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Friday 18th March is the deadline for submitting sessions for CiviCon Colorado. Read more about the conference tracks and what we're looking for and submit your session on the conference website. At this stage you only need to submit a topic and a short summary, so what are you waiting for? Get you session proposal in today!
Mark your calendars: the API team will be doing a webinar introducing API version 4 on Thursday March 24 at 12:15pm EST. Can't wait until then? Check out Coleman's blog post and the the work-in-progress API4 Extension.
There's no better way to get to know the CiviCRM community than to help organise one of our conferences. If you're planning on coming to CiviCon London this year, why not get in contact with Sean, our conference lead, and see how you can help out. Fun and learning guarunteed.
Mark Hannah is taking CiviCRM entity to new heights. Check out his blog post for details on what you can do with CiviCRM entity today, plans for the future of the module, and ways that you can help out.
Are you writing tests for your CiviCRM extensions yet? Testing in CiviCRM can be trickier than testing a basic library but we are trying to make it easy as possible. Check out Tim Otten's blog post which details new tools and updated documentation to help you ensure your extensions are fully tested and stable.
If you're looking for a way to dip your toe into contributing to CiviCRM, then check out the CiviCRM Stack Exchange - a Q&A site where folks go for free support for using CiviCRM. Answer questions and build up your reputation. If you've visited before, now is a great time to visit again.
Christian Maltais has been doing fantastic work copy-editing the features section of our website. Check out his blog post packed with tips on how to write good content on civicrm.org (and elsewhere). We're always on the look out for more copywriting talent so get in contact if you have skills to share.
Most people going to Vail, Colorado to ski. However, some come to work on making CiviCRM even better: to squash bugs, work on integration with Drupal 8, enhance CiviCRM for WordPress, improve the payment processing tools, and update the end-user documentation. Read more about what they got up to, and join us at the next one!
CiviDay - how was it for you?
Thanks to everyone that took part in CiviDay this year, and especially to the meetups in Amersfoort, Leipzig, New York City, Cologne, Paris, Denver and Dallas who found time to blog about their events. Check out the pics!
Community Shares are an investment mechanism available to Co-operative Societies in the UK. Kindling, a not for profit organisation based in northern England, are developing a community shares extension and are interested in talking to people who can help them develop the extension. Check out Rob's blog for more details.
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