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September 10, 2014
By cividesk Filed under Training

Cividesk is offering additional on-line training session dates in September to accomodate requests from the community.  The two hour on-line classes are designed for new users or those looking to take a refresher course.  Click here to learn more about class curriculum or on a link below to register for a specific course.

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September 9, 2014
By totten Filed under Community, Release announcements, Security

We’ve been having some discussions among the folks who triage security issues, who publish new releases, and who maintain backports. We'll update the policy beginning with the upcoming 4.4.7 release (and related 4.2.19 and 4.3.9 releases).

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September 9, 2014
By cividesk Filed under Case studies and user stories

The Denver Ballet Guild supports and celebrates the beauty and power of dance by encouraging interest in ballet and other forms of dance.  The organization is managed exclusively by volunteers, who promote dance at all levels and conduct annual fundraising activities to support the dance community.

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September 9, 2014
By BjoernE Filed under CiviContribute, Finance and Accounting

Direct debit is vital for donations in continental Europe. It's widely available, reliable, and now it could be for free! SEPA -the "Single Euro Payments Area"- harmonized money transfers throughout the EURozone, allowing for easy direct debit payments between any of the 18 EUR countries.

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September 8, 2014
By jamienovick Filed under CiviContribute, CiviCRM, Finance and Accounting
Pencil and squared paper at the ready CiviCRM is about to get a little more boring...

Yes thats right, over the past few months Compucorp have been working with Web Access, JMA consulting and the Core Team to beef up Civi's accounting integration by providing support for Sales Taxes for CiviCRM. But wait there's more...

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September 8, 2014
By Idea15WebDesign Filed under WordPress

I am developing a CiviCRM installation for a client. The charity uses a colour-coding system to note their service users’ medical conditions. The client was keen to carry this colour coding over into the database. The trick was getting the CRM to use the correct colour code depending on what condition has been selected.

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September 8, 2014
By aditya.nambiar Filed under GSoC

Hi I am Aditya Nambiar a third year undergraduate student pursuing Computer Science at IIT Bombay.This is final blog post on my project - Visualization for Mailing stats and A/B testing. I shall be explaining the work flow of my project in the blog post  

Listing Page

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September 8, 2014
By rajgo94 Filed under GSoC

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Hi, I'm Siddhant Rajagopalan, a third year Undergraduate student studying CSE from IIT Bombay.

This is the final blog post regarding my GSoC project, “Mail Blast UI”.

My blog post which talks about my project can be seen at

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September 5, 2014
By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the ninth beta release of CiviCRM 4.5 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.5 sandbox site!

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September 4, 2014
By Eileen Filed under Release announcements

It's a little over a year since we launched the 4.2 LTS with the intention being to ensure security patches until at least the end of last year. Those of us who have been involved in or used the 4.2 LTS  consider it to have been a  success, providing a secure and very reliable release of CiviCRM, therefore saving support time. But we've recently seen a lot of organizations upgrading to 4.4 and the LTS no longer has the critical mass of users and contributors to keep it healthy.

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