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September 19, 2013
By colemanw Filed under Release announcements

Today marks the third beta release of CiviCRM 4.4. Congratulations to the CiviCRM community of developers; many people worked tirelessly to make this happen. If you haven't yet pitched in to help test this new version of your CRM, now is a great time.

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September 18, 2013
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Community, Sustainability

For the past eight years, CiviCRM's core team have been shipping a free, powerful, industry-leading solution for non-profit organizations. This blog post examines how we have achieved this -- and what it will take to continue delivering a great product for the next eight years.

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September 11, 2013
By colemanw Filed under Release announcements

Today marks the second beta release of CiviCRM 4.4. Congratulations to the CiviCRM community of developers; many people worked tirelessly to make this happen. If you haven't yet pitched in to help test this new version of your CRM, now is a great time.

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September 10, 2013
By michaelmcandrew Filed under CiviCon

This October 3rd and 4th, it's CiviCon London 2013 - CiviCRM's Annual European Conference.  CiviCon London is two days jam packed with super-interesting and informative sessions showing you how to make the most out of CiviCRM at your organisation.  It's the best place for you to meet and network with people that can give you advice, share best practice, and help you with your CiviCRM project.

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September 6, 2013
By SarahGladstone Filed under CiviEvent, CiviCRM, Extensions, Schools

There is a new native extension available for allowing parents to register their children for events within CiviEvent.  Tired of using custom data fields on a child to collect information about their parents and emergency contacts?    Would you like the information collected during the event registration to create ( or update ) the various contact records needed in the back-office?  Then this is the extension for you.

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September 6, 2013
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Community, Sustainability

A massive thank you to all the service providers (listed below) who signed up as founding partners and helped us exceed our fundraising goals for the partner program. In total, we raised $90,000 from 43 founding partners (our goal was $75,000) which is a fantastic step for the sustainabilty of the project and shows the strength and diversity of our service provider ecosystem. 

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September 6, 2013
By alejandro_salgado Filed under CiviCRM, Community, Internationalization and Localization

Last January we shared here that the Spanish - Mexico (MX) translation project of CiviCRM was completed thanks to the community of translators. Even though this was a huge accomplishment, other challenges remained.

The Challenges

Having the Spanish - Mexico (MX) project translated was great, but definitely not enough.

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September 5, 2013
By Stoob Filed under CiviCRM, Documentation, Training

CiviTeacher.com has just arrived!

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September 5, 2013
By colemanw Filed under Release announcements

Today marks the first beta release of CiviCRM 4.4. Congratulations to the CiviCRM community of developers; many people worked tirelessly to make this happen. If you haven't yet pitched in to help test this new version of your CRM, now is a great time.

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