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README file for CiviCRM
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-1. Who
-2. What
+1. About
+2. Installation
3. Documentation
-4. Installation
-5. Support
-6. Developers
+4. Support
+5. Development
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-1. Who
+1. About
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CiviCRM is a constituent relationship management system designed to
meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups.
It is an open source project, licensed under GNU AGPL 3, and
coordinated by CiviCRM LLC. The project website is http://civicrm.org/
+CiviCRM is released as a module that runs within the Drupal, Joomla,
+and WordPress content management systems.
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-2. What
+2. Installation
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-CiviCRM is released as a module that runs within the Drupal, Joomla,
-and WordPress content management systems.
+Links to download the full CiviCRM package are on our website:
+http://civicrm.org/go/download
-It can be downloaded from
-http://downloads.civicrm.org/
+Installation instruction can be found on the wiki:
+http://wiki.civicrm.org/
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Documentation, as well as the project bug tracker and mailing lists,
can be found at http://civicrm.org/ Just click on the appropriate link.
-Our main documentation site is the wiki at http://wiki.civicrm.org/
-- particularly http://docs.civicrm.org/
+Our main documentation site is the CiviCRM wiki:
+http://wiki.civicrm.org/
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-4. Installation
+4. Support
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-The main installation documentation is available on our documentation web site
-under the Install section:
-http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Installation+and+Upgrades
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+The best place to get support is from the CiviCRM Stack Exchange site:
+http://civicrm.stackexchange.com/
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-5. Support
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-All support is on the CiviCRM forums:
+There is also a forum, for more in-depth discussions:
http://forum.civicrm.org/
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-6. Developers
+5. Development
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Developers are highly encouraged to join the CiviCRM forums and post
questions and ideas on the Developer Discussion board:
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/board,20.0.html
-You can check out the CiviCRM source from
-http://svn.civicrm.org/
+Installing the latest developmental code requires some special steps. Full
+instructions are on the wiki:
+http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Github+for+CiviCRM
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+Report all issues to CiviCRM via JIRA:
+http://issues.civicrm.org