Civicanada

As many of you may know (http://civicrm.org/node/532), there is going to be a CiviCRM book writing sprint in California on a new FLOSS publication for CiviCRM during the week of May 4, 2009. But even you can't make it to those sunny climes, you can have your say on what they should be writing...

As CiviCRM integrators, admins, and users, please feel free to review and add topics to the draft book outline here:

http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/CiviCRM/Outline

Hello
1. I am looking for a way to integrate civiContribute donations page as Drupal6 node. I found civiNode and civiNodeCCK but this module has not been updated for Drupal6. (It seems its development was paid for by good old Green Party of Canada.) Any suggestions?

CiviCRM is an open source constituent relationship management system that works very well with Drupal (as well as with Joomla! and stand-alone). Where Drupal concentrates on content management, CiviCRM shines at managing contact interactions. CiviCRM data can be accessed using some existing modules, but it would be great to see more robust support for accessing CiviCRM data using Views.

Toronto-based medical imaging startup looking for an experienced Drupal developer for custom programming on a
freelance/contract basis. Must be responsible, self sufficient, able to work with limited supervision.

Responsibilities
* Custom PHP/PostgreSQL coding (e.g., Drupal modules and custom DBMS queries)
* Feedback on functional specifications
* Website architecture planning
* Custom module development
* Bug fixes
* Work closely with other developers and designers
* Active participation in the Drupal development community

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

We are pleased to announce that CiviCRM 1.7 stable is now available for download.

CiviCRM is the first open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, internationalised, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups.

New to CiviCRM? Read more at http://civicrm.org/

What's New in 1.7

The big news for 1.7 is CiviEvent - providing integrated online event registration and management for paid and free events. This release also includes a new "Contact Dashboard", which gives constituents a consolidated view of their subscriptions, contributions, event registrations and more.

Other release highlights include:
* Create and save re-usable email templates (with mail-merge tokens)
* CiviContribute plugins for Authorize.net and Google Checkout
* Use customized versions of templates for any screen
* One-click copying for existing Profiles, Contribution Pages and Events
* Restrict access to selected custom data fields and selected profile screens

I'm planning to organize some Civicrm sessions at the upcoming drupalcamp in toronto http://drupalcamptoronto.org/

I'm noticing that the civicanada group (http://groups.drupal.org/civicanada where i'm posting this), which I setup after an ad hoc session on civicrm at the last toronto drupal camp, is pretty defunct. I'm hoping that's due to a lack of leadership on my part rather than a lack of interest in the topic. In any case, if you're interested in helping out, or have some input into the content of such a session, let me know.

CiviCRM 1.6: A Free and Open Source eCRM Solution

We are pleased to announce the latest release of CiviCRM – version 1.6.

Special thanks to the dedicated folks who contributed to this release by testing the alpha and beta revisions — and to everyone in the community who provided new ideas, feedback (especially critical feedback), and patches.

CiviCRM is the first open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, internationalised, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups.

We are happy to announce that our 1.6 Alpha release is now available for preview and testing on our servers. We'd like to get as many folks trying out the new features as possible over the next week. This will help us move quickly to a downloadable Beta release - which is currently scheduled for November 29.

You can login to the sandbox at:

http://sandbox.trunk.civicrm.org

User - demo
Password - demo

Highlights of the release - and things we especially like folks to try out are:
* Ajax-based suggestive search in the Contact Search box (left column)
* Dynamically loaded sections in Advanced Search and Contact View Screens

Check out the new CiviCRM web-site at http://civicrm.org .... !

We've re-designed and re-organized the site from the ground up, and we hope folks will find it easier to locate resources and learn about the project...

The new site includes a Professional Services directory, and we encourage you to check out the listings if you need technical resources to implement or extend CiviCRM...
http://civicrm.org/professional

We'll be using the Team blog to post interesting news and updates as to what's happening on the project here...
http://civicrm.org/blog/1

We've also collected some of your "success stories" and have them rotating on the front page. Let us know if you want to add your story to the site...