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Julio 15, 2013
By antrik Filed under Internationalization and Localization

CiviCRM comes with a convenient mechanism for handling postal greetings. However, it turns out this mechanism in its current form doesn't adequately cover greeting conventions in many non-English-speaking parts of the world. We are working on a couple of enhancements in CiviCRM to improve this situation.

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Julio 12, 2013
By Slovak Filed under Meetups
Bring your laptops or webhosting credentials along with questions and anything that may be holding up your project. We will set up small groups in which users will assist each other with installation, configuration, or walk through any steps that you would like to learn about.   We meet every second Thursday at Improving Enterprises in Addison.  
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Julio 12, 2013
By SarahGladstone Filed under CiviContribute, CiviCRM, Extensions, Finance and Accounting

I have previously blogged (http://civicrm.org/blogs/sarahgladstone/fun-and-joy-authorizenet-code-attached) and chatted about (http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,29234.0.html)  about the fun and joy related to supporting automated recurring transactions in a production environment, and started the pr

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Julio 10, 2013
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Community, Sustainability

If you've been keeping up with blog posts on sustainability that I've been writing recently, you'll know that one of our main focuses at the moment is on ensuring the long term sustainability of CiviCRM.  A key part of these efforts is our new partner program, which we've been busy developing over the past few weeks.

We're now at a point where we would like to invite 'early adopters' to become founding partners of this programme.

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Julio 8, 2013
By colemanw Filed under Release announcements, Security Releases

Announcing the 6th stable release of CiviCRM 4.3, containing small bug fixes and two minor security updates to make your CRM more stable and secure.

This is a security release. You should upgrade your site immediately. If you are unable to do so, read the following security bulletins for alternate instructions for securing your site:

SECURITY Fixes in 4.3.5:

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Julio 5, 2013
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Community, Make it happen

A quick recap on our Make it Happen 4.4. fundraising campaigns.  We've split them into successful, partially successful and unsuccessful.

Successful

These MIH were fully funded - you can expect to see the functionality released as extensions of core functionality in CiviCRM 4.4.

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Julio 3, 2013
By ChrisChinchilla Filed under CiviEvent, Case studies and user stories, CiviCRM

I'm currently undertaking a vast overhaul of how our site (greenrenters.org) displays and handles events as they are our main interaction point with the public. I'll document what I learn in a series of blog posts and here's the first.

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Julio 1, 2013
By davem Filed under Documentation, Internationalization and Localization, Marketing and Promotion

Returning to CiviCRM videos after some time on other projects, the team at Circle Interactive are now starting to think again about developing a CiviCRM community video project based on the ideas in Young Jin’s blog of Feb 2012.

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Junio 26, 2013
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Community, Sustainability

Time for an update on the what we are now calling the 'supporting partners program'.  We've been busy building out the infrastructure and have some alpha pages and workflows set up on our test site. Now is a great time for some early feedback on the direction we are taking, how things are looking and functioning, and suggestions for making things better.

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Junio 23, 2013
By ChrisChinchilla Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviCRM, Documentation, Extensions

For some time i've been trying to make my organisations contact list accessible outside of CiviCRM. Why you may ask?

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