[apologies for cross-posting] The CiviCRM Team is proud to announce the release of CiviCRM 1.0 Beta. We'd like to thank over 50 individuals whose contributions have helped make the nonprofit, community-driven CiviCRM project a reality (see the list below). If you have any questions, please contact David Geilhufe at info@socialsourcefoundation.org. A demo of the software is available at http://www.openngo.org/. CiviCRM is an open source, internationalized, nonprofit-centric constituent relationship management core. It is designed to handle common contact and relationship needs (CRM needs) in the nonprofit and nongovernmental sectors. CiviCRM will form the basis of a number of end-user targeted applications including CivicSpace 0.8.2 and the Social Source Foundation's donor/constituent management, broadcast email and online donations solution (if you are interested in being a beta customer of this web-based solution, please contact info@socialsourcefoundation.org). CiviCRM currently runs within the content management systems Drupal and Mambo. CiviCRM will operate as a standalone application latter this year. CiviCRM 1.0 Beta is focused on developers and integrators. Truth in Advertising: Organizations considering CiviCRM to meet specific organizational needs should carefully evaluate whether CiviCRM 1.0 is a viable solution for your organization (try the demo for yourself at http://www.openngo.org/). **************************************** Features **************************************** CiviCRM 1.0: Comprehensive Central Repository of Contact and Relationship Information -- Contacts: Individuals, Organizations & Households. Store common nonprofit data types supporting donor management, case management, voter, and advocacy applications. -- Extensible and virtually unlimited fields. Unlimited locations, addresses, phones, emails and custom data fields offer the flexibility to map CiviCRM to the way you and your organization operate. -- Relationships between contacts. Use common relationships like volunteer, head-of-household and employee to understand the connections between contacts, or create your own unique custom relationship types. -- Groups of contacts. Interact with collections of contacts by putting them into groups. Groups are collections of individual contact records. -- Tags. Classify and categorize contacts with simple searchable tags. -- Custom data. Define your own fields in the format that works for you (text, radio buttons, drop downs, etc.) Download the feature overview: - http://makeashorterlink.com/?S1F64216B or - http://objectledge.org/confluence/download/attachments/3481/ civicrm1.0features.pdf?version=1 Detailed list of features: - http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2073216B or - http://objectledge.org/confluence/display/CRM/CiviCRM+1.0+Complete +Feature+List **************************************** Demo **************************************** The CiviCRM 1.0 Beta demo can be accessed in English or Polish here: - http://www.openngo.org **************************************** Ready for Developer Use **************************************** CiviCRM is ready for developers to begin integrating CiviCRM 1.0 into their applications. The first major planned integration will be into CivicSpace 0.8.2. We look forward to announcing others... how about you? The CiviCRM team will be providing bug fixing and implementation support to developers using the CiviCRM 1.0 code base. Please do not hesitate to contact the project team via the email list if you have questions or need assistance: - http://lists.objectledge.net/mailman/listinfo/crm-dev Download CiviCRM 1.0: Visit http://www.openngo.org/ and click on the download links on the right side. Installation Documentation: - http://makeashorterlink.com/?A5172116B or - http://objectledge.org/confluence/display/CRM/Installation+Guide+for +Developers API Documentation: - http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y2272116B or - http://objectledge.org/confluence/display/CRM/CRM+Public+APIs PLEASE NOTE: CiviCRM 1.0 was designed and tested for Apache2, MySQL 4.1 and PHP 4.3.11/5. Alternative instructions and downloads are provided for Apache 1.3, MySQL 4.0 and PHP 4. **************************************** Keeping Abreast **************************************** The OpenNGO website links to most of the important information about CiviCRM and related projects. - http://www.openngo.org Subscribe to the OpenNGO blog: - http://www.openngo.org/blog/1 Subscribe to the CiviCRM email list: - http://lists.objectledge.net/mailman/listinfo/crm-dev **************************************** Future Roadmap **************************************** Future releases are defined here: - http://makeashorterlink.com/?U1BA4326B or - http://objectledge.org/confluence/display/CRM/OpenNGO+Roadmap Highlights include: -- Broadcast email. A modular solution to handle initially broadcast email and eventually listserves. Natively integrated with CiviCRM. -- Online Donations. A modular solution to handle donations via Paypal and other transaction processors. Natively integrated with CiviCRM. ********************************************************** Thanks to everyone that makes CiviCRM possible: ********************************************************** CiviCRM/ Social Source Foundation Staff (US, India & Poland): **************************************** Anil Kokitkar Brian McFee Dave Greenberg David Geilhufe Donald Lobo Kurund Jalmi Manish Zope Michał Mach Piotr Szotkowski Siddharth Bhawalkar Yashesh Bhatia CiviCRM Core Partners: **************************************** CivicSpace Labs PicNet CivicActions/ Advokit Contributors (partial list) **************************************** Aaron Kreider Aaron Welch Aldon Hynes Amanda Hickman Andre Molnar Andrew Hoppin Ankur Rishi Bob Schmitt Charlie Lindahl Cheryl Chase Chris Messina Dan Robinson Dave Lange David Gammel Dirk Slater Ethan Winn Gavin White Gregory Heller Howard Johnson Henri Poole Jesse K. Mortenson John Lorance John Springer Jon Lebkowsky Karl Thiessen Kieran Lal Liza Sabater Michael Haggerty Michael Mell Michael Spredemann Mimi Yin Neil Drumm Pat Dunlavey Phil Wolff Robert Morrison Ryan Ozimek Sheldon Rampton Simone Parrish Tim Bishop Walt Daniels Zack Rosen Try CiviCRM at http://www.openngo.org/ David Geilhufe Founder Social Source Foundation dgeilhufe -AT- socialsourcefoundation -DOT- org http://www.socialsourcefoundation.org/