This morning Jaap and I (both from CiviCooP) took a train to Bonn and walked from the HauptBahnhof to the Systopia offices. Quite a nice sunny morning, met Beethoven on our way!
Blogs
This year our main event will focus on sessions for users, implementers and advanced users, with developer training taking place during the Sprint.
If you are a Drupal developer coming new to CiviCRM, it can be a bit of a "culture shock" to realize that CiviCRM is not your typical Drupal module.
This release has fixes for some issues reported in the previous 4.7.21 release. We recommend upgrading to this latest version.
Complete list of issues fixed in this release is available from here.
Bugs fixed:
Core CiviCRM
Please note that release 4.7.21 and 4.6.29 are security releases. Please see below links to the security advisories:
Based on feedback from clients, we're launching a series of Masterclasses this year. They will provide an opportunity for you to deepen your knowledge and skills in a particular area of CiviCRM. These courses will assume that you have a basic understanding of CiviCRM as a Contact Management System.
This year we had a sprint after CiviCon Cologne. So far I have only been to a sprint in Edale UK. The Germans copied everything from that sprint, remote location with hardly any internet. But with Germans you know it is done well. So the internet was faster (but still slow). The remote location had a bbq place, swimming pool and sauna.
We were so nervous before and now? Just happened! But it was nice.
Over the past 18 months, the CiviCRM Core Team has focused heavily on project sustainability and on balancing our own internal capacity. During that time, our infrastructure has been consistently (and thankfully) managed by Mathieu, a member of the Canada-based partner Coop SymbioTIC.