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October 28, 2011
By jalama Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal

Recently we spent some time cleaning up the code base for Drupal's Views module in CiviCRM. This will be reflected in the 4.1 release of CiviCRM, at this point this was all written for Drupal 7, though should be portable to Drupal 6. There were a couple new features thrown in but much of this will focus on making the code base a little more efficient and easier to read.

The two major tasks were:

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October 20, 2011
By bgm Filed under Internationalization and Localization, Meetups

Four of the fr_CA translators team met in Montreal yesterday to discuss how to communicate, prioritize and exchange tips and tricks on how to translate CiviCRM.

We would also like to get in contact with other translation teams to know how they work. Here are some topics we discussed:

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October 19, 2011
By yashodha Filed under CiviCRM

Important: This release includes critical fixes to resolve conflict between civicrm and jquery update drupal module.This point release has quite a few bug fixes as listed here. Some of recently added features have been included in the last release blog post

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October 18, 2011
By annaleevk Filed under CiviEvent, CiviMail, CiviMember, CiviReport, Case studies and user stories, CiviCRM, Drupal

I recently completed a conversion of about 8 years of history from a 5 year old Blackbaud Kintera site to a Drupal CiviCRM solution. Confused yet? Don't worry, all we be revealed in time. As a way of giving back, I am planning to share my experiences good and bad, what worked, what did not, what I learned and what I will and won't do next time.

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October 17, 2011
By LindseyM Filed under CiviCRM

I’m based with a group of three churches in Bristol, UK and we transitioned to Civi in June 2011, integrating it with our new Drupal 7 website. We’re loving Civi’s functionality and the customization it allows, but there is one thing on my wishlist which may be on yours too – the ability to deal easily with recurring events, including reporting on attendance.

 

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October 16, 2011
By colemanw Filed under CiviCampaign, CiviCase, CiviEvent, Case studies and user stories, Drupal, Extensions
I've just released the stable 2.0 version of the Drupal Webform CiviCRM Integration module and wanted to share some of the cool new things you can do with it. Version 1, which I wrote earlier this year, was basically built for a single purpose: you could have a user fill out a webform, and their contact record (name, address, email, etc.) would be created/updated and an activity of the form submission would be logged. That alone is pretty darn useful, but suggestions from users, the advent of API v3, and a commission from the core team got me setting sights higher for the next release.
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October 15, 2011
By jeff porter Filed under CiviContribute, API, Case studies and user stories, CiviCRM

As most non-profits know, driving revenue exclusively off of events can be a hit or miss adventure.  Revenues YOY are not consistent, and its difficult to find those supporters who will organize and host fundraising events to support your cause.  Many are intimidated by hosting large fundraisers or simply don't have the time or resources to pull it off.  So to sum up our problem: we needed a broader more consistent source of revenue to fund our programs.     To expand our source of revenue, we looked to our community of donors, families, and fundraisers to raise money on our behalf through their own social networks.  The average user on facebook has 30 friends [http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics] which means that we could exponentially increase our reach through online social networking interaction.  All we needed was to setup the campaign pages platform and get people started.

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October 14, 2011
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCon, CiviCRM

For those of you who are thinking about ways you can promote your business as well as help support and grow the CiviCRM community :-) ...

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October 11, 2011
By gibsonoliver Filed under CiviContribute, CiviCRM

Our idea is that a Room Booking Module would be a fantastic addition to CiviCRM.

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October 7, 2011
By ElietHenderson Filed under Case studies and user stories, Meetups
San Francisco Baykeeper's case study of moving from Blackbaud Raiser's Edge to CiviCRM was the featured topic at this month's San Francisco meetup. I previously wrote about our transition in this blog and wanted to provide an up-to-date look at that process, plus our latest advances and ongoing challenges. Baykeeper has now been successfully using CiviCRM for almost a year. There were around 15 people at the meetup, and we had a lively discussion with lots of Q and A during the presentation.
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