Blog posts by lobo

Some members of the core CiviCRM team are getting together for a design and code sprint towards 2.1 in Nelson NZ from April 24th - May 8th. As part of improving CiviCRM, we'd love to get together with some CiviCRM users and learn a bit about how we can improve and make CiviCRM more effective.

This event is cancelled. The training group is going for drinks and dinner in CBD. Send me email if you'd like to join

As most of you are aware, we are doing a CiviCRM developer training in Melbourne. We are keen to do a meetup with CiviCRM users in Melbourne on April 21st at 6:00 pm on the second day of the training.

UPDATE: We have discontinued our use of UserVoice as of 12/11/2008

We've been trying to figure out a good structured and fair way of getting user input. We were pointed to UserVoice.com by Greg Heller at NTEN. UserVoice seems a fairly simple Web 2.0 site which does exactly that. Hopefully it has a decent search / sort / categoization system to handle an expanding list of features.

It feels like 2008 is the year of CiviCRM training. Following in the heels of our Melbourne bootcamp is the CiviCRM webinar bought to you by Michelle Murrain and the good folks from NTEN.

Earlier today we pushed out v2.0.2 of CiviCRM. You can download it here. We have fixed approx 67 issues between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 (this involved approx 170 commits). This brings us to a grand total of 504 issues resolved for the 2.0 series. We suspect (and hope) that the rate of bugs filed / issues fixed will slow down significantly for future 2.0.x releases.

Mari Tilos has posted a few additional screencasts on our screencast wiki page. You can read and post your feedback on the forum topic here. If you have any ideas or suggestions for additional screencasts, please do post a comment on the forum topic

We monitor the forums quite a bit and are always trying to figure out how to reduce / minimize the repeated requests. Many a time my strong stance on refusing to fix something obvious delays a few fixes (yes, i'm learning all the time and hopefully improving and becoming a wee bit wiser). I got a bit tired and fed up of seeing the same requests over and over again, so earlier today I went on a spree and fixed (or attempted to fix) a few of the most common support requests or mistakes.

Thanx to Elin Waring, we had two of Joomla core developers, Rob and Louis, attend the CiviCRM training in New Orleans. We had a pretty diverse CiviCRM crowd attend the training and hence could not work as much as we'd like on improving the CiviCRM Joomla integration. However, I did spend some time with Rob and got a few ideas on how to improve and optimize our Joomla integration. Here are a few things we plan on doing in v2.1 to better support Joomla v1.5

For April 20th and 21st. The session is already sold out. However if there is more interest, we can schedule another training (in Sydney?) and/or get another developer to help with this training. Please contact us immediately if interested.