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Kellie Brownell

End-user

EFF

https://www.eff.org

The CiviCRM community has been a tremendous resource for new ideas and helping us solve problems. We are excited to contribute customizations EFF makes back to core and support new features such as batch entry for offline donations or multiple payment processors on one donation form.

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Allen Gunn

Ally, FanBoy

Aspiration

http://aspirationtech.org/

By giving the nonprofit sector a values-driven, free/open source solution for CRM needs!

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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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Micah Lee

Developer

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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Allen Shaw

DEVELOPER

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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Adam Wight

Developer

Giant Rabbit

http://giantrabbit.com/

Saves us from writing monstrous, custom database apps.

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Erik Hommel

Implementer, Developer

EE-atWork

The CiviCRM community is a very friendly and helpful community. Whatever the challenge, I always get enough help from the forum or IRC to nudge me in the right direction. For me joining in a CiviCRM sprint once or twice a year is the best, meeting other community members in real life, sharing successes, challenges, problems and meals :-) Seriously, I think the active community is one of the serious assets of CiviCRM and I am proud to be part of it! And when I grow up I promise to do more :-)

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Samuel Vanhove

Developer, Implementor

Réseau Koumbit

http://koumbit.org

As non-profit consultants working for non-profit organizations, we found CiviCRM to be particularly well suited to answer the common needs of activist associations, charities and other medium-sized groups. Based in Montréal, we've helped local and international organizations migrate to CiviCRM to manage their memberships, events, communications and fundraising campaigns. We empower our clients and assist them when they need us.

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Philippe Gervaix

Implementor

ISHR

http://www.ishr.ch

ISHR is currently in the early stages of implementing CiviCRM, and is finding the customisable aspects of the software to be especially beneficial.

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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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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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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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CiviCRM 4.1 Alpha2 is out!!! Try out now!

Submitted by yashodha on December 7, 2011 - 03:39

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

 

Please remember this is an ALPHA 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 4.1alpha2 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 4.1alpha2 labels, e.g. civicrm-4.1alpha2-drupal.tar.gz or civicrm-4.1.alpha2-joomla.tar.gz or civicrm-4.1.alpha2-wordpress.tar.gz. Make sure you're downloading the correct version: for Drupal or Joomla or Wordpress.

 

New Installations

If you are installing CiviCRM 4.1alpha2 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.alpha2

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 alpha 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
  • Community
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  • Experts
  • Contributors
  • Core Team
  • Licensing
  • Contact Us
WILL CIVICRM MEET YOUR NEEDS?
  • Contacts
  • Contributions
  • Communications
  • Peer-To-Peer Fundraisers
  • Advocacy Campaigns
  • Events
  • Members
  • Reports
  • Case Management
GET STARTED
  • Evaluate Your CRM Needs
  • Evaluate CiviCRM Features
  • Read Books
  • Documentation
  • Demo CiviCRM
  • Download CiviCRM
  • Find An Expert
PARTICIPATE
  • Join the CiviCRM Community
  • Read Our Blog
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  • Make It Happen
  • Contribute
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  • Translate