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By Slovak Filed under Meetups
Come and hear about the most recent developments in the world of CiviCRM! 3 local CiviCRM developers were in attendance CiviCon in San Francisco and the subsequent code sprint. Let's hear what the future has in store for us in CiviCRM 4.4 and beyond.   We meet every second Thursday at Improving Enterprises in Addison.  
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By xavier Filed under CiviContribute, CiviMember, Finance and Accounting

As most not-for-profit that wants to collect online donations or has a membership base, you probably have the opportunity to have more donors giving small amounts on a monthly basis, but you have not been able to explore it given the high fees on credit cards transactions. If your organisation is based in Europe, SEPA is offering you this option.

 

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By Anoniem Filed under Meetups

This Meetup was kindly hosted by Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research, at their office in Holborn.

 Jamie Novick (of Compucorp) demonstrated CiviMail as a mass means of communicating by email and SMS.

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By colemanwFiled under

Thanks to everyone pitching in over the past week we've released the first update to 4.3 today, with 42 small but important improvements. It is available for download now, and all site admins are encouraged to upgrade.

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By totten Filed under Security Releases

IMPORTANT: You do NOT need to upgrade CiviCRM to remove this vulnerability. See "Prevent Attacks: Delete the Vulnerable File" below.

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By spidersilk Filed under Documentation, Drupal 7

The attached chart came out of a discussion between Kasia Wakarecy, Lola Slade and myself (Lynna Landstreet), at Freeform Solutions, about some issues we'd encountered when trying to to do major version upgrades of CiviCRM and Drupal on a client's site at the same time. Since we're likely to have a number of other combined upgrades like that to do in the future, we wanted to iron out the best process for doing them as smoothly as possible.

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By colemanw Filed under Release announcements

It's here! The much anticipated new CiviCRM 4.3 is ready for prime-time. Congratulations to everyone in the CiviCRM community who made this happen.

What's New?

Here are just a few of the exciting improvements in CiviCRM 4.3.

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By Dave Melkman Filed under Marketing and Promotion

During the last few hours of the Civi Sprint in London, Jen (who is new to Civi) and I had a look at some basics on the CiviCRM website (civicrm.org) and have identified some problems and possible solutions.  Noting too radical mind and most involve minimal changes to the actual content as that's perhaps for a later date.

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