEEDS?
  • Contacts
  • Contributions
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  • Peer-To-Peer Fundraisers
  • Advocacy Campaigns
  • Events
  • Members
  • Reports
  • Case Management
GET STARTED
  • Evaluate Your CRM Needs
  • Evaluate CiviCRM Features
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  • Find An Expert
PARTICIPATE
  • Join the CiviCRM Community
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