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README file for CiviCRM
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1. Who
2. What
3. Documentation
4. Installation
5. Support
6. Developers



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1. Who
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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/


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2. What
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CiviCRM is released as a module that runs within the Drupal, Joomla,
and WordPress content management systems.

It can be downloaded from
http://downloads.civicrm.org/


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3. Documentation
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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/


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4. Installation
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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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5. Support
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All support is on the CiviCRM forums:
http://forum.civicrm.org/


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6. Developers
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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/