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Junio 4, 2014
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Sustainability

CiviCRM has an opening for a part time fundraiser, who will work with the core team to strengthen financial relationships with vendors and end-user organizations.  Primary responsibilities will include managing the partner and member programs, as well as setting strategic direction for financially funding the platform over the next five to ten years.

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Junio 3, 2014
By eftakhairul Filed under GSoC

Hi, this is Eftakhairul Islam. I have been selected in Google Summer of Code (GSOC) 2014 for CIVICRM Phone Integration.

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Junio 1, 2014
By aditya.nambiar Filed under GSoC

Hi I am Aditya Nambiar , a 3rd year undergraduate student pursuing Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. I am currently working on a GSOC project - Visualization for Mailing stats and A/B testing with Kurund Jalmi as my mentor

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May 30, 2014
By rajgo94 Filed under GSoC

Hi, I'm Siddhant Rajagopalan, a second year Undergraduate student studying CSE from IIT Bombay.

As part of my GSoC 2014 project which is to improve the usability of CiviMail, I have come up with 2 mockups. I would appreciate feedback regarding which mockup would be a superior fit.

 

Aim of the Project

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May 27, 2014
By teja Filed under CiviCRM, Interface and design

This week, I began work on my Google Summer of code 2014 project “Bootstrap and CiviCRM”. The project was proposed and selected to address the following goals:

1. Improve the user interface of CiviCRM

2. Provide a consistent and scalable UI framework for developers to extend/customize CiviCRM

3. Make CiviCRM compatible with mobile devices

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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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May 23, 2014
By Richard Austin Filed under Case studies and user stories

The Alliance for Catholic Education at University of Notre Dame is a nationwide program that forms teachers and school leaders and provides research and broad support for Catholic schools across the country.  ACE seeks to ensure that none of today’s social and economic hurdles will prevent any child from experiencing the gift of an excellent education.

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May 23, 2014
By john@livingstonace.org Filed under Case studies and user stories

I run an adult education program for my home town’s public school system called Livingston ACE. It’s small. I’m a one-man show. When I was hired for the job several years ago, I promised to transition the program from a paper catalog with no website to a web-based catalog with online registrations and email advertising. I chose CiviCRM. I had no prior experience with it.

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May 23, 2014
By m.mitchell@whitefusemedia.com Filed under Case studies and user stories

Student Voice is a UK based non-profit working to become the representative body for school students, supporting young people in representing their views on issues around education and schools.  We asked Rachel Roberts, Assistant Director, a few questions on how using CiviCRM had benefitted their organisation.

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May 18, 2014
By ErikHommel Filed under CiviCRM, Community, Extensions

I think I saw the first demo of the CiviCRM extension dataviz after the post-CiviCon London sprint. Xavier Dutoit had been working real hard on this, and Hannelore and me were very impressed! The possibilities are great, and data visualization is IMO so much better than numbers on a report! Data becomes so much more alive.

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