My colleague Tommy has been leading our response at AGH Strategies for Civi911 calls that come in, and he's noticed a few common themes. I suspect that you may encounter some of these same issues, and this might save you some time and money in addressing problems that crop up on your CiviCRM site.
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For core team member Coleman Watts, it all started while working for an environmental & peace education center that needed a database. Trying out CiviCRM, he soon discovered its power to unite different facets of the organization into a coherent whole.
"When you donate and download, you make the statement to the entire community that CiviCRM is a vital, open source platform worth supporting. Nearly 10,000 organizations count on CiviCRM & on your support."
Now that CiviCon 2015 is over, it is a good time to reflect on the people we met and the great new things we learned. I attended the CiviCon conference as well as two full days of training prior to the event. Joining me in Denver were designer Kurt Thomas and front-end developer (and former organizer) Phillip Kent Knight from the Los Angeles LGBT Center, a Black Brick Software client organization.
Great to read all the feedback from CiviCon Denver and the sprint in the blogs and on social media. It confirms that CiviCon is THE conference where users, developers, supporters and fans of CiviCRM meet each other, share knowledge and swap stories. It is the best spot to get inspired and gain insights into the possibilities of CiviCRM!
We've officially kicked off the community bonding period for the 2015 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) this week. This is CiviCRM's second year participating in the program, and Google has increased our number of project slots this year from 6 to 10, a great step up for a second year organization. The students in total will receive $55,000 from Google for roughly 4,600 hours of development and CiviCRM LLC will receive $5000 if all 10 projects are completed successfully.
We have just completed the fourth day of the sprint. Progress reports are in from all of the teams and much progress has been made.
Cividesk propose régulièrement des sessions de formation en ligne en français, sur les principaux composants de CiviCRM (Contacts, Evénements et Contributions), ainsi que des webinars "Découverte de CiviCRM".
We are half way through Sprint Day 1 and everyone seems to be busy at work! This is my first Sprint and so far I am very impressed. The focus at this Sprint is on 4.6 documentation, payment processors, translations, extensions reviews, and improving installation process. I am excited to have installed a sandbox version of 4.6, created 3 pull requests (my first ever!!) and completed documentation on repeating activities in 4.6.
