CiviCRM 1.6: A Free and Open Source eCRM Solution
We are pleased to announce the latest release of CiviCRM – version 1.6.
Special thanks to the dedicated folks who contributed to this release by testing the alpha and beta revisions – and to everyone in the community who provided new ideas, feedback (especially critical feedback), and patches.
CiviCRM is the first open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, internationalised, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups.
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Trying to get our arms around how to load test CiviCRM and it is turning out to be a major issue with quite a few steps. This post is primarily for us to sort things out and make sure we are on the right path. So here are the specific steps and various programs we'll use to test things out:
Wikipedia Fundraising C.O.R.E designed and developed by the folks at Four Kitchen Studios is using CiviCRM v1.5 and Drupal 4.7. In their own words:
Just to set better context, here is our load testing scenario:
Last weekend Rupam Jaiswal, our CiviCRM team developer from India got married. A few of us from the team had gone for the wedding. It was great to see the transition from a developer whose days revolved around putting together code, into a bride who was now busy getting things together for the big day. She looked resplendent in her traditional Indian outfit.
One of our major goals for this year is to optimize CiviCRM to handle load in a graceful manner. This is extremely important for us with the Branner Project.
One of the most frequently asked questions on the CiviCRM dev list is for help with installing CiviCRM. Most of the questions are quite similar, although each of them seems to have their own specific twist. We do agree that installing CiviCRM is not for the faint-hearted and it takes a fair amount of skill to get it up and running the first time.
CiviMail, described in general previously, is our component for mass-mailing the CiviCRM contacts. In this entry, we’d like to get a bit more into the details on how CiviMail exactly works ‘under the hood’.
Recipients List Building
Don't worry, the body is not as dire as the subject indicates. Just wanted to give folks some background about how we operate and manage to do what we do, and what we need to do to continue delivering an awesome product (or so we think ...)
We currently are spread across India (9 developers), Poland (1.5 developers), US (dave) and NZ (lobo).
Now that 1.6 beta has been released - it's time to look ahead and prioritize the NEXT release (1.7).
There are a few "big features" we're targeting:
CiviEvent (specifications) CiviReport (blog thread) Duplicate contacts: "find" and "merge"... and a number of smaller but significant feature candidates.
