Blog posts by michaelmcandrew

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Januar 19, 2016
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Community

We've thought a bit about how we communicate with you and are rolling out some changes to make it easier for you to keep up to date with the things you are interested in.  We're splitting our regular monthly community newsletter into User news, written for end users and others that are interested in keeping up with product developments (tips of how to make the most out of CiviCRM, new features, user focused events, etc.) and Contributor news, written for peop

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Januar 18, 2016
By michaelmcandrew Filed under CiviCon, Community, CiviDay

Here's a quick run down of major CiviCRM events for your calendar for 2016.

CiviDay - locations around the world - February 24th CiviCon North West Europe - 26th May CiviCon Colorado
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November 25, 2015
By michaelmcandrew Filed under CiviCon

Following the success of CiviCon Denver 2015, we'll be headed back to Colorado again in 2016 - to the beautiful city of Fort Collins - for our annual north American CiviCRM conference.

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November 17, 2015
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Community, Meetups

CiviDay - our annual celebration of all things CiviCRM is coming up on Wednesday 24th February 2016. Find out what CiviCRM can do for you, meet others that are using CiviCRM nearby, and find out what CiviCRM services are available locally.

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Oktober 3, 2015
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Documentation

A while ago I did a test migration of CiviCRM's user and admin documentation to gitbook and said that I'd also do a migration to readthedocs so we could compare the two.  I finally got round to completing the readthedocs migration so wanted to share with you some impressions so far, the advantages and disadvantages are of both systems.

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September 28, 2015
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Community

We thought it was about time that we published some job descriptions for the core team - to make it clearer what each of us works on, and is responsible for.  Up until now, you would have had to be pretty well aquainted with the core team to understand what everyone did, and even then you probably wouldn't know everything we got up to. This is an effort to better present our work to the community and we hope it will be useful to you.

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September 1, 2015
By michaelmcandrew Filed under CiviCon

It's Almost Time for our annual User Summit Washington DC (24 and 25 September) and our UK conference CiviCon London (8 and 9 October)!

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August 19, 2015
By michaelmcandrew Filed under CiviCon

If you've ever wondered how much it costs to put on a CiviCon and the associated trainings and sprint - how much money we take and how we spend it - then this blog post if for you.

Conference

Ticket sales: $11,307Sponsorship: $31,500Total income: $42,807

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Juli 4, 2015
By michaelmcandrew Filed under CiviCon

If you're a particularly keen CiviCRM observer, you'll have noticed that we've been slowly uploading finished edited CiviCon Denver videos to our youtube channel.  I'm please to report that all our videos are now online and you can browse them on this CiviCon Denver playlist.

So enjoy them, share them, and catch up on any sessions you missed!

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Juni 26, 2015
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Tips

Are you tasked with making your instance of CiviCRM the best it can be? Do you like keeping up with the latest tips and techniques in CiviCRM land? Then you should definitley sign up for the weekly newsletter from our new Stack Exchange site.

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