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By parvez Filed under CiviMail

Wouldn't it be nice if Macilhimp was tightly integrated into CiviCRM?

Well, thanks to funding from Zing, work to better integrate CiviCRM to Mailchimp has begun.

We've put together the key functions we're aiming to deliver, taking on the existing https://civicrm.org/extensions/mailchimp-sync integration built by Derek Williams @ Science Gallery.

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By kreynen Filed under Community, Make it happen

The developers who've already volunteered to help mentor students, organizations that agreed to give back by allowing their staff to co-mentor a project, and everyone who's already submitted project ideas deserve a HUGE THANKS!! We got the level of participation we needed to submit the official application to Google for CiviCRM to be mentoring organization...

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By capo Filed under Meetups

Yesterday was a great day for CiviCRM in Madrid. During the CiviDay, in Madrid, we announced the creation of a new CiviCRM working group that would start working the 11th February. We limited the number of participants to 25... and we had to close the inscription form fast because a lot of people was interested! Finally, we had our first meeting, and everybody was there. :-)

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By universalhandle Filed under Extensions

This weekend I pushed out version 1.3 of CiviVolunteer. It contains a handful of bugfixes (check out the commit history for more on that) and a new feature that is the subject of this post.

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By ChrisChinchilla Filed under CiviReport

I’m not sure if this will be any use to anyone else, but I needed somewhere to write down the process, so you never know. After migration some of our custom reports have gone walkabouts and are showing this error message… 

"Could not find template for this report instance"

It seems that something has become broken and the path to the report and the report template no longer match, so reregistering / creating brings the reports back to life.

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By totten Filed under Architecture, CiviCase

(This post is a follow-up to previous discussions about developing recruitment functionality for CiviHR.

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By Slovak Filed under CiviCon

76 days until CiviCon 2014 and this volunteer-organized event needs you!  Yes you. Specifically you! We are looking for session proposals, such as: 

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By Eileen Filed under Community

As many of you know Drupal South is on next week in Wellywood. We don't have a big community down under but we are certainly keen to make you feel welcome in NZ

We will be running BOFs over the weekend & catching up for dinner on the Thursday night.

https://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=419

If you are still around on the Monday & Tuesday we might look at a mini sprint. Drop us a line & say hello!

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By colemanw Filed under Release announcements, Security Releases

There has just been a security advisory for CiviCRM. We recommend you immediately upgrade to one of the following newly released versions:

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By lwupagano Filed under Drupal 7, Tips

Because of the way the synchronization process works with the UF_Match table, deleting records can be tricky business.   If done in the incorrect order, your CiviCRM database can end up with a bunch of Junk contact records.  Below is a best practice process for removing records, first the Drupal user record should be deleted then the CiviCRM record.

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