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gener 30, 2009
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM, Joomla

UPDATE: Please use the v2.2 beta downloads. The below version is now obsolete

In conjunction with some awesome folks in the Joomla core team and Elin Waring (mcsmom), we've restructured the CiviCRM install process for J! 1.5.9 in the hope of increasing the install success rate on shared hosting. There are changes to the front end (contributed by Elin) to simplify menu creation.

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gener 29, 2009
By chrisivens Filed under CiviCRM

I'm hoping by posting this I can get a feel for how useful a Sage plugin and associated module for CiviCRM would be. We have a client that needs to have transactions from the various portions of CiviCRM that tend money to be recorded in their accounting package. I personally think it would be a great addition and being a client requirement, it has been factored into the costs.

There are several considerations as to how to approach this, I have thought of a good few ways of achieving the goal but I’d like if I may to ask for a little help fleshing out the details.

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gener 29, 2009
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCase, CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla, Training
Introduction to CiviCase Claire Sauve from Physician Health Program will be joining me in presenting an introduction to our new CiviCase component. The session will be an online web conference with phone dial-in, so participants can discuss interests and questions. No pre-registration is required - but drop me an email if you're planning on attending - dave at civicrm dot org. When: Wednesday, February 4 at 11:00am PST Toll Free Dial-in (U.S. & Canada): 1-866-740-1260 International Dial-in: click here for listings Participant Access Code: 8467471 Web Conference URL: https://www1.callinfo.com/prt?host=readytalk&an=8667401260&ac=8467471   Depending on participant interest, topics will include:
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gener 28, 2009
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM

Earlier today we had a conference call with a few consulting firms and individuals who integrate and deploy CiviCRM for clients. There were approximately 15 folks in the room. The agenda and quite a few comments are documented on this wiki page.

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gener 27, 2009
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM

Some links to recent blog posts about CiviCRM. We've also started tweeting about CiviCRM. You can follow us here

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gener 26, 2009
By xavier Filed under CiviCRM

Hi,

As you know, CiviCRM collects informations about the installations, like numbers of contacts, what modules are used.

I'm wondering if you would find useful to have more statistics in a new reporting screen on your installation (beside the numbers of records, knowing how many are tagged, have a postal address, have a phone, have relationships...).

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gener 23, 2009
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla

I spent some time analyzing data that we've been collecting over the past few months. In v2.1 we added a ping back feature which lets us know what component folks are using and the size of some of the tables (which gives us an estimate of the size of the site etc). All information is hashed and we do not record any IP addresses. Details of what we collect are in a prior blog post

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gener 22, 2009
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviContribute, CiviCRM, Drupal

We are excited to announce that a second Alpha release for 2.2 is now available for download, AND to try out on our sandbox site. We are working hard on making upgrades as painless as possible by providing an automated upgrade to this latest release FROM ANY VERSION of 2.1 as well as from 2.2 Alpha 1.

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gener 20, 2009
By michaelmcandrew Filed under CiviCRM
Dave Moreton and I have organised a meeting for UK developers and consultants working with CiviCRM in the UK. We want to have a discussion around the following ideas: 1) Localised development and support for non profits that use CiviCRM in the UK, and 2) Improving the links between developers and end-users in UK and the CiviCRM core team.
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gener 16, 2009
By cap10morgan Filed under CiviCRM

One of the new features in version 2.2 of CiviCRM (in alpha release as of this posting) is a new contact import system. I'll delve into the technical details in a bit, but at a conceptual level, this new design should allow more flexibility in the import system down the road. The first hint of this in the 2.2 release is the new SQL Query data source option.

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