Blogues

If you attended the San Francisco CiviCon in May this year, or watched Coleman's very entertaining "Less Code, More Features" presentation on the evolvement of how data structures have been modeled in CiviCRM over the years, you have seen a seemingly unconspicious CiviCRM extension in action, the Entity Construction Kit, or ECK in short.

Thanks to the hard work of CiviCRM’s incredible community of contributors, CiviCRM version 6.5.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release that includes several security fixes. Your are strongly encouraged to upgrade now for the most stable, secure CiviCRM experience:

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There has been a security release for CiviCRM. Upgrades are available for:

How to streamline your event registration process in CiviCRM: In the last two decades, the CiviCRM toolbox has grown relentlessly. SYSTOPIA alone has built and maintained over 60 extensions to solve problems of CiviCRM user worldwide. This series aims to make our work a bit more visible – extension by extension. Maybe the missing software piece you are looking for is already out there?

This post shares tools and workflows that can support CiviCRM implementers, developers, and organizations by simplifying hosting, infrastructure management, and testing environments. While not part of the CiviCRM project itself, DevPanel and DrupalForge are open-source-friendly platforms that work well for CiviCRM use cases, especially on Drupal or WordPress

Hello CiviCRM community! We’re the Tor Project, long-time users of CiviCRM, and recently we shared a post on our own blog about how CiviCRM helps advance our goals as a nonprofit and our shared commitment to open source software. We also wanted to share some of the overlapping insights with the CiviCRM community.

Stripe now supports TWINT/iDEAL payments

At MJW we develop and maintain quite a number of different extensions for CiviCRM. But the one that is by far the most popular and has helped us make a name for ourselves in the CiviCRM community is the Stripe payment processor.

Thanks to the hard work of CiviCRM’s incredible community of contributors, CiviCRM version 6.4.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

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At SYSTOPIA, we've built and maintain a wide range of tools, from CiviCRM extensions to specialized solutions for European organizations. With over 60 repositories under active management, we're dedicated to enhancing the CiviCRM ecosystem. This month, we're excited to present CiviSEPA – the comprehensive SEPA Direct Debit solution that has become essential for European nonprofits managing recurring contributions and membership fees.

CiviCon 2025 took place this May in California, where it all began 20 years ago! With some time passed, I would like to use this blog post to look back.