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By justinfreeman Filed under Community, Meetups
COME AND JOIN THE ASIA/PACIFIC CIVICRM MONTHLY MEET-UP ON 19th September 2019, 2PM TO 3PM

This is an open invitation for everyone in the Asia/Pacific region to join other Australians, New Zealanders etc. on-line to catch-up and discuss all things CiviCRM. If you are a CiviCRM user, developer or casual user with questions, then you are most welcome to join us.

 

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By mattwire Filed under Extensions

We are pleased to release the new stripe extension version 6.0 just in time for the implementation of the new European PSD2 payments directive that enters into force on the 14th September.

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By DaveD Filed under Tips

Credit goes to other people but I wanted to point out a new setting now available as of 5.17.0 that should speed up most sites. At worst it should have no effect. It's like that button on traffic light poles - you press it and sometimes it does nothing but sometimes the light changes faster. Either way you're no worse off, except they now have your fingerprints on file.

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By skornien Filed under API, CiviMobile, Extensions

As the CiviMobile version numbers continue to increment, the user experience of the mobile application improves with exponential growth. Members of NGOs and nonprofits are no longer office bound by a desktop CiviCRM application. What they have instead is a core CiviCRM functionality at their fingertips every time and everywhere. Our new release of CiviMobile 4.1 further refines the app introducing custom field functionality, among other updates.

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By josh Filed under Marketing and Promotion

In conjunction with the civicrm.org website transition, we’ve undertaken a revision of the CiviCRM brand and messaging, as well as an overhaul of the site’s content.

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By jaapjansma Filed under Development Tools, API, Architecture, Documentation

This blog post explains how you could insert data from a CSV file into CiviCRM. We use Pentaho Data Integration to read the CSV file and to call a Form Processor in CiviCRM.

This blog post is an example and when you follow the steps described in this post you can run the same import as me.

Pentaho is a tool to extract and transform data.

The form processor is an extension to create end points for forms in CiviCRM. Those end points can then be called through the api.

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By dev-team Filed under Release announcements
CiviCRM version 5.17.0 is now out and ready to download.   RELEASE NOTES: Big thanks to Andrew Hunt and Alice Frumin from AGH Strategies for putting up together release notes for this version.  The release notes for 5.17.0 can be accessed here.   SPECIAL THANKS:
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By mattwire Filed under CiviContribute

With the September 14th deadline for SCA payments and Stripe increasingly reminding users about their PCI compliance many of you will be wondering what is happening with the new Stripe extension that was funded in record time through the CiviCRM Make it Happen programme.

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By bgm Filed under Development Tools, Community, Internationalization and Localization, Marketing and Promotion

As many of you know, the civicrm.org is both the main site for promoting CiviCRM, and also where we blog, list extensions, promote partners and contributors, list the events organized by the community, showcase case studies,

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By cividesk Filed under Training

Get in shape with CiviCRM! Cividesk is offering a one-week intensive training special the week of September 16th.

This means all five beginner level Fundamentals of CiviCRM classes (one per day) at a discounted rate. This is a great opportunity to quickly train new staff on contacts, membership, events, contributions and mass emailing in CiviCRM. 

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