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| 2 | README file for CiviCRM |
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| 4 | 1. Who |
| 5 | 2. What |
| 6 | 3. Documentation |
| 7 | 4. Installation |
| 8 | 5. Support |
| 9 | 6. Developers |
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| 14 | 1. Who |
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| 16 | CiviCRM is a constituent relationship management system designed to |
| 17 | meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups. |
| 18 | It is an open source project, licensed under GNU AGPL 3, and |
| 19 | coordinated by CiviCRM LLC. The project website is http://civicrm.org/ |
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| 23 | 2. What |
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| 25 | CiviCRM is released as a module that runs within the Drupal, Joomla, |
| 26 | and WordPress content management systems. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | It can be downloaded from |
| 29 | http://downloads.civicrm.org/ |
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| 33 | 3. Documentation |
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| 35 | Documentation, as well as the project bug tracker and mailing lists, |
| 36 | can be found at http://civicrm.org/ Just click on the appropriate link. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | Our main documentation site is the wiki at http://wiki.civicrm.org/ |
| 39 | - particularly http://docs.civicrm.org/ |
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| 43 | 4. Installation |
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| 45 | The main installation documentation is available on our documentation web site |
| 46 | under the Install section: |
| 47 | http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Installation+and+Upgrades |
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| 51 | 5. Support |
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| 53 | All support is on the CiviCRM forums: |
| 54 | http://forum.civicrm.org/ |
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| 58 | 6. Developers |
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| 60 | Developers are highly encouraged to join the CiviCRM forums and post |
| 61 | questions and ideas on the Developer Discussion board: |
| 62 | http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/board,20.0.html |
| 63 | |
| 64 | You can check out the CiviCRM source from |
| 65 | http://svn.civicrm.org/ |