As some of you are aware, we have an excellent development team in Mumbai, India (managed by Web Access). Open source in india is starting to get more traction and we'd like to play our part in moving this along at a faster rate :)
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We (dave greenberg and lobo) will be running a two day Developer's Bootcamp in San Francisco on December 10-11. This will be a working session, during which we will work through one or more actual client projects with defined requirements and workflow - and design (and implement - if time) a solution. We will also be reviewing CiviCRM architecture from the point of view of component developers - using specifications for a potential new component as a springboard.
We just updated the CiviCRM 2.0 wiki page with the release schedule. The wiki page has details on the features and changes coming in v2.0. v2.0 will ONLY support PHP5.2+, MySQL 5.0.x+ (later releases only), Drupal 6+ and Joomla 1.5+.
Here is the planned schedule:
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The CiviCRM developer team will be getting together in Mumbai, India from Jan 14 - Jan 28. If there are developers working on CiviCRM in that part of the world, interested in getting more involved and/or some code sprints, please get in touch with us via email.
Now that 1.9 stable is out - most of the team has been focusing heavily on the 2.0 queue. If you've been "following along" - you know that this release includes substantial changes to the core schema. We think these changes will simplify and streamline many of the most commonly used queries.
We have had a few requests from folks to extend the search code with their own SQL queries while taking advantage of the tasks available with search (print, mailing labels, export, smart groups, adding to group etc). This has been on our list of things to do, but we had not made any progress. Some example where this would be useful are:
Give me the set of all household's who have a household member residing in district X. More details here. The search form can be set to just include a text box for the household name and a multi-select element for the district to restrict the search criteria
Give me the set of contact(s) who have donated more than an input amount in this date range.
Various combinations of AND/OR/NOT which civicrm search does not handle.
We are excited to announce that our 1.9 release is now available for download, AND to try out on our demo site.
This release is focused on CiviMail - and unlike previous public demos, you can use the CiviMail menus and features. However, no actual mail will be sent from the site. You can view Release Highlights here. The resolved issues list sports the implementation details and lists fixed bugs.
Periodically we hear things on the blogosphere or on our forums that just blow us away :) This week the honor goes to a forum post detailing about how CiviCRM is being used in a Japanese government agency. The forum post is here. Some of the amazing things that japancoder and his crew did include:
