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February 14, 2013
By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce the second alpha release for 4.3 with support for Drupal 7.x, Joomla 2.5.x and WordPress.

Please remember this is an ALPHA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we  strongly encourage everyone to upgrade a copy of your current site(s) on a test server and let us know about any bugs or problems.

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February 13, 2013
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Case studies and user stories

Next Tuesday at 9AM PST / 5PM GMT / 6PM CET (more timezones here) we're having a 'Fundraising with CiviCRM' Google Hangout where we'll explore how three organisations are using CiviCRM for fundraising.  We are aiming to keep this session really end-user focused, and something that fundraisers who are new to CiviCRM and those that are alread

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February 10, 2013
By deepak.srivastava Filed under Architecture, CiviCRM

As part of my course i have been doing research on what would it require plug an external storage engine into CiviCRM, and how other open source systems doing it. Answer lies in a better config system which allows doing it in a scalable pluggable manner. As i make progress i'll be showing more reasons to get excited and curious about building a better config system. Drupal 8 has spent a fair bit of time on configuration management to make things easier.

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February 8, 2013
By pdelbar Filed under CiviCRM, Release announcements

Actually, that's not correct. Since testing the 4.3 release is ultimately good for you (the community), it's more appropriate to say you needs you ...

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February 7, 2013
By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce the first alpha release for 4.3 with support for Drupal 7.x, Joomla 2.5.x and WordPress.

Please remember this is an ALPHA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we  strongly encourage everyone to upgrade a copy of your current site(s) on a test server and let us know about any bugs or problems.

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February 6, 2013
By lewissa Filed under Training

At the request of our CiviCRM developer, I've typed up a 'case study' on our successful transition to CiviCRM with an emphasis on staff training.

 

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February 4, 2013
By colemanw Filed under Release announcements

CiviCRM 4.3 is packed with hundreds of improvements to make your CRM more productive, easier to use, and (dare I say) more fun. And it's going to be released soon. How soon? Well that depends on you. In the upcoming alpha version there may still be lurking bugs and we need your help to find them.

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Januar 29, 2013
By Gast Filed under Meetups

January 23, 2013 was CiviDay. A celebration of an OpenSource Software that had made an impact on non profits across 5 continents. And so it was fitting that the celebration was not limited to the US but was held across the globe.

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Januar 27, 2013
By Eileen Filed under Drupal

I've recently been exploring creating CiviCRM entities as Drupal entities - using the drupal Entity API. I think so far I have only just touched the surface of the possibilities for this integration but I thought I'd post what I think some of them might be

 

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