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October 29, 2010
By shot Filed under CiviCRM

We just released CiviCRM 3.3.alpha2 – it is now available for download. You can also try it out on our sandbox site. Please remember this is an ALPHA release and it should NOT be used on production sites.

We strongly recommend going through 3.3 highlights post, where you will find out what’s new and hot in this release.

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October 28, 2010
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We just released CiviCRM 3.2.4 – it is now available for download. You can also try it out on our demo site.

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October 5, 2010
By shot Filed under CiviCRM, Sprints
One of the goals of the (ongoing) Bristol code sprint was taking a stab at making the API calls properly permissioned, and I’m happy to report that after two days of very fruitful hacking with Erik and Xavier we’ve landed the crux of it on trunk (to be released as CiviCRM 3.3 later this autumn).
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September 15, 2010
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As hinted in the blog post on upcoming features, CiviCRM 3.3 will ship with the first cut of database-level logging.

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September 14, 2010
By shot Filed under CiviCRM

Last week, thanks to the invitation and sponsorship from Fundacja TechSoup, I was able to attend the Local Philanthropy Workshop organised by the Odorheiu Secuiesc Community Foundation in the lovely town of Odorheiu Secuiesc in Transylvania.

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September 7, 2010
By shot Filed under CiviPledge, CiviCRM

We just released CiviCRM 3.2.3 – it is now available for download. You can also try it out on our demo site.

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August 23, 2010
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Update: Due to an unfortunate error multilingual sites cannot be upgraded to CiviCRM 3.2.2; if you’re running such site please wait for CiviCRM 3.2.3. Single-language sites (regardless of the language they use) should upgrade to CiviCRM 3.2.2 cleanly, and new CiviCRM 3.2.2 installations (both single- and multilingual) should work without a problem.

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April 28, 2010
By shot Filed under Architecture, CiviCRM, Drupal, Internationalization and Localization, Sprints
As you have already read in the previous blog posts, one of the outcomes of the translation sprint is the fact that we’re switching our translation server to a new tool, Transifex. We decided to go with Transifex for various reasons: Transifex allows teams of people to collaborate on translations – this is not an issue when you have a single person working on a translation, but as soon as you have two or more contributors working remotely, it’s crucial to use a tool that streamlines the process and allows for easy and centralised communication, the user hierarchy is simple, clean and seems to be efficient: project maintainers accept language maintainers who, in turn, accept language team members and coordinate given language’s development, project maintainers can announce localisation-oriented things on the project’s page, teams can have discussions on the per-language discussion boards, the user interface for translations is better and easier to work with, and has the (dubious for some languages, but useful for others) ability to fetch Google Translate suggestions on-the-fly, PO files can be locked for work in offline tools (like Poedit, Virtaal or others) and the locking is visible to other contributors.
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April 8, 2010
By shot Filed under CiviCRM, Meetups

Two weeks ago Michael McAndrew, Xavier Dutoit and me (Piotr Szotkowski) had the pleasure to attend Campaigning Camp 2010, hosted by FairSay in Oxford, UK. Campaigning Camp was a two track event, with concurrent CiviCRM and Plone development sprints interspersed with general campaigning advice from FairSay’s Duane Raymond.

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February 25, 2010
By shot Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, Meetups, Training

In a month, on March 25th and 26th, FairSay invites you all to Oxford, UK to join us for a two-track CiviCRM/Drupal and Plone Campaigning Camp (free with lunch and tea break included!).

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