The last few weeks of a release is always quite frustrating. The team is itching to get started with new development and get on with the next version. However, users are testing the beta release and filing new issues and bugs, few tweaks need to be done etc. So overall, things are in a neither here nor there status. However, once we mark a release as stable, we move most of the development team onto the new release and things get more exciting.
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August 17, 2007
By shot Filed under CiviCRMWe are excited to announce that our 1.8 release is now available for download, as well as testing on our demo site. We would like to thank our dedicated users for installing and testing the beta releases.
August 12, 2007
By lobo Filed under CiviCRMHere are a few drupal modules built and maintained by the community that seem quite useful. Thanks to all the folks who have spent time and energy maintaining and releasing these modules. Note that most of the project descriptions have been lifted from the project page on Drupal. If you have questions or bugs related to the below modules, please file them on the issue page of each module.
CiviCRM Subscribe: Allows users to subscribe (double opt-in) to a CiviCRM group without creating a Drupal user.August 10, 2007
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRMActivities and Activity History records are a critical part of the CRM equation. They allow organizations to get a detailed snapshot of the interactions with their constituents. As part of our 2.0 data model overhaul, we are planning major changes to the Activities data model. These changes are designed to:
Simplify the data model for activities by merging activity-related tables into a consolidated Activity table. Meeting, Phonecall, Activity History, Email History and SMS History will all be merged and dropped.
August 7, 2007
By lobo Filed under CiviCRMI got tired of waiting for someone to build an installer. So last weekend I decided to just do it. My original plan was to copy and modify the Joomla installer. I took a look at the code and it seemed to be quite well structured and modular. However it included a fair amount of code from Joomla itself and hence was quite big.
August 7, 2007
By lobo Filed under CiviCRMThe Drupal Association is rolling out its membership package. They are using CiviCRM and CiviMember to manage their members. You can get more details, join the association and become a member here. We do think that supporting open source projects is very important and essential to the health and well being of the project. Please do consider joining the association
From their introductory page:
August 4, 2007
By lobo Filed under CiviCRMKieran Lal from CivicSpace on Demand has made 1.8 Beta along with Drupal 5.2 available for free (mailing limit restrictions apply) on the CSOD web server. This is good news indeed and helps folks evaluate Drupal 5.2 and CiviCRM 1.8 without the install hassles. For more details you can read Kieran's post on the CiviCRM forums at:
CiviCRM 1.8 Beta sites on CivicSpaceOnDemand available for free
August 2, 2007
By michal Filed under Internationalization and LocalizationThis has been posted by my fellow team mate on the forum, but I since we want as many translations as possible, let's make others know, here's a repost to our blog. :-)
Piotr Szotkowski wrote:
August 1, 2007
By lobo Filed under Architecture, CiviCRMWes Morgan and the team at Code for change have decided to tackle something that is fairly important to quite a few medium - large sized organizations. Having support for this in CiviCRM would be really cool and we need your comments and feedback fairly quickly. Wes and team move at a very rapid pace, so please head over to the wiki page and give them and us feedback on the model and implementation.
July 30, 2007
By lobo Filed under CiviCRMWe are starting to run against a few java issues on our FreeBSD platform. Our current hosting provider, Electric Embers, only supports FreeBSD. Hence we need to find a new hosting provider.
Here are our requirements:
Two dedicated Ubuntu servers which mirror each other for backup purposes LAMP stack + java stack We do need root access and control over the boxes. We are fine doing software upgrades Provider should provide hardware monitoring and offsite backups. Support for software process monitoring would be great