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March 5, 2013
By Anonymous Filed under Meetups

Date/time: Wednesday 27th March 2013, 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Venue: Manta Ray Media Ltd., Finsbury Business Centre, 40 Bowling Green Lane, London EC1R0NE

Information/Registration: http://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=288

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March 3, 2013
By jamienovick Filed under CiviCRM, Extensions

New Contact calendar extension available from Compucorp!

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March 1, 2013
By totten Filed under Architecture, CiviCRM

As of March 1st, the official source-code repository of CiviCRM has switched from Subversion to Github. Git and Github provide a number of advantages:

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February 28, 2013
By kurund Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce the first beta release for 4.3 with support for Drupal 7.x, Joomla 2.5.x and WordPress.

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February 26, 2013
By colemanw Filed under Sprints

If you follow the CiviCRM blog, you've probably seen a few articles about how much fun the sprints are and what a great time everyone has. Maybe you've thought to yourself, "That's not for me. I'm not a PHP programmer or a database fanatic." Well, I'm here to say that you, yes you can come to the sprint - if you don't write code you can help write the user guide. The only prerequisites are enthusiasm about CiviCRM and a willingness to help out (and a laptop).

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February 25, 2013
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM, Marketing and Promotion

CiviCRM is currently used by thousands of organizations around the world, and an increasing percentage of the product and associated services come directly from the community. At the same time, as with any open source project, there are core 'keeping the lights on' activities that are critical to ensure the ongoing growth and health of the project.

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February 24, 2013
By parvez Filed under CiviReport

For those of us that have tried CiviReport with ACL's and custom data, we'll be aware of the issue that in order to use the custom data in reports the user must have Access All Custom Data privilege enabled. This is not the desired functionality and thanks to funding from Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research a patch is available which cures the problem, allowing you to use ACL's with Custom data without compromising the CiviReport functionality.

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February 22, 2013
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Sprints

'Is it that time of the release cycle already?', I hear ye sayeth! Well yes my medieval friends, it is! Version 4.3 has some lovely new features and I'm sure you will want to be upgrading soon.

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February 20, 2013
By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce the third alpha release for 4.3 with support for Drupal 7.x, Joomla 2.5.x and WordPress.

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February 20, 2013
By Anonymous Filed under Meetups

Date/time: Wednesday 27th February, 2013 6:00 PM  (till 8:30PM)

Location: Gamesys, 10 Piccadilly, 4th Floor Reception, London, W1J 0DD

Registration: http://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=284

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