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september 10, 2009
By shot Filed under CiviCRM

We’re happy to announce that CiviCRM 3.0.beta3 is now available for download. You can also try it out on our sandbox site. Please remember it’s a beta release and it shouldn’t be used on production sites.

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september 9, 2009
By Anoniem Filed under Teams
Minutes for 09-02-2009 meeting - CRM - CiviCRM Wiki

Web redesign project

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september 7, 2009
By lcdweb Filed under Joomla
A while back, Lobo alluded to some recent modifications that allowed Joomla and Standalone users to more easily tap into CiviCRM's hooks (issue detailed here).
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september 3, 2009
By JoeMurray Filed under CiviCRM, Training

In Toronto consultant Alan Dixon, TechSoup Canada Program Manager Jane Zhang, and Joe Murrray of JMA Consulting will be providing CiviCRM information, training, and advice to NGOs, with a bit of friendly support from Mark Surman, the Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation.

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september 3, 2009
By michal Filed under CiviCRM
As you already know, CiviCRM is participating as a Mozilla Service Week partner. For the last few days we've been thinking about the specific shape of our contribution to this project and decided that we would like to offer consulting assistance to the community of organizations using or wanting to use CiviRM. The core team as a whole will pledge 100 hours to help organizations with CiviCRM related issues during Mozilla Service Week.
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september 3, 2009
By shot Filed under CiviCRM

We’re happy to announce that CiviCRM 3.0.beta2 is now available for download. You can also try it out on our sandbox site. Please remember it’s a beta release and it shouldn’t be used on production sites.

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september 2, 2009
By Dave GreenbergFiled under

CiviCRM has included a plugin for interfacing United States Postal Services (USPS) Address Standardization web service for quite a number of releases. However, the USPS rules for using the service have been a bit hard to pin down and getting authorization from is apparently hit or miss. There have been a few forum posts indicating success using the plugin with CiviCRM versions 1.8 and possibly 1.9. However, since then we've pretty much only had reports of problems related to folks enabling the feature without having a valid account etc.

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augustus 27, 2009
By loboFiled under
We've been having quite a few requests for the ability to modify and extend the types of contact records which we can be stored in CiviCRM (currently limited to Individuals, Households and Organizations). Thanx to the nice folks at Alpha International, we will be adding the ability to rename or "hide" the existing Contact Types AND define Contact Sub-types as part of CiviCRM v3.1. Here is a first draft of what we plan to implement. Your comments and feedback are appreciated. Contact Sub-types In v3.1 we will introduce the notion of a Contact Sub-type. This will allow users to create specific types of Contacts for their use cases. For example, a school could introduce three new sub-types: Student, Parent and Staff. Sub-Types will inherit from one of the three contact types (Individuals in this case). Sub-types will have all the properties and features of the main contact types. Thus an admin will be able to:
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augustus 26, 2009
By shot Filed under CiviCRM
We’re happy to announce that CiviCRM 3.0.beta1 is now available for download. You can also try it out on our sandbox site. Please remember it’s a beta release and it shouldn’t be used on production sites. Check out the blog entry announcing 3.0.alpha1 release for a run-down of what’s new in CiviCRM 3.0, and this list for issues that were fixed since 3.0.alpha3. A full list of changes, improvements and bug fixes in 3.0 release is also available on the wiki and in the issue tracker.
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augustus 21, 2009
By lobo Filed under Drupal, Schools
I continue my work on deploying CiviCRM for my kids school. In previous blog posts i documented how to use hooks and custom templates to schedule parent teacher conferences and extended care activities and how to expose relationship information in a profile view. In this blog post I'll describe some more advanced features. I'll also describe the code and directory structure. New Code Structure and Directory Layout
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