We are excited to announce the publication of Using CiviCRM, by Packt Publishing – the first full-length, commercially published book covering implementation, configuration, and usage of CiviCRM.
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February 21, 2011
By planigan Filed under CiviCase, CiviCRM, ExtensionsMany non-profits live and die by the grant money that they are able to bring in. CiviCRM can currently track incoming grant applications through CiviGrant, but there is no way to track outgoing grants applications.
February 21, 2011
By Dave GreenbergFiled under We had a lively meetup at Wikimedia Foundation HQ in San Francisco last week with a nice turnout (around 15 folks), despite the super crummy weather (again :-( ). Jackie Downing, Development and Communications Manager at the Gay-Straight Alliance Network shared their experiences implementing and using CiviCRM and Drupal. GSA Network empowers youth activists to fight homophobia in schools. If you've heard of the Make it Better Project - you've seen some of the great work they are doing.
February 17, 2011
By seank Filed under MeetupsThe first CiviCRM user group meeting of 2011 took place on Thursday 10th Feb at the Create Centre in Bristol, the first in a while, but with several more programmed in for the coming year to attempt to make it more of a fixture in the UK CiviCRM community.
February 16, 2011
By xavier Filed under API, ArchitectureThis new API is the recommended method to Create, Get, Delete or Update any CiviCRM data from your code or an external system. It is much more coherent and easier to use than the api v2.
February 13, 2011
By xcf33 Filed under CiviCRM, DrupalWhen I first started to use CiviCRM, because of all the functionalities and features. Often overlooked is the fact that there's no confirmation email option for users who completes a profile form.
A confirmation email in this case help reinforce the relationship between the organization and its users. As I understand this feature has been sought before and perhaps it is time to bring into CiviCore?
A new forum topic for this can be found below:
February 11, 2011
By michaellenahan Filed under CiviCRM, Meetups, TrainingWe're just back from the first UK CiviCRM user group meeting of 2011, hosted by Circle Interactive http://www.circle-interactive.co.uk in Bristol.
An engaged group of users and a lively discussion on growing the CiviCRM community. We'll be holding more user group meetups throughout the year in Bristol, London and Manchester.
In addition there are two training events coming up.
February 10, 2011
By Eileen Filed under ArchitectureIt seems like time to give people a quick update as to what api v3 is about. API v3 will be shipping with CiviCRM 3.4 and basically it's like v2 but more so. Well, it's like bits of v2 api and all the other bits have been changed to be like those bits... make sense?
February 8, 2011
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM, Security ReleasesThe team is excited to announce the release of CiviCRM 3.3.5 - it is now available for download. You can also try it out on our demo site. Apart from fixing a few bug issues, this release contains two critical security updates:
Cross site scripting problem, where the site can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript. Permissioning vulnerability, which allowed anonymous users to potentially change information for another contact.
Please consider doing an upgrade as soon as possible to avoid potential security risks. If you have already upgraded using the 3.3.4 release package - and you did not experience any errors during the upgrade - then you already have the security patches installed and you do not have to upgrade to this release at this time.
