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At the 7th of February we had a video call about the wordpress caldera plugin. Which is now maintained by the CiviCRM community.

CiviCRM version 5.70.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

Whether you're an experienced developer or site builder OR are just learning the ropes, come to the free Developer Intro to CiviCRM Entity training Tuesday, February 13th 10am PST / 12pm EST / 6pm GMT

Don't miss the first 2024 North American CiviCRM conference on February 28!

CiviCamp Montreal is around the corner, just four weeks away!

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During the UK sprint last December a couple of people (mainly Kevin andKlaas) have worked on the Wordpress Caldera Plugin. Since May 2022 theCiviCRM Community took over the maintenance of the caldera forms plugin(not to be confused with the Caldera CiviCRM Plugin). The caldera formsplugin is a tool to create forms in Wordpress and the are a couple ofplugins which integrates Caldera with CiviCRM.

Howdy folks!

At SYSTOPIA, we have developed a large set of CiviCRM extensions, Drupal modules and other tools over the years. Currently, we are actively maintaining or co-maintaining over 60 repositories. Unfortunately, sharing knowledge about all the goodness with the community has notoriously fallen short. With this series of blog posts, we want to change that a little. Thanks for reading on!

CiviCRM version 5.69.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

We will be promoting CiviCRM at FOSDEM in Brussels on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 February 2024.

FOSDEM is an annual non-commercial event centered on free and open-source software development. With over 8000 attendees, it is one of the biggest open source conferences.

Many many years ago (quite possibly 2016), at about the same time, AGH Strategies and the Progressive Technology Project (PTP) each developed an extension called "Petition Email." Both extensions provided the exact same missing feature for CiviCRM's Petition component: When a signer fills out a CiviCRM petition, an email is automatically sent to a pre-defined target.

Learn how to seamlessly integrate your CiviCRM data into your Drupal site for improved customization. We'll cover the basics, like why CiviCRM matters, and show hands-on examples like setting up an online member directory and displaying top donors.

Here's what you can expect:

In this day and age where information is a valuable asset, ensuring the security and privacy of your association data has become essential. Associations handle a large amount of sensitive information, therefore data security is a big thing.

This blog will help highlight how we've used CiviCRM as an effective tool around the critical nature of safeguarding data against unauthorized access, data breaches, and legal repercussions.

Being new to the Civi community, I have been asked several times how my first sprint was. Well, read for yourself: After two days of a great admin training, where I learned so much about the core functions of CiviCRM, it was also exciting to hear about new extensions and developments at the CiviCamp.

CiviCRM version 5.68.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

There was a great turnout for CiviCamp Manchester on 1 December 2023.