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Hello CiviCRM community! We’re the Tor Project, long-time users of CiviCRM, and recently we shared a post on our own blog about how CiviCRM helps advance our goals as a nonprofit and our shared commitment to open source software. We also wanted to share some of the overlapping insights with the CiviCRM community.

At MJW we develop and maintain quite a number of different extensions for CiviCRM. But the one that is by far the most popular and has helped us make a name for ourselves in the CiviCRM community is the Stripe payment processor.

Thanks to the hard work of CiviCRM’s incredible community of contributors, CiviCRM version 6.4.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

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At SYSTOPIA, we've built and maintain a wide range of tools, from CiviCRM extensions to specialized solutions for European organizations. With over 60 repositories under active management, we're dedicated to enhancing the CiviCRM ecosystem. This month, we're excited to present CiviSEPA – the comprehensive SEPA Direct Debit solution that has become essential for European nonprofits managing recurring contributions and membership fees.

After the success of the CiviCamp and CiviSprint in San Fransisco last month celebrating 20 years of CiviCRM it is time to focus on the next big event! CiviCamp and CiviSprint Europe celebrating 20 years of CiviCRM coming up.

CiviCRM version 6.3.0 is now ready to download. In fact, since we're a bit late on these notes, 6.3.1 is already out and we'd recommend you start there. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

At SYSTOPIA, we've built and maintain a wide range of tools, from CiviCRM extensions to Drupal modules and more. With around 60 repositories under active management, we're dedicated to enhancing the CiviCRM ecosystem. In this release, we're happy to present our CiviProxy Extension – a customizable security solution for your CiviCRM installation.

At SYSTOPIA, we develop and maintain a variety of CiviCRM extensions, Drupal modules, and other useful tools. With over 60 active repositories, we’re always working to improve CiviCRM. In this edition of our "Extension of the Month" series, we introduce the Birthdays extension – a simple way to keep track of your contacts' birthdays.

Consistent with our push over the past year to optimize CiviCRM brand awareness, we recently rebooted the monthly Community News email and began cross promotion of it and its individual items (blog posts, event announcements, etc.) on to other channels such as LinkedIn and Blue Sky.

During the Point Montara Lighthouse Sprint, Alain Benbassat, David Moreton, and Don Hirst worked on making the CiviCRM documentation better with a more robust but easy to follow process for producing and improving docs.

We started with the Diátaxis Framework, which has the core idea that: 

Since the middle of last year there have been some tools in CiviCRM core to help with maintaining workflow templates that have not been well publicised … Notably Site Tokens (worked on at the South Carolina Sprint by Allen Shaw of Joinery) and some tweaks for easier editing in the Message Admin extension (which ships as part of CiviCRM but which you may need to enable). 

CiviCRM version 6.2.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

In this blog series, we introduce useful extensions for CiviCRM. Each month, we showcase one of the many extensions we have developed at SYSTOPIA over the years. This time, we're looking at the Twingle API Extension – a practical solution to automatically transfer donations from Twingle to CiviCRM.

TLDR: Site-builders who manage CiviCRM extensions in the web UI should install the Hotfix: Extension Upgrades or upgrade to v6.1. Similarly, site-builders who manage extensions with cv CLI should update to v0.3.63+.

After 17 years of shipping with the Greenwich theme, the release of CiviCRM 6 last month brought to new installs a new default theme, Minetta, named after the river running under Greenwich, New York. But Civi 6 didn't mark the arrival of just one new theme; it shipped with four themes: Minetta, Walbrook, HackneyBrook and Thames.