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February 26, 2009
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCase, CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla

The third BETA release of version 2.2 - including CiviCase, Personal Campaign Pages, Soft Credits, Multi-value Custom Fields, cool new hooks for developers, and more - is now available for download. This release includes approximately 40 bug fixes., as well as some improvements in the personal campaign page functionality under Joomla! We've also integrated a Configuration Checklist which should make it easier for site administrators to complete initial configuration tasks on new installations. You can use the automated upgrade script to upgrade from 2.1.x OR from any previous 2.2 alpha or 2.2 beta 2. This release will be fully upgrade-able to any additional beta versions as well as 2.2 stable. Please help ensure a quality stable release by downloading and testing 2.2 beta against a copy of your site and data.

... If this is your first look at 2.2, check out the 2.2 Roadmap for a good overview. Or you can review a compete listing of new features, improvements and bug fixes on the issue tracker.

 
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February 26, 2009
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM
We had a good phone meeting with the Advisory Group yesterday. We also used the CiviCRM IRC Channel as the back channel for questions and related chatter. The planned agenda and pre-meeting discussion is documented on this wiki page. Dave Greenberg did a great job facilitating the meeting. We had all 10 of the advisory group members there (go group!). Here is a brief summary of what transpired and a few action items from the meeting: Advisory Group Process Accomplish and get done at what you commit to doing for the month Attendance expectation: 2 excused absences a year (this is common with most professional groups) Term limits: 2 year term. The first group is special, since half the group will only have a 1 year term. This allows us to maintain continuity and momentum within the group Group review every 6 months The mailing list and wiki will be the main coordination tools Eat your own dog food
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February 19, 2009
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla

The CiviCRM team is pleased to announce the formation of the CiviCRM Advisory Group. We chose folks that could represent the various constituencies and different regions, and who have been active in the community. Without further ado, the advisory group members are:

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February 13, 2009
By xavier Filed under CiviCRM
On every installation, you need to categorise your contacts, by what they are (journalists, volunteers, members of your organisations, big donors, politicians...), by what they are interested in (a specific topic, a specific region, age group, type of activity you offer...), by how you interact with them (do they receive your mailing list ? are they invited to your next event....)
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February 12, 2009
By chrisivens Filed under CiviCRM

I recently finished writing an addition to the events system that will allow pa's etc to book places for people to events and then return at a later date to confirm the names. As far as I know, this is in progress for v2.3 but basically I need it now. Apart from some testing the system should work without too much trouble.

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February 12, 2009
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla

The second BETA release of version 2.2 - including CiviCase, Personal Campaign Pages, Soft Credits, Multi-value Custom Fields and more - is now available for download. This release includes approximately 20 bug fixes, as well as some improvements in the personal campaign page and custom data / multiple records features.

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February 10, 2009
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM

We've been talking internally about the idea of a Community Advisory Group for CiviCRM. We're thinking that the project has grown to the point where there is sufficient momentum and a large enough community of users, integrators and developers to sustain and benefit from a group.

Some of our goals for the group are:

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February 9, 2009
By Andrew Clarke Filed under CiviCase

I was doing some other reading this week, and stumbled across this definition of case management:

The National Association of Social Workers Standards for Social Work Case Management (1995)defines case management as

… a method of providing services whereby the [professional] assesses the needs of the client and the client's family … and arranges, coordinates, monitors, evaluates, and advocates for a package of multiple services to meet the specific client's complex needs. These standards also emphasize interventions at micro-, mezzo- and

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February 5, 2009
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, Training

I will be giving an informal presentation on CiviCRM and Drupal on February 19th at 5:30pm in Santa Clara, CA. If you're using CiviCRM with Drupal (or are considering it) - and you're in the Bay Area, it would be great if you could join us.

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February 4, 2009
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla

The first BETA release of version 2.2 - including CiviCase, Personal Campaign Pages, Soft Credits, Multi-value Custom Fields and more - is now available for download. You can use the automated upgrade script to upgrade from 2.1.x OR from a 2.2 alpha site. This release will be fully upgrade-able to any additional beta versions as well as 2.2 stable. Please help ensure a quality stable release by downloading and testing 2.2 beta against a copy of your site and data.

... If this is your first look at 2.2, check out the 2.2 Roadmap for a good overview. Or you can review a compete listing of new features, improvements and bug fixes on the issue tracker.

 
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