The Nonprofit Technology Network - NTEN - is holding it's annual conference in San Francisco next April. This is the largest annual gathering of the non-profit tech community in the U.S - and it's a great opportunity for folks in our CiviCRM community to connect and share and help promote CiviCRM.
This year NTEN is using a new voting process to decide which sessions get included in the schedule. Three exciting CiviCRM-related sessions are on the "ballot" - thanks to David Geilhufe, Michelle Murrain (Non Profit Open Source Initiative), Sue Gardner (Wikimedia Foundation), Wes Morgan (Fund for the Public Interest), Rick Cohen (National Council of Nonprofit Associations), and Jeff Porter (Foundation for Prader-Willi Research).
Even if you're not sure about attending NTC - help get these sessions on the schedule by taking a few minutes to vote for them. All you need to do is go to the linked pages below and click on the "stars":
Anatomy of Open-source Fundraising - Wikimedia Foundation
Events Management: Tales from the Trenches
Selecting and Implementing Open Source Constituent Relationship Management: views from the trenches with CiviCRM, MPower & Sugar
The New Peacebuilding Paradigm: Women in Connection x the Internet = Exponential Change
Take a few minutes and VOTE NOW. It's a quick and easy way to "give back" and help CiviCRM grow and thrive.
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September 18, 2008
By kurundFiled under It was an eventful period after beta 4. With excellent support from the community, we were able to identify and close quite a few trivial issues (and a few critical ones). The fifth 2.1 Beta distribution (probably last one before stable) is now available for download on SourceForge.
For all those eagerly waiting to being translation work on 2.1, we are now in "string freeze" - and the translation site has been updated with 2.1 files: http://translations.civicrm.org
If you are planning on using new 2.1 features AND / OR upgrading an existing site to 2.1 - NOW is the time to test the upgrade with YOUR DATA and identify any remaining issues with new or existing features. The development team will actively work with you resolve any upgrade issues during this phase of the release cycle. If you are unable to test the release by downloading it - then the next best thing is to try out the new features, bug fixes, as well as the workflows you use most often by logging in to the public demo.
September 15, 2008
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM, DrupalThe CiviCRM team will have pretty good representation at BADCamp in Berkeley on Oct 11/12. A few of our senior developers from India (Yashodha, Deepak and Kurund) will be in the Bay Area at that time. We are also hoping that either Michal or Piotr from Poland will join the party.
September 12, 2008
By mchapman2000 Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, TrainingIf you're going to be in Los Angeles for DrupalCamp this weekend, stop by the Sunday 3:00pm (or possibly 4:15pm) session on the beginners track for an Intro to CiviCRM. We'll cover basic some basic set-up, usage, and have a brief discussion about what makes CiviCRM different from other Drupal modules. Appropriate for Advanced Drupal users who are new to CiviCRM, or total newbies.
**EDIT: Time corrected, but watch the posted schedules at the Convention center to be sure.
September 11, 2008
By haggan Filed under CiviMember, CiviCRM, DrupalIam using drupal 5.10 and civicrm 2.0 on a server that I maintain. The server is running Scientific Linux 5.2 and I have compiled Gammu version 1.20.0 on it. http://www.gammu.org is "Free tools and software for cellular devices and phones". I can use it for sending SMS via a old cellular phone in my case an Sony Ericsson T290i connected with the usb cable DCU-11. I have set up Gammu to use an mysql db for reciving and sending sms.
September 9, 2008
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRMNTEN's 2009 annual conference is being held in San Francisco April 26-28. The deadline for submitting session proposals is September 12th (yes - really soon).
David Geilhufe is going to submit several session proposals - and needs a few more folks who are planning on being at the conference AND who are willing to discuss any or all of the following topics as part of a panel:
September 9, 2008
By Dave GreenbergFiled under The fourth (and probably final) 2.1 Beta distribution is now available for download on SourceForge. If you are planning on using new 2.1 features AND / OR upgrading an existing site to 2.1 - NOW is the time to test the upgrade with YOUR DATA and identify any remaining issues with new or existing features. The development team will actively work with you resolve any upgrade issues during this phase of the release cycle. If you are unable to test the release by downloading it - then the next best thing is to try out the new features, bug fixes, as well as the workflows you use most often by logging in to the public demo.
September 8, 2008
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRMGenerally I think that the CiviCRM community works together in a very positive way. Whether on the forums, IRC or during the precious (but a bit too rare) occasions that we gather in the flesh - folks seem to treat each other with respect and patience.
However, as the community grows - it seems like it would be useful to follow the lead of several other successful open source communities and adopt a "Code of Conduct" which we can refer to and use to help maintain a supportive and collaborative atmosphere.
September 8, 2008
By deepak.srivastavaFiled under
CiviCRM India team had an opportunity to attend the OWASP-conference, New Delhi. It was a two day conference but we - Kurund, Sunil & I decided to attend the second day training/workshops just to stay away from theoretical lectures. We landed in Delhi on day-1 evening to avoid any last minute rush. And we realized the temperature in Mumbai was much better and Delhi being a bit hot.
September 5, 2008
By michaelmcandrew Filed under CiviCRMThanks to Oliver Gibson (ICT champion for North West England) for finding us a venue for the next CiviCRM UK usergroup: Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisations (GMCVO) from 2.00 to 4.30pm on 30th September.
