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April 26, 2010
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Documentation

It's 5 to midnight and we're just wrapping up. Mr Kurund says that I can't go to bed until I've written this post, so...

Participating in the second book sprint is just as fascinating as it was the first time around, but the dynamic is definitely different. Having a book in place already makes a big difference - there's no panicking that we'll end up with the sections half finished, and it is easier to cover components when a lot of the design decisions have already been made. Having already written sections on the components is especially helpful when covering new components.

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April 25, 2010
By scyrma Filed under CiviCRM, Internationalization and Localization, Sprints

Well, it's been done, we chose the translation platform: Transifex. We're fully aware that we did not actually choose a platform that fully supports the ideal situation, but such a platform does not exists. This is more the choice of a promising back-end which we hope we can eventually develop into the ideal situation.

The interesting part in the discussion was finding a balance between the technical and functional interests.

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April 25, 2010
By michal Filed under CiviCRM, Internationalization and Localization, Sprints
That's right, you probably noticed there are two sprints going on here in Tahoe. You can read the report from the book sprint in Jack blog post, now it's time you found out what's the second sprint about.
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April 24, 2010
By jackaponte Filed under Documentation
It's 11pm in beautiful Truckee, CA, and the CiviCRM Book Sprint crew of twelve dedicated souls is still hard at work after a 10am start. We've come from across the US and around the globe to help update and improve the existing book, making it more useful for CiviCRM users, developers, implementers, and administrators.
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April 24, 2010
By michal Filed under CiviCon, CiviCRM
This Thursday, the first ever CiviCon took place. After five years of constant development of the CiviCRM project, we felt it was definitely time to have an in-person gathering of CiviCRM community members, talk about past, plan the future and enjoy being together. It was really a great day.
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April 21, 2010
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal

We had another super awesome day at DrupalCon SF 2010 today. Was great to watch and hear Cricket from Jane Goodall Institude proclaim: "I love CiviCRM!" to the audience :) To keep the momentum going, we've scheduled two BoF sessions for today. Please check the BoF notice board for the rooms.

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April 20, 2010
By AllenShaw Filed under Drupal
Originally posted at TwoMiceAndAStrawberry.com. I recently had to modify CiviCRM to support a specific use case for a client. In this project I needed to allow the user to enter anything in the Individual Prefix field, rather than choosing from a list of options. The client in this case was very sensitive about presenting the individual's honorific precisely as the individual wants, so that "Dr.," "Rev. Dr.," and "Most Rt. Rev. Dr." should all be possible, along with anything else the user might want to enter.
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April 19, 2010
By lobo Filed under Drupal, Schools

We had a great day at DrupalCon SF 2010 today, especially in our BoF sessions :) To keep the momentum going, we are planning to have a few more BoF sessions:

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April 16, 2010
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Meetups

Calling all Drupalers: we'll be holding two BOF sessions at Drupalcon this year. Both are on Monday in room 212. The first one, from 11am to midday, is aimed at end users and administrators. The second, from 4 to 5pm is aimed at developers. Come along to talk about all things CiviCRM-Drupal!

More details on the drupalcon BOF page. Looking forward to seeing you there!

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April 14, 2010
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla

The FSF just put out a press release recommending CiviCRM for non-profits. We've been working with the FSF very closely over the past 4 months to ensure that CiviCRM is licensing compliant (i.e. all the packages that we use and ship within CiviCRM are all compatible). This is an important milestone and a great endorsement for the project.

Some snippets from the FSF press release

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