We thought it was about time that we published some job descriptions for the core team - to make it clearer what each of us works on, and is responsible for. Up until now, you would have had to be pretty well aquainted with the core team to understand what everyone did, and even then you probably wouldn't know everything we got up to. This is an effort to better present our work to the community and we hope it will be useful to you.
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McKenzie River Gathering (MRG) Foundation is the leading funder of Oregon's social justice movements, driven by an unwavering belief in the power of collective action to change the world. Robust management of our various constituencies is essential for meeting our goals.
The team is super excited to announce that the first alpha release of CiviCRM 4.7 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.7 sandbox site!
Civi v4.7 introduces some overhauls to the core CiviCRM development framework. Some of the planning discussions can be found in the forum, but now that it's merged and stablized a bit, I wanted to give a walk-through for other developers. A few highlights:
We are ready to welcome everyone to DC for the CiviCRM User Summit on September 24-25! If you want to catch Pope Francis, you will have to arrive earlier. I want to share a few DC tips with you all, and if you live in the DC Metro area, please feel free to comment below and share some tips too.
Thanks to all the mentors and students that participated in this past GSoC Program! There was a lot of effort and work put forth in these. Please check out the blogs below to find out the progress of each project:
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Hi! I am Niko Bochan, a undergraduate student from the University of Bonn, Germany. As part of my Google Summer of Code 2015 project I was working on improving CiviCampaign. My mentor was Björn Endres from SYSTOPIA, which is also – conveniently – based in Bonn.
You can find the last blog post here: https://civicrm.org/blogs/niko-bochan/civicrm-strategic-fundraising-and-campaigning
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