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December 19, 2012
By ChrisChinchilla Filed under CiviCon, CiviCRM, Meetups

 

 

It's with great regret that the Australia/New Zealand CiviCRM community announce the postponement of our first CiviCon. Whilst we had received some fantastic offers of sponsorship and session proposals, we just weren't getting the public registrations required to run such an event.

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December 11, 2012
By alejandro_salgado Filed under Meetups

December 13th., Big Day for CiviCRM Spanish-spoken community

2 simultaneous events in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and OpenExpo in Madrid (Spain)

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December 7, 2012
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Meetups

The concept behind CiviDay is pretty simple: all the local CiviCRM meet ups organise a meet up on the same day: January 23rd 2013.  And we use this as an opportunity to grow and strengthen local CiviCRM communities and create new ones.

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December 6, 2012
By KarinG Filed under Extensions

This module produces CRA compliant Tax Receipts. It's currently housed in the Drupal Sandbox: http://drupal.org/sandbox/semperit/1289724 - lots of development on its way to include more features and to bring it up to the level of a full Drupal project with stable releases for both D6/D7 and a variety of CiviCRM versions. After these releases future development will focus on making this into a CiviCRM extension.

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December 6, 2012
By bgm Filed under CiviContribute, Extensions

An organisation I work with wishes to extend the Personal Campaign Page (PCP) to allow teams to raise money either using their group PCP page, or individual PCP pages of each team member. In other words, the team organiser creates a PCP page and sets a team objective. The organiser then invites members to join its group. By doing so, the team member creates its own PCP page with a personnal objective.

In terms of functionality:

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December 3, 2012
By andie Filed under Documentation

Do you modify template files for your site?  If so, you ought to know the tedious process of updating all the overridden template files every time you upgrade.  (If you don't know that pain, either you've never upgraded or you should quit reading and go check your customized files.)

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November 29, 2012
By Slovak Filed under Meetups

Join the next meeting of the Dallas / Fort Worth CiviCRM Meetup group on Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 6:00 PM. We meet every send Tuesday at Improving Enterprises in Addison.

Join the group for a look at the variety of uses for CiviCRM profiles - ways to populate your contact database.

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November 27, 2012
By Eileen Filed under CiviCon

Come to the inaugural CiviCon Downunder!!! CiviCon Sydney 2013 - I'm Going!

 

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November 23, 2012
By michaelmcandrew Filed under API, Case studies and user stories, Extensions

For the past few months we have been working with Future First, who have an ambitious mission of 'creating an alumni network for every state school in the UK'. A key part of this work is the ability to track and engage with recent school leavers and we've spent a fair amount of time building tools that allow them to do this.

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