Today marks the second beta release of CiviCRM 4.4. Congratulations to the CiviCRM community of developers; many people worked tirelessly to make this happen. If you haven't yet pitched in to help test this new version of your CRM, now is a great time.
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This October 3rd and 4th, it's CiviCon London 2013 - CiviCRM's Annual European Conference. CiviCon London is two days jam packed with super-interesting and informative sessions showing you how to make the most out of CiviCRM at your organisation. It's the best place for you to meet and network with people that can give you advice, share best practice, and help you with your CiviCRM project.
There is a new native extension available for allowing parents to register their children for events within CiviEvent. Tired of using custom data fields on a child to collect information about their parents and emergency contacts? Would you like the information collected during the event registration to create ( or update ) the various contact records needed in the back-office? Then this is the extension for you.
A massive thank you to all the service providers (listed below) who signed up as founding partners and helped us exceed our fundraising goals for the partner program. In total, we raised $90,000 from 43 founding partners (our goal was $75,000) which is a fantastic step for the sustainabilty of the project and shows the strength and diversity of our service provider ecosystem.
Last January we shared here that the Spanish - Mexico (MX) translation project of CiviCRM was completed thanks to the community of translators. Even though this was a huge accomplishment, other challenges remained.
The ChallengesHaving the Spanish - Mexico (MX) project translated was great, but definitely not enough.
Today marks the first beta release of CiviCRM 4.4. Congratulations to the CiviCRM community of developers; many people worked tirelessly to make this happen. If you haven't yet pitched in to help test this new version of your CRM, now is a great time.
PTP's first official contribution to the extensions repository is out: Summary Fields!
PTP folks and friends have been working hard to enhance the fundraising aspects of CiviCRM. We have big plans, and expect to release the bits and pieces as they are completed.
Starting with version 4.2 and 4.3, CiviCRM has incorporated sophisticated financial batch capabilities. However, for organizations switching from another CRM or financial system with batches, there is currently no capability to import batches or associate contributions with batches through the standard CiviCRM import process.
Last Tuesday and Wednesday I was in Oslo to work with MAF Norway for 2 days, together with my CiviCooP colleague Jaap Jansma. MAF Norway is a very inspiring group with very ambitious fundraising goals for the next couple of years. And they believe they need CiviCRM to make it possible for them to achieve those goals. It was an extremely inspiring visit for both parties involved.
