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Oktober 24, 2020
By Stoob Filed under Extensions

Have you ever wanted to know how someone discovered your event registration or contribution page? Or have you wanted to give our special links to certain referral partners, board members, or fundraisers to track their efforts? CiviCRM partners Joinery HQ and Korlon have teamed up to release two extensions that help do just that.

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Oktober 15, 2020
By phillipm2001 Filed under Meetups
Come to the Asia/Pacific CiviCRM meet-up on 22nd October 2020

This is an open invitation for everyone in the Asia/Pacific region to join other Australians, New Zealanders etc. on-line to catch-up and discuss all things CiviCRM. If you are a CiviCRM user, developer or casual user with questions, then you are most welcome to join us.

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Oktober 14, 2020
By bgm Filed under Internationalization and Localization, Meetups

CiviCRM is available in over 25 languages, thanks for the many efforts of hundreds of translators around the world, but also from CiviCRM developers who have made sure that the texts in the software can be translated and adapted to differents regions.

Occasionally, a feature or a piece of text might not be in the correct language, usually because of a bug in how the code was written.

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Oktober 12, 2020
By Eileen Filed under Interface and design

Prepare for CiviCRM 5.31 now - changes could affect customisations

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Oktober 9, 2020
By wmortada Filed under Community, Sprints
CiviCRM Sprint Catalonia 2019

45 people from around the world came together for three days to make CiviCRM better.

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Oktober 8, 2020
By dev-team Filed under Release announcements

CiviCRM version 5.30.0 is now out and ready to download. This is a regular monthly release.

Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience: https://civicrm.org/download

Users of the CiviCRM Extended Security Releases (ESR) do not need to upgrade, as there are no ESR-specific bugfixes or security issues at the moment.

Important announcements and reminders:

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Oktober 8, 2020
By rebeccatregenna Filed under Community, Sustainability

First of all, it’s been a huge privilege for me to be able to attend the Global Community Summit in Barcelona and all of us here agree that first and foremost we owe this to the amazing team at iXiam for organising a fantastic event!

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Oktober 7, 2020
By BettyDolfing Filed under Meetups

Usually we organise meetups on a nice location to see and meet people, who are interested in CiviCRM, in real life. But thanks to Corona that was not possible this time. So we organised our first Webinar: one for Dutch speaking people from the Netherlands and Belgium. Over 30 people signed up! More than we expected, and more than we usually welcome at our ‘normal’ meetups.

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Oktober 2, 2020
By EileenFiled under

For the past few weeks I have been sending a dev digest to the dev-civicrm mailing list at the end of each week (subscribe here). The dev digest is a mix of what's being worked on, what proposals people are looking for input on, what we need review or help with, or just whatever bubbles to the top.

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September 21, 2020
By ErikHommel Filed under Community

In my previous blogpost on the Community Council and Sociocracy 3.0 (S3) I told you that we are studying and applying S3 to our community processes. In today’s little story I will focus on two important concepts in S3: driver and domain. And we are dying to get your feedback!

First of all, let me explain one aspect of our growing appreciation of S3 for our community:

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