We recently updated our appeal for financial support on our download page and included a financial metric with two specific elements that I want to expand upon. In essence, we’ve published both the absolute dollar amount needed to balance the remainder of our 2015 budget (~ $300k) and we’ve qualified it by stating that this is the amount necessary for sustainability.
Blogs
IATS has been a payment processor extension with CiviCRM for quite a while and has been actively developed & supported. If you are using the IATS extension you can say a quiet thank you to Alan, Karin & Stephen & stop reading.
Cividesk will be offering on-line classes for new users (Contacts, Membership, Events and Contribution management) during the month of August. Classes are two hours in length and are limited in size to allow for questions from students throughout the session.
Click here to see a class schedule for August and to access registration information.
Drupal 8 is likely to be released around September. Fuzion have been driving the initiative to have CiviCRM ready to roll when Drupal 8 is released and there have already been some generous sponsors for our work to help get us this far.
The team is super excited to announce that CiviCRM 4.6.5 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.6 demo site.
I am often asked by our clients to help with hire a CiviCRM administrator. This can be a new hire or a promotion of someone within the organization. Although every organization has specific needs, I've found the below job description to be helpful as a starting point. Hopefully you can find it helpful as well.
At the code sprint after CiviCon Denver, Tyrell Cook and I tackled some much-needed updates to Civi's wysiwyg system. A wysiwyg editor (what you see is what you get) is the mini word processor you use to compose emails, activities, notes, and other rich-text in CiviCRM forms.