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The sixth BETA release of version 3.1 is now available for download. You can also try it out on our public demo. Check out release highlights here!. (Please remember it’s a beta release and it shouldn’t be used on production sites.)
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By definition CiviCRM is used by many organizations in the political sphere. For those organizations working in the US one useful metric to have on your contacts is their congressional district. Up until now this has usually been accomplished with either custom code, or exporting your contacts, sending them through a bulk lookup tool, and re-importing them.
After a succesful conversion of data Transnational Institute (www.tni.org) will start using CiviCRM to manager their relations today.
How much server (disk space and memory) do I need to run my CiviCRM implementation....
The answer is, of course, it depends. But what are the critical factors?
-- Data base size (Number of contacts and number of custom data fields, relationships, groups, etc.) -- Number of users (light usage vs. heavy usage) -- What other applications will be running? (A CMS with a small data base or Jasper Reports with a lot of simultaneous users.)
I think it would be good to put forth some guidelines or rules of thumb.
This is really a continuation of previous blogs on CiviCRM accounting integration. I now have some basic integration bewteen CiviCRM and Xero working and decided to do a screencast.
Screencasts are hardly my preferred medium - especially now that I've tried to make one but I thought it might be useful for people to see what a CiviCRM integration with the accounting package Xero would look like. The screencast doesn't show you any CiviCRM - just Xero and is more intended to give people an idea of what the day-to-day reality of it is.
As an extension to our implementation of CiviCRM to support my work as a state representative, we have created a voter canvassing module. It has been tested under Drupal 6.14 and Civicrm 3.01 and summarily retested under Drupal 6.15 and CiviCRM 3.03.
It is available for download at a page on my website that includes installation instructions. Please feel free to contact me at willbrownsberger at gmail.com if you would like access to my testbed to check out the application.
Here’s a group posting from Alice with Progressive Technology Project, and Kyle and Sacha with Rayogram:
I am member of the Massachusetts state legislature. I represent 40,000 people, 25,000 of whom are registered voters. I run for re-election every two years.
During the non-campaign seasons, my small (one-paid staff plus volunteers) legislative office handles an average of roughly 30 email conversations and roughly 5 new constituents per day. We work on a range of constituent and legislative issues and I run an issues discussion website based on Wordpress at willbrownsberger.com.
