This past Monday, the 18th of October 2010, a group of about 10 people gathered for Toronto's fifth ever CiviCRM Users' Group Meetup. The turnout was up significantly from last month, and we look forward to growing the local community even more. In future, we'll make sure to post clear and detailed directions to the location to ensure everyone who wants to come can find us!
Great news for CivICRM users in the UK. CiviCRM now comes with 'out of the box' support for Gift Aid. The code is freely available for download, installation (instructions here) and use on your site.
It's 3.3.alpha1 time! After a couple months of work, it's finally time to push out all those new cool features out! Before jumping directly on downloads (yeah, we know you can't wait!), we strongly recommend going through 3.3 highlights post, where you will find out what's new and hot in this release.
If you want to experience 3.3.alpha1, it is now available for download. You can also try it out on our sandbox site. Please remember this is an ALPHA release and it should NOT be used on production sites.
As we are getting ready to roll out the first alpha for CiviCRM v3.3, I figured a status update on some of the cool new features of 3.3 was in order. So without further ado, here are some of the cool new features that are part of 3.3
As a part of 3.3 release we will be deprecating all v1 api's and if you are still use them, it's a good time to migrate to v2 api's before upgrading to CiviCRM v3.3 release.
CiviCRM api v2 were introduced in v2.0. For every v1 api there is equivalent v2 api.
Reason for removing v1 api's:
A quick look the book CiviCRM a comprehensive guide: how we got here, and our plans for the future
We recently got fifty copies of CiviCRM: a comprehensive guide printed on demand for some training events in the UK. Being able to hand out a 300 page book as a supplement to the training went down really well with participants: holding something in your hands in a world which is predominantly online world is quite reassuring, it seems!
Just a quick update to say that the 'de-dupe exception table' initiative is now funded for release 3.3. This will allow those poor souls struggling through a big de-dupe to mark some contacts as 'non-matches' and not have to wade through them every time.
This initiative was sponsored by
Creative Commons
Community Builders Australia Pty Ltd
Australian Greens
NES Alumni and Friends Nonprofit Partnership
Today is the last day of the Bristol code sprint, which was a great experience! Lots done, climbed the Cheddar Gorge and tasted Kurundś famous lamb.... I will also always remember it for finding out I was part of the API team :-)
On a serious level, it is a good idea to have a team of people that take care of the API's. And taking care I think involves:
Today at the Bristol Code sprint a few of us made a concerted effort on getting making Giftaid 'plug and play' for Civi.
Our starting point is code written by Millertech and our aim is to get it into a state that we can package it as a Drupal module. Once we've done that, we're hopeful that we'll be able to package it for Joomla also.
