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Update 2: Based on some thoughtful input, we've integrated the requirement for multiple membership blocks INTO the price set functionality. Each price set field option can be linked to a membership type - opening up all the power and flexibility of price sets to both online and backoffice membership signup. You can read the details here in the issue tracker.

Update: This 'Make it Happen' has been fulfilled and we are beginning development. You can review detailed specifications:

Thanks to the sponsors for making it happen!

For all you "customizers" out there - I wanted to highlight a cool new feature that is available as of the 3.4.3 / 4.0.3 release. You can now append jQuery functions, Smarty code, HTML (really anything) to any template without having to create a customized copy of the entire file. Wow - you say, "how the h?!# do I do that?" All you need to do is put your "extra stuff" in a new file and save it as template_to_append_to.extra.tpl.

For the past two days Michael McAndrew and I have been working on a training program for CiviCRM. We haven't finished it, but feel free to take a look at what we've done so far in this Google doc.

Want to control the Joomla ACL depending on a user’s membership status?

Version 2 of the Joomla CiviCRM Membership Authentication Plugin does precisely this for Joomla 1.6 and CiviCRM 4.0 users. 

Allows users to login with either their username or email address

Uses the Joomla user table to authenticate

Checks that that user has a current CiviCRM membership record

The target for the 'multiple contact subtypes' Make-it-Happen has just been reached thanks to a great bunch of donors.

Thanks to

In the past three weeks, we worked with a client to build scheduled email reminders for activities in CiviCRM. Detailed project specifications are on the wiki at ARMS Project Home. We've added the following new features to CiviCRM as part of this work:

My UK based organisation the Association for Learning Technology launched a brand new web site on 20 April based on Drupal 6 and CiviCRM. We are very pleased indeed with the overall result and having all our membership process now running within a unified web-based environment we've been able to reduce transaction costs and give our individual and organisational members a much better service all round.

I have been leveraging the CiviCase component of CiviCRM to help a crisis response organization transition to a paperless process.  I was originally tasked with "fixing" a Microsoft implementation of a custom web application written in VBScript and MS SQL Server but after fighting with the former developers horrible code I finally decided to migrate the system over to an open source LAMP implementation leveraging J! 1.5 and CiviCRM 3.1.