README.txt

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   2 README file for CiviCRM
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   4 1. About
   5 2. Installation
   6 3. Documentation
   7 4. Support
   8 5. Development
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  13 1. About
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  15 CiviCRM is a constituent relationship management system designed to
  16 meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups.
  17 It is an open source project, licensed under GNU AGPL 3, and
  18 coordinated by CiviCRM LLC. The project website is http://civicrm.org/
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  20 CiviCRM is released as a module that runs within the Drupal, Joomla,
  21 and WordPress content management systems.
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  25 2. Installation
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  27 The download URLs and installation instructions are available on our
  28 website:
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  30 http://civicrm.org/go/download
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  34 3. Documentation
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  36 Documentation, as well as the project bug tracker and mailing lists,
  37 can be found at http://civicrm.org/ Just click on the appropriate link.
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  39 Our main documentation site is the wiki at http://wiki.civicrm.org/
  40 - particularly http://docs.civicrm.org/
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  44 4. Support
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  46 All support is on the CiviCRM forums:
  47 http://forum.civicrm.org/
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  51 5. Development
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  53 Developers are highly encouraged to join the CiviCRM forums and post
  54 questions and ideas on the Developer Discussion board:
  55 http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/board,20.0.html
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  57 Installing the latest developmental code requires some special steps. Full
  58 instructions are on the wiki:
  59 http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Github+for+CiviCRM
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  61 Report all issues to CiviCRM via JIRA:
  62 http://issues.civicrm.org