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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

All key features have been implemented:

The CiviCRM User Summit is only 1 week away! Have we mentioned how ecstatic we are with this year’s lineup of Session Presenters and Topics and to be honored by our very special Keynote Speaker, Amy Sample Ward, CEO of NTEN?

CiviCRM has a great feature that allows it to check email boxes and add new contacts and activities based on the emails in that box. Gmail has an awesome system of tags and filters. Emails in Gmail can be very tagged and sorted using a vast number of criteria. Together, Gmail can filter and sort large volumes of email with excellent accuracy, then CiviCRM can import the relevant, and only the relevant emails into the contact records.

In my last blog post I promised I'd share more about CiviVolunteer 2.0's new features as they come together. We've finished our first round of development on what I've been calling the volunteer opportunity shopping cart, and I'm excited to share it with you.