Blog posts by josh

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Listopad 1, 2018
By josh Filed under Community, Sustainability
Contributor Elections

Of the 261 voters in this election, 199 cast ballots.

Those elected are:

Allen Shaw, US

Claire Williams, UK

Erika Bjune, US

Kathryn Carruthers, Canada

Rose Lanigan, UK

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Październik 25, 2018
By josh Filed under Community
Background

The first annual CiviCRM Governance Summit was held in New Jersey, USA on 25/26 September 2018, attended by 29 people - core team, partners, users and service providers from around the globe.

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Październik 4, 2018
By josh Filed under Community
Seeking community members to help shape CiviCRM’s future
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Październik 1, 2018
By josh Filed under Community

Last week, stakeholders from the CiviCRM community came together to discuss issues of governance and sustainability, and to review recent developments in CiviCRM as well as how it’s managed. We called it a Governance Summit because there was a lot of interest in governance. Regardless, this was fundamentally a “Community Summit” where members of the community could work together to improve CiviCRM as a whole.

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Wrzesień 30, 2018
By josh Filed under Tools, Community

We’re continuing to use Gitlab (https://lab.civicrm.org/explore/groups) more and more as both a project management and development tool. One area that we’ve been tinkering with over the past several months is using Gitlab for feature requests in CiviCRM. As you can imagine, there’s real potential here to empower the CiviCRM community to create, discuss and promote new features and functionality in CiviCRM.

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Wrzesień 30, 2018
By josh Filed under Form Builder, Architecture, Interface and design, Make it happen

The recent DevCamp in New Jersey presented several sessions on new developments in CiviCRM land as well as showcased several of its inner workings. One session presented by Core Team member Tim Otten stood out for me: Form Builder.

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Kwiecień 15, 2018
By josh Filed under Sprints, Sustainability

The CiviCRM Core Team is pleased to announce what we hope will become an annual event; a combined governance summit and code sprint. This year’s event will begin on September 25th, immediately following CiviCamp Hartford, and will be located in West Milford, New Jersey (within an hour from major airports).

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Styczeń 15, 2018
By josh Filed under Community

Last year, we overhauled the CiviCRM contributor program, allowing individuals to submit details about their contributions online as well combined the contributor and partner listing. So far this year, we’ve seen an increase in contributions being logged as well as a new revision to site that improves visibility of contributions.

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Czerwiec 19, 2017
By josh Filed under CiviCRM

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.

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Czerwiec 14, 2017
By josh Filed under Tools, Community

Along with the Core Team, several contributors in the community have been testing Gitlab as an overall project management and communications tools for the CiviCRM community. Though it’s still a work in progress, we’re happy to start pushing it out to the broader community in hopes that it can provide a more cohesive platform for project management and community engagement.

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