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By colemanw Filed under Release announcements, Security Releases

A moderately critical security issue has just been fixed in CiviCRM. We recommend you immediately upgrade to one of the following newly released versions:

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By xavier Filed under Architecture, Interface and design

Fair warning, this post is intended to the technical part of our community, if you don't care about the architecture of civi, please skip this one, I'll come back to you soon with awesome datavisualisation and an interview of Micah about ssl (you'll like it). And if you read anyway, I'm a bit of a drama queen and some of the mountains I describes are probably hills, at best.

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By Life Cycle UK Filed under Community

Life Cycle UK is a small, innovative, UK charity which aims to transform lives and the environment through cycling. We run a range of practical services and projects designed to help people to overcome the barriers stopping them from cycling – anything from confidence boosting cycle training for adults who haven’t ridden a bike for 20 years and want to ditch the car and cycle to work – to a range of "inclusive cycling" projects which target specific disadvantaged groups.

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By colemanw Filed under Release announcements

The CiviCRM community of developers and partners are proud to announce the stable release of CiviCRM 4.4 - the fastest and most powerful version yet. Download it now.

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By meberly Filed under Community, Drupal 7
The Trinity Forum (TTF) is a nonprofit organization that engages leaders with the great ideas of civilization in the context of faith for personal and societal renewal.   
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By LindseyM Filed under Case studies and user stories, Community

Theatre groups, political organisations, environmental charities... CiviCRM is used by organisations of all shapes and sizes and the faith-based sector is a growing part of that. Here's a snapshot of our own Civi journey at Woodlands Church in Bristol, UK.  

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By lynndanzig Filed under Sprints

Hello to all who were at the Dalesbridge Sprint

Remember the garden?

Dalesbridge

A few more pix  here 

I greatly appreciated the opportunity to attend the sprint and learnt a great deal. Many thanks to all who helped.

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By vshura Filed under Community

The November issue of the CiviCRM Community Newsletter will focus on faith-based organisations, and I was contacted by Linda Wu Pagano to write something about our involvement with the project. So here is our story!

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By lwupagano Filed under Case studies and user stories, Community, Extensions

One of the most important things about any database is the integrity of its data.  Is it possible that you could be overriding existing contact information with incorrect information?

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By jamienovick Filed under Meetups

Almost there...

As if you guys weren't sick of us already... here's post number 3.

CiviCON London reunion / Oct London Meetup

Wow, didn't that summer pass quick! No sooner did all the Brits have on our shorts then now it's raincoats and scarves.

After a brief summer hiatus while we all readjusted our wardrobes, the London meetups are back!

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