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Join the next meeting of the Dallas / Fort Worth CiviCRM Meetup group on Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 6:00 PM - just on the heels of Dallas Drupal Days, so we expect increased attendance. We meet every send Tuesday at Improving Enterprises in Addison.  

The team is excited to announce the fifth and probably final beta release for 4.2 with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 1.7 and WordPress.

Please remember this is a BETA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we  strongly encourage everyone to upgrade a copy of your current site(s) on a test server and let us know about any bugs or problems.

If you are a Joomla+CiviCRM user or implementer in the New York City region, you may be interested in some upcoming sessions at JoomlaDay NYC, September 22-23. Details are here: http://www.joomladaynyc.com/

On Saturday I'll be leading an Intro to CiviCRM session that will provide an overview of CiviCRM functionality and touch on some key administrator/implementer considerations.

On Sunday we'll do a developer session that covers implementing CiviCRM hooks through Joomla plugins, PHP/tpl override directories, and an introduction to the API.

If anyone from the CiviCRM community is considering attending and has specific things they'd like to see covered, please comment through this blog and I'll see if I can work it in.

The team is excited to announce the fourth beta release for 4.2 with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 1.7 and WordPress.

Please remember this is an BETA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we  strongly encourage everyone to upgrade a copy of your current site(s) on a test server and let us know about any bugs or problems.

Progressive Technology Project has released a new Drupal module called CiviCRM Cicero that integrates with the Cicero service from Azavea. If you are using CiviCRM with Drupal, you can now add legislative district and more information to your database.

Slow pages are annoying and they can cost $$$. But improving performance often means re-writing chunks of code and is often expensive. Bad performance hurts us all. So the question is how can we improve it.

The main mechanism we have used in the community so far for banding together to fund these things is the MIH - the tricky thing for performance is framing the MIH in a useful way.

The team is excited to announce the third beta release for 4.2 with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 1.7 and WordPress.

Please remember this is an BETA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we  strongly encourage everyone to upgrade a copy of your current site(s) on a test server and let us know about any bugs or problems.

I blogged a while ago about "Putting the R back in CRM" about the limits on relationships in the self-service areas.   Well I am happy to have an update.  I  (Pogstone Inc) have sponsored the creation of a new extension ( along with JMA Consulting).  This extension is taking advantage of the CiviCRM exte

Brian Shaughnessy (lcdweb), who has been working with the New York State Senate's CiviCRM project, recently raised the issue of simultaneous editing: What happens when two users simultaneously make changes to same contact record?  We've held a few discussions on IRC to examine the issue and draft some solutions.  We would appreciate further feedback and ideas on how to address the issue.

As described by Brian:

The team is excited to announce the second beta release for 4.2 with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 1.7 and WordPress.

Please remember this is a BETA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we  strongly encourage everyone to upgrade a copy of your current site(s) on a test server and let us know about any bugs or problems.