Penguin Day is coming to San Francisco on Saturday, April 25, 2009, right before the NTC. The agenda includes several CiviCRM-related sessions - both for folks just checking out CiviCRM, and for experienced users / developers. Several members of the CiviCRM core team and our new Community Advisory Group will be in attendance as well as - so it's a great way to make "civi-connections".
You can register now at the Penguin Day site.
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April 8, 2009
By michaelmcandrew Filed under DocumentationDave Greenberg recently posted about our upcoming book sprint saying "almost every week folks ask whether there is a CiviCRM Book they can read".
So there must be something missing from the documentation. And given that the book will be in addition to what is on the Wiki - not a replacement for it - the two questions I am asking myself are:
'What are we missing in the documentation? And how should the documentation and the book complement each other?'
April 3, 2009
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla
The team has released version 2.2.2 with approximately 25 bug fixes and improvements. Notable fixes and improvements include:
Joomla! 1.5.10 - fix problems with the CiviCRM installer for the latest Joomla! release.
Drupal - load civicrm.css using drupal_add_css() to improve performance
Event Price Sets - specify default values for price set field options (radio button, select, checkbox fields)
You can review a complete list of 2.2.2 changes on the issue tracker.
March 31, 2009
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM, Documentation, Training
Almost every week folks ask whether there is a CiviCRM Book they can read to help them learn about all the cool things that CiviCRM can do. Thanks to a grant from the Information Program initiative of the Open Society Institute - we will soon have just that (a big tip of the hat to the Information Program Project Manager for making this happen!).
We will be writing the book using tools and techniques developed and hosted by Floss Manuals - whose mission is to provide quality manuals about how to use free software. Adam Hyde, the founder of the Floss Manuals project will be guiding a team of CiviCRM users, integrators and core team members through the process of creating the book during a 5-day Book Sprint to be held during the week of May 4. The team will also have editorial support from Andy Oram who is an editor for technical publisher and information provider O'Reilly Media, specializing currently in open source technologies and software engineering.
The finished book will be available as a free PDF download from the Floss Manuals site. Those who want a printed hard-copy book can purchase it for a nominal fee from the Floss Manuals store. Check out the How to Bypass Internet Censorship manual for an example of a finished product.
March 27, 2009
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM
The team has released version 2.2.1 with approximately 30 bug fixes and improvements. Notable improvements include:
Events: Provide a Drupal block which lists upcoming events
Mailings: allow users to cancel a running mail job
Contributions: re-introduce summary contribution information in search results
Pledges: support pay-later mode for pledge payments
You can review a complete list of 2.2.1 changes on the issue tracker.
March 25, 2009
By fmoretto Filed under CiviCRMIn brief: CiviCRM is having a good time here in Italy, associations and NGOs are very interested into the platform and how they may use it in order to reduce expenses and improve their "performance" in fund-raising tasks and management of databases.
March 25, 2009
By shot Filed under CiviEvent, CiviCRM, Drupal, JoomlaWe’ve just finished describing some of the new CiviEvent features we’d like to put in CiviCRM 2.3, including waitlisting and optional admin approval of participants. Please take a look at the CiviEvent - New Features for 2.3 wiki page and voice your opinions.
March 24, 2009
By xavierFiled under A quick braindump:
Profile are a great way of simplifying the interface and provide more focussed forms, but some of the goodies of the normal edit form are gone. For instance, the employer isn't anymore an autocomplete field. luckily, with the REST interface and a jquery autocomplete plugin, that's a few lines to add to make it work:
add on the templates/CRM/Profile/Form/Edit.tpl
{if $session->get('userID') > 0} {literal} jQuery(document).ready(function($) {March 19, 2009
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM
There are many places in CiviCRM where lists of records are presented... when you search for contacts, you get a list of contact records; when you go to manage events, you get a list of events; etc.
Kurund blogged recently about prototypes for improving usability for these record listings (we call them "selectors" internally)... and we got a lot of good feedback from that post.
Kurund and Amit on our team have now put up another iteration - which we'd love to have folks look at and comment on:
» Contact Listing
