Upcoming Events
San Francisco CiviCRM Meetup - March 2010
March 24th, 2010
Come meet others from the Bay Area who are interested in, using or developing (more...)
Campaigning Camp in Oxford, UK
March 25th, 2010
Free (with lunch and tea break included!) CiviCRM/Drupal and Plone two-track (more...)
CiviCRM Seminar - Dublin
March 25th, 2010
MTL Software Solutions are hosting a free seminar at The IBOA, Stephen
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CiviCRM User Training - Atlanta (pre NTC)
April 7th, 2010
This full-day hands-on training session is aimed at non-profit staff and (more...)
Configuring, Customizing and Extending CiviCRM - San Francisco (before DrupalCon SF)
April 18th, 2010
This hands-on 1-day training session is targeted at administrators, integrators (more...)
CiviCRM User Training - San Francisco (before DrupalCon SF) This full-day hands-on training session is aimed at non-profit staff and (more...)
April 18th, 2010
CiviCon San Francisco 2010
April 22nd, 2010
Join us for the first ever CiviCon in San Francisco this April! CiviCon brings (more...)
CiviCRM v3.1
- Not Just a Contact Database
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These optional components give you more power to connect and engage your supporters.

civiCONTRIBUTE
Online fundraising and donor management.

civiEVENT
Online event registration and participant tracking.

civiMEMBER
Online signup and membership management.

civiMAIL
Personalized email blasts and newsletters.

civiREPORT
Report generation and template management.
CiviCRM / CiviEvent handled thousands of registrations in one day
Every year in June, around the 10th day, a commemorative event happens in Akron, Ohio - the annual celebration of the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. Hosted at the University of Akron, over 10,000 participants from around the world gather to celebrate the founding of this wonderful fellowship. In recent years, registration for this all weekend event has moved from mail-in forms to an online registration process. Online registration challenges from the past few years had made us seek a solution to that could handle a surge of registrations in the first 24 hours, and collect all the necessary information required by the University.
In past years, Zen Cart could handle our registrations - it may have even been able to handle it this year, except we needed to collect more infomation than in years' past, and we wanted to still be able to allow multiple registrations per transaction. One serious issue from last year was the server became overloaded as thousands of registants came to the site to register at midnight. We had 42 days to pick a solution, and implement.
Creating custom contact tabs and filling them from Drupal
To make custom tabs when viewing a contact, begin by using the tabs_hook "hook_civicrm_tabs".
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviCRM+hook+specification#CiviCRMhookspecification-hookcivicrmtabs
A simple example given on the hooks documentation link above
function civitest_civicrm_tabs( &$tabs, $contactID ) {
// unset the contribition tab, i.e. remove it from the page
unset( $tabs[1] );
// let's add a new "contribution" tab with a different name and put it last
CiviCRM 3.1.3 Release
We are excited to announce that CiviCRM 3.1.3 has been released, and is now available for download. You can also try it out on our demo site. This release includes jQuery performance improvements for drupal and 50+ bug fixes/improvements to existing functionality.
Automatic addition of Drupal account upon admin membership creation
This is by no means an elegant solution, but is at least a step towards automatically creating an associated Drupal user when adding a membership to a CiviCRM individual.
CiviCRM 3.1.2 Release
We are happy to announce release of CiviCRM 3.1.2 and is now available for download. You can also try it out on our demo site. This release includes 35+ bug fixes/improvements to existing functionality. We recommend that sites currently running v3.1.1 or earlier upgrade to this version as soon as possible.
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CiviCRM 3.1 Stable is now available!
The team is excited to announce the release of CiviCRM 3.1 Stable. You can download the release AND / OR try it out on our demo sites.
The version number for the initial stable release is 3.1.1. There was an invalid 3.1.0 distribution on Sourceforge for a few hours. If you downloaded that version, please discard and re-download 3.1.1.
v3.1 includes several COOL new features:
CiviCRM 3.1 Templates, Theming, CSS Bonanza!
This is a follow up to Refactoring CiviCRM's templating system (starting with CSS). It may be helpful to read that first, although it is certainly not necessary.
We have made a lot of progress on CiviCRM 3.1's templating system, and I'm quite please to share some of the details of the work with you!
CiviCRM v3.1 Beta 6 Now Available
The sixth BETA release of version 3.1 is now available for download. You can also try it out on our public demo. Check out release highlights here!. (Please remember it’s a beta release and it shouldn’t be used on production sites.)
Step up and help out!
Beta releases are a great occasion to get involved in CiviCRM community. There are many ways you can help make this release better and bug free.
CiviCRM v3.1 Beta 5 Now Available
The fifth BETA release of version 3.1 is now available for download. This release includes some security fixes so if you are already on 3.1 we would recommend upgrade. You can also try it out on our public demo. Check out release highlights here!. (Please remember it’s a beta release and it shouldn’t be used on production sites.)
CiviCRM v3.1 Beta 4 Released!!!
The fourth BETA release of version 3.1 is now available for download. You can also try it out on our sandbox site. Check out release highlights here!. (Please remember it’s a beta release and it shouldn’t be used on production sites.)






