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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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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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Chezre Fredericks

Administrator, Implementor, Developer

The Bible Society of South Africa

http://www.biblesociety.co.za

We are currently migrating to civiCRM. We will be using civiCRM for back office to record contributions, manage donor communication and report on contributions received.

CiviCRM is perfect for us because it is based on contributions

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Leena Nangia

Consultant

nfpservices

http://www.nfpservices.co.uk/

We use CiviCRM for our own business functions. Nfpservices participate in the development of CiviCRM and contribute enhanced functionality to the community.

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Abril Rocabert

Administrator and End-user

http://www.alternativasycapacidades.org

CiviCRM is a powerful tool that could be really useful for many non-profits in Mexico.
Unfortunately the community is very small in my country. I hope that in the next years the community expands around Latin America.

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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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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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David Greenberg

Core Team Member

CiviCRM

http://civicrm.org

I find the engagement with our community of users to be intellectually stimulating
and rewarding. Seeing folks with expertise in a particular area step up and contribute their time and ideas to help improve the product is quite exciting. Every time I hear about a new interesting organization starting to use CiviCRM, I get a renewed sense of excitement about our work. The range of civic sector organizations currently using the software is quite amazing to me - from large international advocacy organizations to local performing arts troupes. I also really enjoy interacting with our international community - building friendships and getting to share culture (food, music, humor ....) with colleagues on every continent.

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Ken West

End-user, Administrator

City Bible Forum

http://citybibleforum.org

City Bible Forum is an Australian not-for-profit Christian organisation. We need to communicate effectively with our constituents, and CiviCRM gives us a comprehensive set of tools for managing relationships. Interestingly, we often find that new features are being added just as our need for those features is becoming apparent. It's the right fit for us.

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Joshua Lange

Administrator

Concordia Welfare & Education Foundation

http://cwef.org.hk

CWEF is deploying CiviCRM on Wordpress to build and manage a database of our staff, volunteer, recipient, donor and partner contacts.

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Allen Shaw

DEVELOPER

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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Mathieu Lutfy

Developer

bidon.ca

http://www.bidon.ca

The CiviCRM community is a great place for support, to exchange ideas and to contribute back. Working with other developers or users has often allowed me to pool our resources together and lower our costs, while ensuring better quality since there were more people using it.

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Announcing CiviCRM 4.2.1

Submitted by yashodha on September 12, 2012 - 01:37

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

We strongly recommend that you upgrade a test copy of your site and review your critical workflows before upgrading your production site. There have been significant (~77) bug fixes since the first stable release of 4.2. 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

What is new in 4.2?

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

  • Extensions functionality
  • 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 ~80 improvements and bug fixes done in this second stable version of 4.2

 

Downloads

You can download the release from SourceForge - select from the civicrm-stable section. The filenames include the 4.2.1labels, e.g. civicrm-4.2.1-drupal.tar.gz or civicrm-4.2.1-joomla.tar.gz or civicrm-4.2.1-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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