UPDATE: You can review detailed implementation specifications here and here
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"We are an Association whose members are organizations. How can these organizations signup and renew their memberships online?"
"We get contributions from companies as well as individuals. How can we configure our online contribution pages to handle this?"
"How can we allow someone from an organization to update the organization's address and contact info?"
These are questions that have come up over the past year from users - most recently with Emily Frazier who works on Public-access media related sites, and participated in our New Orleans Boot Camp. Working through real use cases and options with Emily was very helpful - and we think we've come up with an approach that makes sense. If you're organization has requirements in this area - please take some time to think about how well this will meet your needs.
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április 2, 2008
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, JoomlaIt feels like 2008 is the year of CiviCRM training. Following in the heels of our Melbourne bootcamp is the CiviCRM webinar bought to you by Michelle Murrain and the good folks from NTEN.
április 1, 2008
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, JoomlaEarlier today we pushed out v2.0.2 of CiviCRM. You can download it here. We have fixed approx 67 issues between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 (this involved approx 170 commits). This brings us to a grand total of 504 issues resolved for the 2.0 series. We suspect (and hope) that the rate of bugs filed / issues fixed will slow down significantly for future 2.0.x releases.
március 29, 2008
By hallman Filed under CiviCRMNotes from the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference, New Orleans, March 19-21, 2008
Notes from the CiviCRM affinity group meeting and the CiviCRM lunch table discussion have links on the bottom of the page http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Presentations. Both meetings were very productive.
március 28, 2008
By lobo Filed under CiviCRMMari Tilos has posted a few additional screencasts on our screencast wiki page. You can read and post your feedback on the forum topic here. If you have any ideas or suggestions for additional screencasts, please do post a comment on the forum topic
március 28, 2008
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM
Zoey Kroll from CivicActions has volunteered to help us with usability issues. We've decided to focus on a few common CiviCRM screens to begin with. You can read more details on Zoey's blog post here. Please post your responses and feedback on our forum topic dedicated to this issue here.
március 26, 2008
By cap10morgan Filed under CiviCRMThanks to the awesome folks over at the Joomla! project, CiviCRM will have a few projects in Google's Summer of Code this year.
You can see the list of proposed project ideas here: http://docs.joomla.org/Summer_of_Code_2008_Project_Ideas#CiviCRM_Projects
The biggest thing we need now are students to apply!
Here are the top 3 reasons why you (or a student you know) should work on CiviCRM this summer:
március 25, 2008
By lobo Filed under CiviCRMWe monitor the forums quite a bit and are always trying to figure out how to reduce / minimize the repeated requests. Many a time my strong stance on refusing to fix something obvious delays a few fixes (yes, i'm learning all the time and hopefully improving and becoming a wee bit wiser). I got a bit tired and fed up of seeing the same requests over and over again, so earlier today I went on a spree and fixed (or attempted to fix) a few of the most common support requests or mistakes.
március 25, 2008
By emilyf Filed under TrainingDay 1: Technically, day 1 was a fabulous dinner hosted by CiviCRM at Herbsaint in the warehouse district of New Orleans. This is Susan Spicer's restaurant, and it was delicious -- they even made the vegetarian (me) a special-not-on-the-menu meal! We took this time to get to know each other and talk a bit about CiviCRM, what we liked/disliked, and the development community in general.
március 25, 2008
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM, Training
Meeting folks who use and implement CiviCRM - face to face - is stimulating, challenging and just plain fun. I spent last week in New Orleans at our Boot Camp, at NTEN's NTC and at Penguin Day - and came home tired, a few pounds heavier (good eats in NOLA), and vowing to make these opportunities happen more often!
NTEN Affinity Group
Thanks to Judy Hallman's hard work and useful "pushing" - there were two specific CiviCRM events at NTC - an "Affinity Group" and a lunch "Discussion Table". The Affinity Group was well attended - especially given that it overlapped with NTEN's Day of Service and before many folks had arrived for the main conference. There was a good mix of folks from non-profits of various sizes and types, a few integrators and several folks who work for other eCRM platforms. However, none of the attendees were actual users - and the planned agenda was focussed on user sharing and Q & A. We did a quick re-boot and managed to give folks an overview of CiviCRM features.
Several people expressed doubts about using an open source solution for their organization (one person even using the phrase "deathly afraid"). They raised particular concerns about support ("who do I call when something goes wrong") and technical resources required for installation, configuration and maintenance. As options for paid support become more available, and the ecosystem of solution providers grows - these concerns should diminish. However, for many organizations a fully hosted (ASP) solution is the only realistic answer.
A highlight of the meeting was Greg Heller's "show and tell" of several CivicActions CiviCRM implementations. Seeing CiviCRM "in action" really helps folks understand some of the power of the platform and the advantages of tight integration with a CMS like Drupal. John Kenyon also spent a few minutes describing his training sessions for organizations using or preparing to use CiviCRM.
