The team is super excited to announce that the second alpha release of CiviCRM 4.6 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.6 sandbox site!
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If you've been following the CiviCRM blog, you probably noticed the reports from Google Summer of Code 2014: Siddhant Rajagopalan built a new CiviMail composition screen, and Aditya Nambiar built an A/B testing system.
The Bay Area Children’s Theatre (BACT) in Oakland, California was formed to help people develop a lifelong love for live theatre. From the get-go, the program was a success and quickly grew to the more than 54,000 constituents it has today.
The team is super excited to announce that the first alpha release of CiviCRM 4.6 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.6 sandbox site!
One of the 'features' of CiviCRM that has been an ongoing source of contention among our customers has been what happens when expired memberships are renewed. The current behaviour is that the existing expired membership has it's end date extended and the start date is altered to reflect the start of the latest membership period. This is great for figuring out when someone first became a member way back when. But, it makes it very hard to see breaks in their membership.
Is your New Year’s resolution to shape up your CiviCRM skills? Learn how to better utilize CiviCRM by participating in these on-line classes taught by Cividesk. All classes are two hours in length and designed for the new user, however many current users find the courses helpful to complete their knowledge in a particular area of the CRM. Each course focues on a different topic: Contacts, Membership, Events and Contribution management.
We have just created an extension for MAF Norge that produces an XML file for the tax authorities with the deductible amount for the year for each donor. With a little configuration customization (detailed in the documentation on GitHub) it can be used by any Norwegian organization that has to produce this file every year. MAF Norge is currently testing the extension.
Summary
Beginning with CiviCRM v4.6, developing code for CiviCRM (civicrm-core.git) will require two additional tools: Composer and NodeJS. If you develop CiviCRM, then you should install them in order to continue development.
The team is pleased to announce the fifth stable release of the incredible CiviCRM 4.5 series. These release include a security fix and a number of other improvements.
The security issue only affects sites using the CiviCase component. Read the security announcement for details.
Alumni Festival is organised every year and typically consists of 140 events such as topical lectures, tours of colleges/departments and opportunities for Alumni to return to the city and re-experience some of their time at Cambridge. The events take place over 3 days and around 1100 alumni and guests book each year.
