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Pablo Campo

Administrator, Developer

End-user

http://www.es.amnesty.org

We are going to use it as central database to arrange many other sources in an only point and to use for several purposes as Press database, etc.

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Monica Tapia A.

End-User and promoter in Latin America

Alternativas y Capacidades

http://www.alternativasycapacidades.org

Our capacity organization manages a largely segmented contact list for bulk mailing, events, training, groups and donors.
We are helping other organizations gain advocacy capacities, managing constituency making, campaigns and petitions

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Bryan Cole

Implementor

BackOffice Thining

http://www.backofficethinking.com

CiviCRM is one of the core offerings of our company. Remaining close to the CiviCRM community is important to us, as it keeps us close to new developments in the tool, and allows us to offer our feedback for new releases.

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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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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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Arthur Richards

DEVELOPER

WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION

http://wikimediafoundation.org

At the Wikimedia Foundation, we leverage CiviCRM to maintain millions of records of donors and their contributions. Working with the product and particularly with the community has been a terrific experience. There's nothing quite like two open source organizations working together to meet their respective goals while ultimately strengthening the open source community as a whole.

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Jose Torres

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Professional Exchange Service Corporation

http://pesc.com

PESC uses CiviCRM as pillar in maintaining many nonprofits throughout California and Nevada.

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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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Joshua Walker

Developer / Contributor

Drastik by Design

http://drastikbydesign.com

CiviCRM has one of the best open source communities out there. It's always a blessing when I get the opportunity to do my next project in CiviCRM.

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Allen Shaw

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EMPHANOS

http://emphanos.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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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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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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Announcing CiviCRM 4.2 alpha 1

Submitted by yashodha on June 8, 2012 - 11:16

The team is super excited to announce the first alpha release for 4.2 with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 1.7 and WordPress.

Please remember this is an ALPHA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we  strongly encourage everyone to 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 4.2 on Drupal 7
  • CiviCRM 4.2 on Joomla 1.7
  • CiviCRM 4.2 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:

  • Inline (quick) editing of contact fields (email, phone, communications preferences, custom fields) from Contact Summary - CRM-9908
  • Allow a person to register for multiple events simultaneously. - CRM-8705
  • 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

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 4.2.alpha1 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 4.2 - 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 4.2 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 4.2.alpha1 labels, e.g. civicrm-4.2.alpha1-drupal.tar.gz or civicrm-4.2.alpha1-joomla.tar.gz or civicrm-4.2.alpha1-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.alpha1 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

 

Upgrading to 4.2.alpha1

The procedure for upgrading is described in following documents:

  • Upgrade Drupal 7 / CiviCRM 4.0 Sites to 4.2
  • Upgrade Joomla Sites to 4.2
  • Upgrade WordPress Sites to 4.2

We will continue to include automated upgrades for subsequent alpha releases of 4.2 - 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, Allen Shaw, Andres Spagarino, Andrew Harris, Andrew Hunt, Andrew Walker, Alice Aguilar, Andre Gurgel, Bob Vincent, Brian Shaugnessy, Chris Burgess, Coleman Watts, Dave D, Dave Moreton, Eileen McNaughton, Erik Brower, Erik Hommel, Frank Gomez, Grayin Kim, Henry Bennett, Jamie McClelland, Jason Bertolacci, Jeroen Bensch, Jim Meehan, Jon Goldberg, Jonathan Mark, Joe Murray, Ken West, Ken Zalewski, Marianela Zucotti Bozzano, Mathieu Lutfy, Matt Chapman, Matt Niemayer, Micah Lee, Michael Labriola, Michael McAndrew, Nicolas Ganivet, Noah Miller, Parvez Saleh, Peter McAndrew, Samuel Vanhove, Stephane Lussier, Steve Colson, Stuart Gaston, Tim Otten, Tom Kirkpatrick, 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, 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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