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május 6, 2012
By ken Filed under CiviEvent

The Google Map on the Event Info page takes up valuable space: is a simple link to the map adequate?

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május 1, 2012
By Katy Jockelson Filed under Meetups

Here at Third Sector Design we're preparing for our next meet up which will take place on Wed 9th in Central London. The last one was excellent, with lots of people and 3 really interesting presentations on a wide range of topics.

This time we're going to be focusing on: 

* CiviMobile - a new mobile app for CiviCRM

* Making CiviCRM webcasts

* CiviCRM case studies

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április 27, 2012
By Owen Barton Filed under Drupal

The CiviCRM Drush integration recently got a fairly major refactoring (issue CRM-9986), and should be available with the CiviCRM 4.2 release.

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április 19, 2012
By JonGold Filed under Sprints
For years, I've wanted to give back to the open source communities I'm a part of. Often I'm told, "Write code." More than any other project I've seen, CiviCRM has created alternative ways of contributing back. At the code sprint, I met people brand new to CiviCRM contribute meaningfully by proposing (and critiquing) workflows for new features, create how-to screencasts, and more.
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április 19, 2012
By deepak.srivastava Filed under Release announcements

CiviCRM team is pleased to announce the next stable release of version 4.1 - with support for Drupal 7, Drupal 6, Joomla 1.7/2.5, and Wordpress 3.3. You can download the release now from Sourceforge.

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április 17, 2012
By Eileen Filed under Meetups

Chris Ward has organised a meetup in Melbourne for this Monday:

 

Report back from CiviCon and a code-sprintette

Melbourne CiviCRM

Monday, April 23, 2012 6:00 PM

Inspire9 1/41 Stewart Street Richmond

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április 11, 2012
By gibsonoliver Filed under CiviCRM, Interface and design

We are currently working with an organisation that has a staff member that accesses their machine using a screen reader only (he uses Jaws). He has been working hard to see which core bits of CiviCRM (4.1.x on Drupal 7) he can access and has fantastically been working with us to feedback. In some instances we have been able to hardcode in menu links etc to increase his level of access.

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április 7, 2012
By lobo Filed under CiviCon, CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla, WordPress

At CiviCon, Gunner from Aspiration Tech facilitated a session with the entire community soliciting feedback, discussion and comments on the project. It was a good opportunity for everyone to give feedback on the state of the project, things that we are doing a good job with, and things that we can improve. We ended up doing a collaborative grouping of the feedback in various categories and sorting the comments.

Some of the positives that are worth highlighting include:

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április 6, 2012
By jbertolacci Filed under Case studies and user stories

The International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) needed to be able to target and deliver our constituent's comments on Congressional Bills to Senators and Representatives. Thanks to this blog post we found PopVox and thanks to the good folks at PopVox, CiviCRM and PopVox are now integrated.

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