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Blog posts by JonGold
Coming off of CiviCon North America 2013, 25 members of the CiviCRM community spent a week at the Woolman Center working on new functionality, creating documentation, and discussing how to grow the CiviCRM community. Based off initial seed funding of the Soft Credit Improvements Make-it-Happen