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CiviCRM is so much more than software
Around nine years ago, my wife Virginie was Executive Director for the Rocky Mountain French American Chamber of Commerce, and struggling with Excel spreadsheets, paper memberships forms, and...
View ArticleCiviCon Colorado 2016 is One Month Away!
There is still time to register for the 2016 CiviCon! Visit www.colorado2016.civicrm.org for a complete list of sessions, the schedule, and FAQ's about the event.All events will take place on the...
View ArticleAnnouncing CiviCRM 4.6.16 and 4.7.7 Security Release
The latest release of CiviCRM 4.6 and 4.7 includes security fixes. We recommend upgrading to 4.7.7 or 4.6.16 to ensure the security of your site and data. The latest releases include 2 moderately...
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Submit sessions for the CiviCRM User Summit
This year seems to have flown by, and it's time to solicit CiviCRM User Summit sessions. If you use CiviCRM at your organization and have a story to tell—how you use a feature, what interesting...
View ArticleChat infrastructure for CiviCRM
In September last year, the core team started using Slack (a proprietary chat platform) to improve our internal communication and co-ordination. It worked really nicely for us and coordination and we...
View ArticleActive contributor framework step one: collect data
It's been on our agenda for a good while to improve the way that we recognize the contributions people make to CiviCRM. I'm pleased to report that we've made some decent progress on this front. We now...
View Article[GSoC 2016] RepoBuilder - Report Builder GUI for CiviCRM
Hi Everyone! Thanks for visiting the blog post. I am Pranay (21 | Male | India). I am pursuing my bachelors and masters in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and have just...
View ArticleCreate "Member Only" Premiums with Early Bird Extension
About a year ago, IMBA's membership team noticed many of our members were renewing after their expiry date, and often after the "Lapsed" or grace period of two months we have in place. To help...
View Article4.7.8 Group Contact Cache deadlocks improvement
Busy sites have often encountered problems with deadlocks on the group contact cache. There were no less that 3 different code contributions to mitigate this problem put up for 4.7.8 and a number of...
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Introducing CiviCareers: the job listing for CiviCRM users
With over ten thousand organizations using CiviCRM worldwide, you might think it would be easy to find qualified, experienced people to hire for your job opportunities. However, it can sometimes be a...
View ArticleCiviCon is heading south!
On Friday 5 May 2017, CiviCRM developers and users will meet in Canberra, Australia for the first ever Australian CiviCon. The day will be a mix of technical sessions for developers and system...
View ArticleCiviCRM: Going Mobile
Anyone who has tried to login to their CiviCRM database via their phone knows the feeling: utter helplessness. You would even be forgiven for thinking CiviCRM is actively hostile to the small...
View ArticleCiviCRM - A unique CRM with a passionate community
In late 2009, we were looking for a better solution for one of our larger faith-based clients. The AMS and CRMs we investigated were either too expensive or too simplistic. We had taken a hard look at...
View ArticleAnnouncing CiviCRM 4.6.17 and 4.7.8 Security Release
The latest release of CiviCRM 4.6 and 4.7 includes security fixes. We recommend upgrading to 4.7.8 or 4.6.17 to ensure the security of your site and data. The latest releases include 2 moderately...
View ArticleCiviCon North West Europe 2016 was a good one!
This year we had the second CiviCon in North West Europe, which was in Woerden this year, a small town near Utrecht in The Netherlands. Before I tell you more about the event let me start by thanking...
View ArticleFirst Budapest CiviCRM Meetup
2nd june 2016. we organized the first Budapest CiviCRM Meetup. Unfortunately the attendance was low. We discussed the state of CiviCRM in Hungary, as now only 25 sites registered and 21 uses in...
View ArticleBetter Extensions for Users and Developers
With the introduction of the teams and working groups structure, the CiviCRM core team has created more opportunities than ever for community members to step forward and contribute in a clear,...
View Article2016 Colorado Code Sprint: Day 1
In line with tradition (confirmed by exhaustive research and returning code sprint attendees) I have been tasked with the typical initiation duty of writing a blog post about my first CiviCRM code...
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Some 17 syllable thoughts from the sprint
Inspired by a colleague I suggested we report today's sprint events in Haiku. Here are the burnt offerings from Colarado! Bugs & QA teamMany Civi Bugs Ate the sprinters pesticide And died horribly...
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