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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements, Security Releases

The team is super excited to announce that CiviCRM 4.6.9 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.6 demo site.

The latest release of CiviCRM 4.6 includes security fixes. While this issue is unlikely to affect the average CiviCRM site, it is recommended to upgrade to the latest version to keep your site as secure as possible.

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the third alpha release of CiviCRM 4.7 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.7 sandbox site!

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By josh Filed under Marketing and Promotion

In case you haven’t noticed, we don’t spend a ton of time on marketing and sales. Not only is our budget for marketing small (and by 'small', I mean 'tiny'), just take a quick look at the makeup of the Core Team and at our roadmap and you should get a good sense of what our focus is (and is not).

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By Gast Filed under Community

CiviCRM makes San Francisco Baykeeper a better advocate for San Francisco Bay. Before Baykeeper started using CiviCRM, we had a Stone-Age system for accepting online donations, a custom event registration system that we paid a developer to update for every event, and a separate database for sending emails and managing email contacts.

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By BjoernE Filed under Internationalization and Localization, Sprints

If you (and your colleagues/users) are an English native speaker, DON'T READ THIS. You don't have to bother. Lucky you.

The rest of the world: Here's your chance to get rid of those weird translations that you just cannot get right for all the places it's used...

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the second alpha release of CiviCRM 4.7 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.7 sandbox site!

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By Gast Filed under CiviCon, Community, Meetups

Thoughts from the 2015 User Summit in Washington DC 9.23.15-9.25.15.

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By cividesk Filed under Case studies and user stories

 An Interview with the Vietnamese Friendship Association.

The Vietnamese Friendship Association (VFA) of Seattle is a non-profit organization that promotes equality in education, fosters civic engagement, and advocates for Vietnamese and other refugee and immigrant communities.  The organization focuses on supporting students and families, engaging leaders and working with diverse communities to support systems changes. Cividesk recently spoke with James Hong, Executive director and Kristina Ong, Fund Development Manager about how CiviCRM has helped them accomplish their mission.

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the first alpha release of CiviCRM 4.7 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.7 sandbox site!

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By totten Filed under Architecture

Civi v4.7 introduces some overhauls to the core CiviCRM development framework. Some of the planning discussions can be found in the forum, but now that it's merged and stablized a bit, I wanted to give a walk-through for other developers. A few highlights:

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