Blog posts by alejandro_salgado

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Septiembre 29, 2014
By alejandro_salgado Filed under CiviCon, Community, Sprints
Surrounded by a spectacular environment, Edale is definetely a great choice for this year's Sprint. Yesterday (Sunday) we spend some time with setup, mastering our English-Pool skills and welcoming to the 20+ sprinters that arrived during the day. Before Craig's great dinner we had a brief meeting about logistics in general and how we were going to organize ourselves to have a productive sprint.  
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Julio 15, 2014
By alejandro_salgado Filed under CiviCRM, Community, Marketing and Promotion
Last June 26th CiviCRM participated in OpenExpo Day Madrid, one of the biggest events of Free and Open Source Software held this year.   Networking area 
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May 27, 2014
By alejandro_salgado Filed under Case studies and user stories, Community
  It was back in 2009, my two sisters were starting a non-profit project related to their passion: Indian Classical Dance. The project was called Güngur and I decided to help them out. So, I googled “CRM + Open Source + Free + nonprofit” and CiviCRM came up.  
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Enero 31, 2014
By alejandro_salgado Filed under CiviDay
Carlos Capote (Amnesty),Pablo Sullivan (Movimiento por la Paz) and iXiam co-organized CiviDay in Madrid. Thanks to them, more than 60 people had the chance to enjoy this event (almost 90 registrations in civicrm.org)  
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Enero 31, 2014
By alejandro_salgado Filed under CiviDay
Ixiam organized CiviDay in Barcelona. More than 20 people participated in this event that wanted to talk about the advantages of this free open source software.   
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Diciembre 30, 2013
By alejandro_salgado Filed under CiviCRM, Community, Marketing and Promotion

As part of the Partner Program, a marketing budget is now available for 2014. This initiative was born during last Dalesbridge Sprint and was part of the latest discussions and meetings of the CiviCRM Marketing Committee.

We thought that the best approach was to define a “Budget Revision Group” that will be managing and following up all the budget requests.

The Budget Revision Group for the first half of 2014 is formed by

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Noviembre 19, 2013
By alejandro_salgado Filed under Marketing and Promotion, Meetups

Ixiam will present CiviCRM in next OpenExpo CRM conference that will be offered at the Innovation Center Vaguada (Av. Monforte de Lemos, 38 – 28029 Madrid )

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Septiembre 6, 2013
By alejandro_salgado Filed under CiviCRM, Community, Internationalization and Localization

Last January we shared here that the Spanish - Mexico (MX) translation project of CiviCRM was completed thanks to the community of translators. Even though this was a huge accomplishment, other challenges remained.

The Challenges

Having the Spanish - Mexico (MX) project translated was great, but definitely not enough.

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Diciembre 11, 2012
By alejandro_salgado Filed under Meetups

December 13th., Big Day for CiviCRM Spanish-spoken community

2 simultaneous events in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and OpenExpo in Madrid (Spain)

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