README.txt

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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.
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  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.
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  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
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  64 You can check out the CiviCRM source from
  65 http://svn.civicrm.org/