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januari 29, 2010

CiviCRM 3.1 Stable is now available!

By deepak.srivastava Filed under Drupal, Joomla
The team is excited to announce the release of CiviCRM 3.1 Stable. You can download the release AND / OR try it out on our demo sites. The version number for the initial stable release is 3.1.1. There was an invalid 3.1.0 distribution on Sourceforge for a few hours. If you downloaded that version, please discard and re-download 3.1.1.

v3.1 includes several COOL new features:

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januari 25, 2010

CiviCRM 3.1 Templates, Theming, CSS Bonanza!

By kylejaster Filed under Interface and design

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januari 21, 2010

CiviCRM 3.0.4 Release

By yashodha Filed under CiviCRM
The team has released version 3.0.4 today. This release includes a critical fix for Profile, and 30+ bug fixes/improvements to existing functionality. We recommend that sites currently running v3.0.4 or earlier upgrade to this version as soon as possible.   Download
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januari 21, 2010

CiviCRM v3.1 Beta 6 Now Available

By yashodhaFiled under
The sixth BETA release of version 3.1 is now available for download. You can also try it out on our public demo. Check out release highlights here!. (Please remember it’s a beta release and it shouldn’t be used on production sites.)   Step up and help out! Beta releases are a great occasion to get involved in CiviCRM community. There are many ways you can help make this release better and bug free.
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januari 18, 2010

Quick and easy Congressional District lookups for your CiviCRM contacts

By dalin Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal
By definition CiviCRM is used by many organizations in the political sphere. For those organizations working in the US one useful metric to have on your contacts is their congressional district. Up until now this has usually been accomplished with either custom code, or exporting your contacts, sending them through a bulk lookup tool, and re-importing them.
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januari 18, 2010

Transnational Institute starts using CiviCRM to manage their relations today!

By ErikHommel Filed under CiviCRM

After a succesful conversion of data Transnational Institute (www.tni.org) will start using CiviCRM to manager their relations today.

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januari 13, 2010

CiviCRM v3.1 Beta 5 Now Available

By kurund Filed under CiviCRM
The fifth BETA release of version 3.1 is now available for download. This release includes some security fixes so if you are already on 3.1 we would recommend upgrade. You can also try it out on our public demo. Check out release highlights here!. (Please remember it’s a beta release and it shouldn’t be used on production sites.)
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januari 8, 2010

CiviCRM User, Integration and Developer Training Schedule for first half of 2010

By lobo Filed under Drupal, Joomla, Training
We have quite a few paid training events lined up for this year. You can read some of the reports on prior trainings on our blog. Participants who have attended these trainings have remarked as to how much it has helped demystify CiviCRM for them (and their clients). Learn some valuable tips and tricks from the core CiviCRM developers and help the project! We offer a User training mainly for the CiviCRM end user / newbie, an integrator training for the CiviCRM administrator and a developer training for folks who want to extend and customize CiviCRM. Our current training schedule is: Integrator (Jan 21) and Developer Training (Jan 22) in Boston. Developer training on February 8 - 9, 2010 in Brussels. User (April 7), Integrator (April 11) and Developer (April 12) training in Atlanta. User (April 18) and Integrator (April 18) training in San Francisco. The first CiviCon - April 22, 2010 immediately after DrupalCon San Francisco. More details on this in future blog posts.
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januari 6, 2010

How much server (disk space and memory) do I need to run my CiviCRM implementation....

By pkeogan Filed under Architecture

How much server (disk space and memory) do I need to run my CiviCRM implementation....

The answer is, of course, it depends. But what are the critical factors?

-- Data base size (Number of contacts and number of custom data fields, relationships, groups, etc.) -- Number of users (light usage vs. heavy usage) -- What other applications will be running? (A CMS with a small data base or Jasper Reports with a lot of simultaneous users.)

I think it would be good to put forth some guidelines or rules of thumb.

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januari 6, 2010

EU FOSDEM Developer Camp: February 2010, Brussels, Belgium

By shot Filed under CiviCRM, Meetups, Training

We're preparing a CiviCRM developer camp in Brussels on February 8th and 9th – right after FOSDEM 2010. Developer Camps are a place where CiviCRM developers, administrator and users can get together around CiviCRM. We'd like you to let us know what you want to see at the camp by commenting on the wiki page.

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