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March 18, 2013
By lhubbert Filed under Case studies and user stories, Schools

 

Lisa presented this work at the SF Meetup in March. Her presentation slides are here

Three years ago I set up a Drupal-based community site for our children’s K-8 public charter school. As the school’s needs grew, I integrated CiviCRM to enable online enrollment, tour registration, ticket sales, volunteer hour tracking, and other functionality that had previously been accomplished through unwieldy paper forms.

 

As I began to work more closely with a local arts education non-profit, I realized the lessons I had learned from working on the school site were directly applicable to the organization’s needs. SFArtsED runs a summer camp program for children. Till this year, all registrations were completed  on a paper form that was sent, along with a check, via snail mail. The Registrar mailed back four forms to the parent, who filled them out and mailed them back to SFArtsEd, along with a receipt for payment. Last month I set out modernize their camp enrollment process using Drupal, CiviCRM, Ubercart and Webform Integration.

 
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March 16, 2013
By deepak.srivastava Filed under Architecture, CiviCRM

After my previous blog post, i have been working on making progress on working model w.r.t NoSQL and config. Starting with civicrm cache was a good idea. Keeping in mind NoSQL, new config system and what Eileen has already done with settings, here is what i planned and accomplished  :

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March 15, 2013
By pdelbar Filed under Release announcements

When you think of it, it's quite amazing : open source communities bring out the best in people. Like all of you who participated in the first Bug Smithing Day, and ran 4.3 beta through a series of real-life tests, upgrades and API scripts. Even if you didn't find a bug, thou art truly thanked for thy effort.

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March 14, 2013
By colemanw Filed under Release announcements

The CiviCRM community has reached another milestone: announcing the third beta release of 4.3 for Drupal 6-7, Joomla 2.5.x and WordPress. This has been a true community effort with people from around the world participating in Ye Bugsmithing Day - 45 issues were fixed as a result of that group effort.

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March 7, 2013
By petednz Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal

After several dead ends I think we have something that is useful to share - just add a Tag - not as useful as having it as an Action after Adv Search perhaps - but with other possibilities that I like.

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March 6, 2013
By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

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

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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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