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By seamuslee Filed under Case studies and user stories, Extensions

The Australian Greens developed 2 new custom searches to enable us to do data clean-up and to monitor for spam records that were coming into our system, mainly through the Drupal user registration form.

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By cividesk Filed under Drupal 7

Cividesk is one of the leading CiviCRM service providers. Giving Back is a cornerstone of our company culture, and we proudly support many charitable and humanitarian organizations with pro-bono or reduced-cost services.

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By KarinG Filed under Community

Karin used to write code for musculoskeletal computer models/simulations at The University of Calgary and at Arizona State University as well as in a corporate research environment. It was great fun to laser digitize and reconstruct Australopithecus Afarensis in computer code to make 'Lucy' walk and to help design and evaluate the performance of high-end soccer boots using computer models. Then one day a (now) dear friend came over for coffee.

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By josh Filed under Sustainability

We started and ended CiviCon Denver this year by talking about community participation. In her keynote presentation, Stormy Peters of the Mozilla Foundation introduced it and discussed the value of participation in open source communities as well as how it represented a competitive advantage to proprietary software alternatives.

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By josh Filed under Sustainability

We recently updated our appeal for financial support on our download page and included a financial metric with two specific elements that I want to expand upon. In essence, we’ve published both the absolute dollar amount needed to balance the remainder of our 2015 budget (~ $300k) and we’ve qualified it by stating that this is the amount necessary for sustainability.

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By Eileen Filed under Extensions, Release announcements, Security Releases, Security

IATS has been a payment processor extension with CiviCRM for quite a while and has been actively developed & supported. If you are using the IATS extension you can say a quiet thank you to Alan, Karin & Stephen & stop reading.

 

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By ayduns Filed under CiviCon
So the good old British summer is looking a wash-out but you can still cheer yourself up by booking bargain tickets for the autumn excitement that is CiviCon London 2015.   Early bird discounts are available for just a few more days so book now and don't miss out.  
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By jehanley Filed under CiviCon

Thank you to everyone who has submitted sessions so far! They are all pretty awesome!

 

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By cividesk Filed under Training

Cividesk will be offering on-line classes for new users (Contacts, Membership, Events and Contribution management) during the month of August.  Classes are two hours in length and are limited in size to allow for questions from students throughout the session.

Click here to see a class schedule for August and to access registration information.

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By jehanley Filed under CiviCon

If you travel to DC for work or family frequently you may be tired of doing the same old tourism and want to mix things up. In anticipation of the User Summit, we've compiled a list of a few things to do that aren't on the Mall, that are inexpensive, and are Metro accessible. So while the Mall and Smithsonians are treasures in DC, there is a lot more to do here. Here are some other ideas from a couple locals:

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