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We had another excellent meet up on Tuesday (June 12). Our attendance was lower due to the terrential rain. I was impressed that Dan actually was going to bike home 20 minutes during the downpour.
The team is super excited to announce the first alpha release for 4.2 with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 1.7 and WordPress.
Please remember this is an ALPHA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we strongly encourage everyone to upgrade a copy of your current site(s) on a test server and let us know about any bugs or problems.
The first Manchester UK CiviCRM User and Admin training was held last week with a fantastic group of attendees who travelled from around the UK to learn more about Civi. Everyone got involved in sharing their experiences and user cases which made a friendly atmosphere over the two days.
Following the 2012 London Code Sprint, a number of new features were added to the CiviCRM payment extensions framework, with a view to providing a programming interface for fully self-contained payment extensions, which can be installed and uninstalled via a single click.
CiviCRM 4.1.3 has been released and is available for immediate download from SourceForge. This is a security release which addresses several potential vulnerabilities. We recommend that you upgrade as soon as possible.
So maybe filling out forms isn't anybody's idea of a good time, but at least building them can be fun, thanks to the shiny new version 3 of Webform CiviCRM Integration!
The PROGRESSIVE TECHNOLOGY PROJECT (PTP) is seeking a Data Specialist to join our PowerBase team. PowerBase is a customized, hosted version of the open source platform, CiviCRM, developed by PTP specifically for groups doing community organizing.
After discussion with core team members, mainly Dave Greenberg, there has been some discussion in the past about how to use the primary_contact_id field within organization contact type. I would like to revisit this after having about a year's time with CiviCRM and putting it into production use. Please chime in with any thoughts or other use cases that you see this field being used for.
