In November 2011 we worked during a hole day with Abril from AlternativasyCapacidades.org and Juan Manuel from TelarSocial.org, and their teams from Mexico to get the Mexican Spanish translation finished for CiviCRM. We did our best and despite we couldn't reach the goal, we got 90% completed. Not bad! We put together a team of volunteers, some working in our office at Wingu and one remotely from the province of Mendoza in Northwestern Argentina.
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Recently we noticed the Make-It-Happen on CiviCRM.org which proposed to integrate CiviCRM with Clickatell and other SMS gateways. I approached dlobo on IRC and asked if he would be interested in seeing the code we had developed that would do some of what the MIH proposed. He asked why we hadn't mentioned it before and my sheepish response was that, even though it worked, it felt like it was a duct tape solution not ready for public consumption.
This month we did a fairly complex migration for a customer of about 90,000 contacts to CiviCRM. I have been using Migrate module to do migrations for a while now but this time for the first time I used version 2 of the migrate module. I put up a how-to-blog on our site just before Christmans but Fen has inspired me to get on with sharing it more widely.
Similar to @annaleevk's story (Tales from a Blackbaud Kintera Conversion) earlier this year I was tasked with migrating a 60K contact Kintera database to CiviCRM. To make matters more "interesting", the client had a home-grown database with mixed information, some defining new contacts and some adding information to the Kintera contacts. I will not talk
This time of year I would normally be entring data from hundreds of sheets of paper, struggling to read people's sloppy handwriting and feeling like I was a slave to our database. But instead, I'm viewing reports on phone calls, pledges and donations, generating reminders and thank-yous -- with no data entry required!
The CiviCRM team invites you to CiviCon 2012
CiviCon – the annual conference for CiviCRM developers, implementers, administrators and users – is happening in the San Francisco Bay Area on April 2nd. Early bird registration is just $75 and ends less than a month away on January 30th, so reserve your spot now.
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The team is excited to announce the first beta release for 4.1 with support for Drupal 7, Drupal 6, Joomla 1.7/1.6, and the integration with Wordpress 3.3(wohoooo!!!).
A client of mine at NS Web Solutions is looking to solve a problem involving the way their users need to handle reports. I think this might be common enough to be relevant for others, so here's a bit about what we're planning to do.
Note: This is based on a short forum thread here: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,22307.msg93500.html
I think there were few discussion in the forum about adding 'Custom Data Group' with multiple records in a profile. We wanted the same for one of our clients, who wanted an Application Form in which they wanted to collect Qualifications and Experience, which obviously is multi-record custom data against contact. As they needed it in a very short period of time, we managed to do a work around to accomplish this. As usual, the wonderful CiviCRM API version 3 and hooks come to the rescue.
