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By tobiaseigen Filed under Case studies and user stories

Kabissa is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 1999. Our mission is to help African civil society organizations to put Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to work for the benefit of their communities.

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By cividesk Filed under Training

Cividesk will offer on-line CiviCRM training sessions in September on Contacts, Events and Contribution management.  All sessions are two hours in length and are designed for new users or as a refresher course for those already working in CiviCRM.  

Contact Management: September 9th, 9:00 - 11:00 am (Mountain Standard Time) Click here to register. 

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By Stoob Filed under Documentation, Training

CiviTeacher organizes clear and concise videos into a portable and searchable training library.

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the seventh beta release of CiviCRM 4.5 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.5 sandbox site!

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By ErikHommel Filed under Community

CiviCooP just received it's yearly bookkeeping report and as it turns out there is still some money left after all CiviCooP participants got paid for their work and our costs (marketing, website, CiviCRM partnership, community, administration) are paid. So we decided to donate the rest (roughly about 2000 euro) to the CiviCRM community. Speaking to Michael McAndrew and Dave Greenberg we will contribute to the Continuous Integration project, which is pretty technical so hard to fund.

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By teja Filed under GSoC

 

Bootstrap CSS for CiviCRM UI was conceived as a project to provide a templating layer to native CiviCRM elements.  For the past three months, my efforts for focussed on this. As we come to the end of my GSoC project, here are some updates.

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By Eileen Filed under Extensions

I have a few payment processing related projects on the go but having just gotten the first one to alpha stage I thought it would be a good time to share some thoughts (& try to get them straight in my mind). The project I am referring to is developing a Cybersource Secure Acceptance POST payment processor. For this payment processor I had a big challenge and also a big opportunity.

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the sixth beta release of CiviCRM 4.5 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.5 sandbox site!

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By cividesk Filed under Training

During the last two weeks of August, Cividesk will be offering all four training classes:  Contacts, Membership, Events and Contributions.   Each on-line session is two hours in length and classes are kept small in size to allow for Q & A.  Click on the link below to learn more about the curriculum for each session, specific class dates and times on our calendar, and to register for one or all of the classes.  

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By andyw Filed under Extensions
What is Bitcoin?

So you may have heard about Bitcoin, some of you might be quite familiar with it - but for those who aren't, it is a digital currency - a form of electronic cash which can be used to make online payments, transfer money to friends - in theory, anything that you can do with traditional money, you can equally do with Bitcoin.

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