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May 12, 2012
By polestar Filed under API, Extensions

Hey All, Thanks for your patience and putting up with the delays in the release of CiviSync Outlook. CiviSync Outlook is the much awaited Outlook integration plugin for CiviCRM. It allows information sync between CiviCRM and Microsoft Outlook. CiviSync Outlook uses CiviCRM API. Due to some restrictions with API; at one stage we decided to use our own version of the API but it's not something we would like to run with in long term and hence dropped it fairly quickly.

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May 12, 2012
By SarahGladstone Filed under CiviContribute, Extensions, Finance and Accounting, Internationalization and Localization

I am starting a project that will allow CiviCRM to support the needs of an Australian non-profit. This non-profit is subject to the Australian Goods & Services Tax rules (GST) for some but not all transactions.

The GST requirements apply whenever the non-profit provides a tangible good or service in exchange for a payment. This is most common with their dinners, selling DVDs, and items from their gift shop. 

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May 12, 2012
By Chris Wolfe Filed under Meetups

Fellow Civilians: Wednesday, 9 May, was another CiviCRM meet-up spectacular in London, hosted by Third Sector Design at TechHub.

Topics covered:

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May 11, 2012
By ElietHenderson Filed under CiviContribute, Case studies and user stories

At the April sprint, several of us discussed improvements to CiviCRM’s soft credit functionality. For those of us who use CiviCRM for fundraising, soft credits are vital component of managing donor relationships, and there are several ways CiviCRM could be improved to make soft credits more robust and easier to use.

Thanks to Kellie Brownell and Jane Hanley for their contributions to this blog post.

Some background:

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May 6, 2012
By ken Filed under CiviEvent

The Google Map on the Event Info page takes up valuable space: is a simple link to the map adequate?

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May 1, 2012
By Katy Jockelson Filed under Meetups

Here at Third Sector Design we're preparing for our next meet up which will take place on Wed 9th in Central London. The last one was excellent, with lots of people and 3 really interesting presentations on a wide range of topics.

This time we're going to be focusing on: 

* CiviMobile - a new mobile app for CiviCRM

* Making CiviCRM webcasts

* CiviCRM case studies

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April 27, 2012
By Owen Barton Filed under Drupal

The CiviCRM Drush integration recently got a fairly major refactoring (issue CRM-9986), and should be available with the CiviCRM 4.2 release.

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April 19, 2012
By JonGold Filed under Sprints
For years, I've wanted to give back to the open source communities I'm a part of. Often I'm told, "Write code." More than any other project I've seen, CiviCRM has created alternative ways of contributing back. At the code sprint, I met people brand new to CiviCRM contribute meaningfully by proposing (and critiquing) workflows for new features, create how-to screencasts, and more.
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April 19, 2012
By deepak.srivastava Filed under Release announcements

CiviCRM team is pleased to announce the next stable release of version 4.1 - with support for Drupal 7, Drupal 6, Joomla 1.7/2.5, and Wordpress 3.3. You can download the release now from Sourceforge.

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