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December 7, 2011
By lobo Filed under Documentation, Sprints

Continuing our amazing productivity during sprints, we introduce our 9th and final sprint of the year. This sprint is being held at the offices of De Goede Woning in Netherlands from Dec 12th - Dec 16th.

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December 7, 2011
By yashodhaFiled under

The team is excited to announce the second alpha release for 4.1 with support for Drupal 7, Drupal 6, Joomla 1.7, and the integration with Wordpress 3.3(wohoooo!!!).

 

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December 6, 2011
By FatherShawn Filed under Meetups

 

Please join us for the CiviCRM MeetUp Thursday, December 15 5:30-7:30pm by registering today!

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December 1, 2011
By yashodha Filed under CiviCRM, WordPress

The team is super excited to announce the first alpha release for 4.1 with support for Drupal 7, Drupal 6 (yes it is backwards compatible!!!), Joomla 1.7, and for the very first time integration with Wordpress (wohoooo!!!).

 

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November 29, 2011
By johns Filed under CiviCRM, Sprints

 

Late last month, I attended a two-day code sprint in New York for CiviCRM, the free software constituent relationship management system. I want to say a few words about it because I thought it was a great experience, and a good model for other free software projects to follow (many already do!).

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November 21, 2011
By adshill Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviCRM

Having just had to import data that included a membership number for a client, rather than make a new field for the number it made sense to use the Contact ID, given that this is already a consecutive number and unique to each contact. The problem was that over the years there were big gaps in the consecutive numbers.

 

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November 19, 2011
By davemFiled under

There are a range of materials that can be distributed to organisations interested in CiviCRM. These are currently available on http://civicrm.org/content/spreadtheword

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November 18, 2011
By davemFiled under

Following a couple of discussions of this, the consensus seems to be that having good coordinated training materials is important to a maturing product to give confidence to organisations buying into the ecosystem. The doumentation has moved along considerably in the new book and this structure seems a reasonable place to start for creating a set of training videos. 

Anyone currently working on video?

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November 17, 2011
By laryn Filed under CiviCampaign, Case studies and user stories, Extensions

In doing some research for a potential project, I was exploring what kinds of eAdvocacy options were available to plug in to CiviCRM. Many of the big commercial eAdvocacy tools have big commercial price tags to go with them (and don't integrate directly with CiviCRM besides).

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November 16, 2011
By Eileen Filed under API

As many of you know with 3.4 & 4.0 a new API came out (APIv3). The new API had a number of improvements over the previous v2 including

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