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By FarhadKhanFiled under
For many associations, the annual conference is the crown jewel of the calendar year. It’s where members gather, sponsors show up in full force, and learning happens at scale. But what happens when the lights go down and the booths come down?
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By SYSTOPIAFiled under

At SYSTOPIA, we've built and maintain a wide range of tools, from CiviCRM extensions to Drupal modules and more. With around 60 repositories under active management, we're dedicated to enhancing the CiviCRM ecosystem. In this release, we're happy to present our CiviProxy Extension – a customizable security solution for your CiviCRM installation.

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By SYSTOPIAFiled under

At SYSTOPIA, we develop and maintain a variety of CiviCRM extensions, Drupal modules, and other useful tools. With over 60 active repositories, we’re always working to improve CiviCRM. In this edition of our "Extension of the Month" series, we introduce the Birthdays extension – a simple way to keep track of your contacts' birthdays.

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By josh Filed under Community

Consistent with our push over the past year to optimize CiviCRM brand awareness, we recently rebooted the monthly Community News email and began cross promotion of it and its individual items (blog posts, event announcements, etc.) on to other channels such as LinkedIn and Blue Sky.

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By davemFiled under

During the Point Montara Lighthouse Sprint, Alain Benbassat, David Moreton, and Don Hirst worked on making the CiviCRM documentation better with a more robust but easy to follow process for producing and improving docs.

We started with the Diátaxis Framework, which has the core idea that: 

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By marcusjwilson Filed under Community, Meetups
This year, CiviCRM turns 20 years old. We’ll be marking this milestone by launching a new series of CiviCRM quarterly meetup events for those in Scotland and further afield.
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By EileenFiled under

Since the middle of last year there have been some tools in CiviCRM core to help with maintaining workflow templates that have not been well publicised … Notably Site Tokens (worked on at the South Carolina Sprint by Allen Shaw of Joinery) and some tweaks for easier editing in the Message Admin extension (which ships as part of CiviCRM but which you may need to enable). 

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By devteam Filed under Release announcements

CiviCRM version 6.2.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

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By SYSTOPIAFiled under

In this blog series, we introduce useful extensions for CiviCRM. Each month, we showcase one of the many extensions we have developed at SYSTOPIA over the years. This time, we're looking at the Twingle API Extension – a practical solution to automatically transfer donations from Twingle to CiviCRM.

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