We had a great time in Dallas, Texas during CiviDay 2014. We want to give special thanks to Improving Enterprises for continued use of their facility and Skvare for being the long-term organizer of the group.
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We are reviewing the extension Relationship Permissions as ACLs, which has been made available by Eileen McNaughton from Fuzion (http://fuzion.co.nz/). Kudos to Eileen and Fuzion for sharing the extension!
What does it doThe extension sets permissions for contacts based on the relations permission.It is a bit complicated......did we get it correctly Eileen?
This time we had a look at the Extended Mailing Stats extensions, that was contributed by Andrew MacNaughty. The extension is used by the Australian Greens (http://greens.au.org). More information on the extension can be found on https://civicrm.org/extensions/extended-mailing-stats.
Now that the holidays are behind us, I wanted to share some of the exciting developments brewing in Civi-world for 2014.
Folks on the core team engaged with our partners recently in a spirited conversation about an updated mission statement for the project. We went through several iterations to come up with something broad enough to help with setting direction - but specific enough to be meaningful. We'd love to get your comments and incorporate them into a final version ...
Our organization has been using (and loving) CiviCRM for almost a year now, but we initially had issues getting the membership history to easily capture the full range of detail needed. Our members often lapse from year to year, and because Civi’s natural process is to renew a single membership record instead of creating multiple, this caused us some problems. When discussing our experience and solution at various events, we found there was a lot of interest, so the purpose of thi
We had a great event in Philadelphia. BackOffice Thinking co-hosted the night with PhillyCAM. PhillyCAM provided the space as well as the technology to live stream the event, so even those unable to be there in person, were able to participate.
I ‘discovered’ CiviCRM at the end of last year. Looking for an open source software for non-profit organizations. So, January 29th was my first CiviDay, the first meeting with CiviUsers and the people of CiviCoop. A half-day meet up, well organized bij CiviCoop in Apeldoorn. Informal and intriguing. All about to learn more about CiviCRM. I am impressed by the functionality that CiviCRM offers.
The North of England CiviDay Meetup, held in Manchester, went well with 14 people in attendance. These were mostly regulars but there were 2 people attending who are new to CiviCRM and wanted to learn all about it. This was also a special meeting where we showcased the latest amazing CiviCRM extensions. The extensions covered were;
Oliver Gibson - CiviVolunteer
Heather Oliver - CiviBooking
Jon-man Cheung - CiviHR
CiviDay in Bristol was an especially extended meet-up so we could run our Bristol themed Prezi introductory seminar for the first time to all the new attendees, nearly everybody was new!). Most of our usual attendees had made their apologies, but we still had twice the normal number. We had biscuits and fruit (which was a first) and a much larger room than we normally use for meet-ups.
