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April 24, 2010

First ever CiviCon behind us...

By michal Filed under CiviCon, CiviCRM
This Thursday, the first ever CiviCon took place. After five years of constant development of the CiviCRM project, we felt it was definitely time to have an in-person gathering of CiviCRM community members, talk about past, plan the future and enjoy being together. It was really a great day.
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April 21, 2010

Still More CiviCRM BoF sessions (Schools and Civi Q&A) at DrupalCon SF 2010

By lobo Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal

We had another super awesome day at DrupalCon SF 2010 today. Was great to watch and hear Cricket from Jane Goodall Institude proclaim: "I love CiviCRM!" to the audience :) To keep the momentum going, we've scheduled two BoF sessions for today. Please check the BoF notice board for the rooms.

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April 20, 2010

Using hooks to change "Individual Prefix" to an auto-complete text input

By AllenShaw Filed under Drupal
Originally posted at TwoMiceAndAStrawberry.com. I recently had to modify CiviCRM to support a specific use case for a client. In this project I needed to allow the user to enter anything in the Individual Prefix field, rather than choosing from a list of options. The client in this case was very sensitive about presenting the individual's honorific precisely as the individual wants, so that "Dr.," "Rev. Dr.," and "Most Rt. Rev. Dr." should all be possible, along with anything else the user might want to enter.
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April 19, 2010

More CiviCRM BoF sessions (Schools and Political Campaigns) at DrupalCon SF

By lobo Filed under Drupal, Schools

We had a great day at DrupalCon SF 2010 today, especially in our BoF sessions :) To keep the momentum going, we are planning to have a few more BoF sessions:

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April 16, 2010

CiviCRM BOF sessions at Drupalcon

By michaelmcandrew Filed under Meetups

Calling all Drupalers: we'll be holding two BOF sessions at Drupalcon this year. Both are on Monday in room 212. The first one, from 11am to midday, is aimed at end users and administrators. The second, from 4 to 5pm is aimed at developers. Come along to talk about all things CiviCRM-Drupal!

More details on the drupalcon BOF page. Looking forward to seeing you there!

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April 14, 2010

Free Software Foundation (FSF) recommends CiviCRM

By lobo Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla

The FSF just put out a press release recommending CiviCRM for non-profits. We've been working with the FSF very closely over the past 4 months to ensure that CiviCRM is licensing compliant (i.e. all the packages that we use and ship within CiviCRM are all compatible). This is an important milestone and a great endorsement for the project.

Some snippets from the FSF press release

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April 14, 2010

CiviCRM for Ticketing and Attendance

By hershel Filed under CiviEvent, CiviCRM, Drupal
Overview This is a brief introduction to how CiviCRM can be used for ticketing and attendance purposes, via custom Drupal modules. The concept is to provide printable tickets for event registrants, and to put a unique UPC code on each ticket; then at the event itself, to provide a way for the event management staff to scan the UPC codes and easily take attendance using those codes. Such a system is in place on one site and has been used successfully. Code
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April 14, 2010

CiviCRM 3.1.4 Release

By yashodhaFiled under
We are excited to announce that CiviCRM 3.1.4 has been released, and is now available for download. You can also try it out on our demo site. This release includes ~100 bug fixes/improvements to existing functionality. We recommend that sites currently running v3.1.3 or earlier upgrade to this version as soon as possible. Notice for Sites Using Moneris Payment Processor We were unable to obtain an appropriate GPL license for the Moneris plugin code, and therefore that file has been removed from our downloads. If your site uses Moneris for payment processing, you will need follow these directions to download the required code after upgrading your site to 3.1.4.
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April 13, 2010

Report from NTC 2010

By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM, Meetups, Training
Heading back from NTEN's national conference in Atlanta Saturday evening - both tired and stimulated. I was one of 1,500 non-profit "tech" folks (they come in all shapes and sizes btw). CiviCRM (and open source in generally) are clearly more on the radar at NTC each year - despite the bombardment of logos, banners and booths by the large commercial closed source vendors.
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April 8, 2010

Using CiviCRM for Political Campaigning and Constituent Support (Boston CiviCRM Meetup: Mar. 23, 2010)

By EvanDonovan Filed under Drupal, Meetups

Will Brownsberger, Massachusetts state representative, presented at the March 23, 2010 Boston CiviCRM meetup, which was held at the One Laptop Per Child offices.

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