Blog posts by universalhandle

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March 23, 2018
By universalhandle Filed under Extensions

Ginkgo Street Labs is pleased to announce the availability of CiviVolunteer 2.3.0 and Angular Profiles 1.1.0 for CiviCRM 4.7.31 and above.

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September 21, 2017
By universalhandle Filed under Extensions

Ginkgo Street Labs is pleased to announce the availability of CiviVolunteer 2.2.2 for CiviCRM 4.7.21 and above. Site administrators maintaining an older version of CiviCRM should upgrade core before upgrading CiviVolunteer.

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February 2, 2017
By universalhandle Filed under Extensions

Developers need to follow a new process to request automated distribution for their extensions. Volunteers are needed to perform extension reviews.

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December 3, 2016
By universalhandle Filed under Extensions

Ginkgo Street Labs is pleased to announce the availability of CiviVolunteer 2.2.

Two themes are evident in this release: improving stability and furthering the multi-tier use case. The increased adoption of CiviVolunteer as a multi-tier system, where one organization facilitates the volunteer programs of partner organizations, has necessitated improvements to permissions granularity as well as streamlining of interfaces. Improvements in CiviVolunteer 2.2 include:

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July 24, 2016
By universalhandle Filed under Community

I discovered CiviCRM as I was transitioning from accidental techie to intentional techie. While it's true that a TRS-80 Color Computer featured heavily in my childhood — I would secretly leave it powered on for the days it would take me to key in the recipes from Getting Started with Color BASIC, as we didn't have the cassette storage peripheral that would have allowed me to save my progress — I never set out to become... well, a geek.

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December 16, 2015
By universalhandle Filed under Extensions

Ginkgo Street Labs is excited to announce that the second beta release of CiviVolunteer 2.0 is now available for test-driving as well as for downloading!

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November 20, 2015
By universalhandle Filed under Extensions

Ginkgo Street Labs is excited to announce that the first beta release of CiviVolunteer 2.0 is now available for test-driving as well as for downloading!

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September 14, 2015
By universalhandle Filed under Extensions

In my last blog post I promised I'd share more about CiviVolunteer 2.0's new features as they come together. We've finished our first round of development on what I've been calling the volunteer opportunity shopping cart, and I'm excited to share it with you.

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August 21, 2015
By universalhandle Filed under Extensions

Thanks to tremendous support from the CiviCRM community, development of CiviVolunteer 2.0 is well underway, with a beta slated to be released in time for the CiviCRM User Summit in September. Read on for a preview of what CiviVolunteer 2.0 will add to your volunteer management practice.

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