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By Névtelen Filed under GSoC

Hi! I am Niko Bochan, a undergraduate student from the University of Bonn, Germany. As part of my Google Summer of Code 2015 project I was working on improving CiviCampaign. My mentor was Björn Endres from SYSTOPIA, which is also – conveniently – based in Bonn.

You can find the last blog post here: https://civicrm.org/blogs/niko-bochan/civicrm-strategic-fundraising-and-campaigning

Project Status

All key features have been implemented:

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By Névtelen Filed under Tips

CiviCRM has a great feature that allows it to check email boxes and add new contacts and activities based on the emails in that box. Gmail has an awesome system of tags and filters. Emails in Gmail can be very tagged and sorted using a vast number of criteria. Together, Gmail can filter and sort large volumes of email with excellent accuracy, then CiviCRM can import the relevant, and only the relevant emails into the contact records.

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By cividesk Filed under Meetups

Venez nous rejoindre et échanger avec les utilisateurs français lors du prochain Meetup !

Mardi 29 Septembre de 17h à 19h.

Plus d'infos et s'inscrire ici. Nous remercions ATD Quart Monde France de leur accueil.

Contact : valerie@cividesk.com

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By cividesk Filed under Training

You are a current CiviCRM user and you would like to learn more about a particular feature, attend a CiviTip hosted by Cividesk.

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By Névtelen Filed under GSoC

Hi, I am Vishal Agarwal a fourth year undergraduate student pursuing Computer Science And Engineering at IIT-Bombay, a Google Summer of Code student for the year 2015. This is the final blogpost on my GSoC project - Integrating Google Analytics with CiviCRM. I was mentored by Kurund Jalmi. This blog post describes the features of my project.

FEATURES

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By pkeogan Filed under Case studies and user stories, Drupal 7, Interface and design
The Sustainable Furnishings Council is an educational and marketing organization, promoting healthy environments, inside and outside.
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By Névtelen Filed under Case studies and user stories

Development and Alumni Relations at the University of Cambridge migrated their bespoke system for managing Alumni Groups into their Drupal and CiviCRM website.

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By Névtelen Filed under GSoC

Hi again, I'm Anudit Verma, a sophomore undergraduate student pursuing Computer Science and Engineering at University School of Information and Communication Technology, in New Delhi, India.This year I worked on Open Supporter Data Interface (OSDI) API implementation into CiviCRM project as a 2015 Google Summer of Code student. This is my second blog post in which I will be concluding and summarizing the work I have done past this summer.

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By Névtelen Filed under GSoC
GSoC Concluding Blog (Refunds and Partial Payments for CiviCRM)

I am Tahir Ramzan, pursuing Masters in Computer Science at Virtual University of Pakistan. I was working on refunds, partial refunds and partial payments development for CiviCRM in this Google summer of code. Parvez Saleh was mentoring this project.

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By colemanw Filed under Release announcements, Security Releases

If you are currently using 4.6.7 and your site uses ACLs to segment access to contacts you are strongly encouraged to upgrade. The 4.6.7 release included a regression in the ACL system which caused certain contact access permissions to behave improperly. The 4.4 LTS branch was unaffected.

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