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If you follow the CiviCRM blog, you've probably seen a few articles about how much fun the sprints are and what a great time everyone has. Maybe you've thought to yourself, "That's not for me. I'm not a PHP programmer or a database fanatic." Well, I'm here to say that you, yes you can come to the sprint - if you don't write code you can help write the user guide. The only prerequisites are enthusiasm about CiviCRM and a willingness to help out (and a laptop).

CiviCRM is currently used by thousands of organizations around the world, and an increasing percentage of the product and associated services come directly from the community. At the same time, as with any open source project, there are core 'keeping the lights on' activities that are critical to ensure the ongoing growth and health of the project.

For those of us that have tried CiviReport with ACL's and custom data, we'll be aware of the issue that in order to use the custom data in reports the user must have Access All Custom Data privilege enabled. This is not the desired functionality and thanks to funding from Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research a patch is available which cures the problem, allowing you to use ACL's with Custom data without compromising the CiviReport functionality.

'Is it that time of the release cycle already?', I hear ye sayeth! Well yes my medieval friends, it is! Version 4.3 has some lovely new features and I'm sure you will want to be upgrading soon.

The team is super excited to announce the third alpha release for 4.3 with support for Drupal 7.x, Joomla 2.5.x and WordPress.

Date/time: Wednesday 27th February, 2013 6:00 PM  (till 8:30PM)

Location: Gamesys, 10 Piccadilly, 4th Floor Reception, London, W1J 0DD

Registration: http://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=284

The team is excited to announce the eighth release of 4.2 stable with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 2.5 and WordPress 3.3.

One of the most common phone calls we receive at Bay Area Children's Theatre is "Are tickets still available for performance xyz?"  That call is especially common on show days, when most of our staff is at the performance venue and not in the office to answer the phone.

CHASE is an annual conference/exhibition for charities and associations... http://www.conferencehouse.co.uk/CHASE/chase_home.aspx  ...organised in London and has been running for some years now.

I'm writing to ask you to download and test 4.3.alpha2 that came out earlier today (http://civicrm.org/blogs/yashodha/civicrm-43-alpha2-out), especially anything to do with money. If you don't have the time and / or resources and / or skills to create your own test installation, please try a Drupal, Joomla!