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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the fourth alpha release of CiviCRM 4.7 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.7 sandbox site!

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By josh Filed under CiviCon

It’s been nearly 15 years since I’ve been back to Europe and to the UK, and never before for a CiviCon (in London), so I didn’t quite know what to expect. Up until about 11:00am on Wednesday, I’d felt quite prepared. But then Tim Otten told me that I was giving the welcome speech and was introducing the keynote speaker. I thought he was joking. After that small oversight on my part, I spent much of the rest of the day preparing to open the conference in front of an international audience.

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By cividesk Filed under Case studies and user stories

An interview with the Highland Hospital Foundation

The Highland Hospital Foundation is the 501(c)3 fundraising organization of HHA, Inc.  The mission of the Foundation is to enable and assist HHA, Inc. in maintaining quality behavioral health treatment programs.  As the philanthropic arm of HHA, Inc., the Highland Hospital Foundation supports the delivery of behavioral health services to patients of all ages and contributes to the overall quality of life in their community by providing financial assistance. Cividesk recently spoke with Gail Carter, Development Officer of the foundation about her experiences using CiviCRM.

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements, Security Releases

The team is super excited to announce that CiviCRM 4.6.9 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.6 demo site.

The latest release of CiviCRM 4.6 includes security fixes. While this issue is unlikely to affect the average CiviCRM site, it is recommended to upgrade to the latest version to keep your site as secure as possible.

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the third alpha release of CiviCRM 4.7 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.7 sandbox site!

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By michaelmcandrew Filed under Documentation

A while ago I did a test migration of CiviCRM's user and admin documentation to gitbook and said that I'd also do a migration to readthedocs so we could compare the two.  I finally got round to completing the readthedocs migration so wanted to share with you some impressions so far, the advantages and disadvantages are of both systems.

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By josh Filed under Marketing and Promotion

In case you haven’t noticed, we don’t spend a ton of time on marketing and sales. Not only is our budget for marketing small (and by 'small', I mean 'tiny'), just take a quick look at the makeup of the Core Team and at our roadmap and you should get a good sense of what our focus is (and is not).

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By ElietHenderson Filed under Community

CiviCRM makes San Francisco Baykeeper a better advocate for San Francisco Bay. Before Baykeeper started using CiviCRM, we had a Stone-Age system for accepting online donations, a custom event registration system that we paid a developer to update for every event, and a separate database for sending emails and managing email contacts.

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By BjoernE Filed under Internationalization and Localization, Sprints

If you (and your colleagues/users) are an English native speaker, DON'T READ THIS. You don't have to bother. Lucky you.

The rest of the world: Here's your chance to get rid of those weird translations that you just cannot get right for all the places it's used...

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