120 users and interested people from about 70 organisations gathered on Monday, September 11, 2023 in Leipzig for the CiviCamp organised by Software für Engagierte e.V..
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For 33 of the participants at the CiviCamp in Leipzig, it went straight on: for two more days, they worked on the further development of CiviCRM in a sprint in the small town of Zeitz near Leipzig in the "Alte Nudelfabrik". "Software für Engagierte" had proclaimed the topic of "fundraising" as its focus. And so this sprint not only involved developers and CiviCRM implementers - but with Civi admins, power users and experienced fundraisers, a broad spectrum of CiviCRM experience and expertise came together.
This article is based on Michael McAndrew's lighting talk at CiviCamp London. Let's start the conversation on how CiviCRM can become more environmentally sustainable.
Whenever a new CiviCRM version is released, the announcements tend to focus on new features, which lately have been mostly improvements to SearchKit, FormBuilder and Api4, the underlying tools that will help build new CiviCRM interfaces. While you can already use SearchKit/FormBuilder for custom listings and forms, out of the box, the improvements are not very visible.
The first meeting of the newly constituted CiviCRM Community Council was held July, 13, 2023.
It’s tough not to go down memory lane and talk about the fact that CiviCRM used to support a version that didn’t require a content management system. Alas, it was an idea that was ahead of its time! For whatever reason CiviCRM Standalone faded away, but not quite into oblivion. Over the years there were folks that tried to keep it going and for good reason; it lacks the baggage of any of the CMS’s.
Please join me in congratulating the new CiviCRM Community Council.
There are 11 positions on the council, and we had 11 individuals with two community members who vouched for them, so they are all acclaimed.
The new membership is as follows :
On Friday 2nd June 2023 there is a CiviCamp in Brussels, a wonderful opportunity to meet others in the CiviCRM community, share your stories, hear what others achieve with CiviCRM and enjoy a nice lunch....Sessions from Amnesty International Vlaanderen, Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen and much more.
Still some places left, check https://www.civicampbrussels2023.org/ for the details on the programme and register today!
Simple conversion tracking for your contribution and event pages
No doubt many organisations use Google Analytics and whilst they probably have lots of tracking in place, we established that current extensions and functionality for CiviCRM did not allow putting monetary value to conversions.
On 2 May 2023, the Caldera Forms Collaboration Initiative met to exchange views on Caldera Forms and PHP8. Here you can read the most important results of the meeting and especially how we want to improve the PHP8 compatibility of the plugin and its CiviCRM integrations – and how you can get involved.
