Blogs

Keep up-to-date with blogs from the core team, working groups, developers, users and champions worldwide. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive regular updates by email. We also have an RSS feed.
Mai 21, 2015
By roshani Filed under Training

At Ginkgo Street Labs, we are often asked by clients which payment processor they should go with that integrates with CiviCRM. To make it easier for organizations to select which payment processor will work best for their organization, we researched several payment processor options, including iATS payments, Authorize.net, Paypal Pro for Nonprofits and Stripe, and compiled this information into a resource that can be used as a reference.

Read more
Mai 20, 2015
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Sustainability

Ever wanted to hire the core team to work on an something important to you but didn't know how? Then take a look at our new Paid issue queue.

The paid issue queue aims to provide a simple mechanism for you to get the work you need into the next release of CiviCRM. It's designed to work in parallel to our standard issue queue, allowing you to 'jump the line' by providing the necessary resources to get your issue fixed.

Read more
Mai 20, 2015
By Achia Filed under GSoC

I am Aka Rolence Achia, a sophomore undergraduate student enrolled for a degree of Bachelor in Computer Engineering at the university of Buea. I have been a member in CiviCRM for about 2 months now and will be participating in GSoC 2015 as a student developer working on the project Social Media Interation with CiviCRM.

Read more
Mai 20, 2015
By mpeth Filed under Extensions, Make it happen

If you have been working with CiviCRM for a while, you will have noticed that certain patterns occur regularly in your data - and thus have to be entered over and over again.

Consider this: 

The prefix "Mr" corresponds to the gender "male", "Mrs" is usually "female" - you know that, but CiviCRM does not, so you have to make an additional entry

Read more
Mai 19, 2015
By kurund Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that CiviCRM 4.6.3 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.6 demo site!

Read more
Mai 19, 2015
By Dave Greenberg Filed under Release announcements

With 4.6 stable out the door, work began in earnest on the next release at last month’s Colorado sprint. Both the core team and key community contributors arrived at the sprint with specific projects they wanted to work on for 4.7. Great progress was made at the sprint and several of these projects are set to become elements of the 4.7 release.

Read more
Mai 19, 2015
By Anudit Verma Filed under GSoC

Hi, I'm Anudit Verma, a sophomore undergraduate student pursuing Computer Science and Engineering at University School of Information and Communication Technology, in New Delhi, India. I will be working on the Open Supporter Data Interface (OSDI) API implementation into CiviCRM project as a 2015 Google Summer of Code student.

Read more
Mai 18, 2015
By siddharthgupta Filed under GSoC

CiviCRM allow organizations to interact with constituents through emails, phone, SMS etc with the intentions to make this interaction easier, smoother and transparent.

Read more
Mai 14, 2015
By emilyf Filed under GSoC

Each month from June - August we will be featuring blog posts from this year's Google Summer of Code students. This will help keep all of you up-to-date on these great projects and also give you an opportunity to follow along and get more involved in ones that you connect with. Click the links below to check in on June's featured projects:

Social Media Integration with CiviCRM II

Read more
Mai 12, 2015
By ErikHommel Filed under CiviContribute, Case studies and user stories

We received this message yesterday from our friend Steinar at MAF Norge:

Read more