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2 README file for CiviCRM
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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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25 CiviCRM is released as a module that runs within the Drupal, Joomla,
26 and WordPress content management systems.
28 It can be downloaded from
29 http://downloads.civicrm.org/
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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.
38 Our main documentation site is the wiki at http://wiki.civicrm.org/
39 - particularly http://docs.civicrm.org/
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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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53 All support is on the CiviCRM forums:
54 http://forum.civicrm.org/
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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
64 You can check out the CiviCRM source from
65 http://svn.civicrm.org/