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README file for CiviCRM
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1. About
2. Installation
3. Documentation
4. Support
5. Development



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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. Installation
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The download URLs and installation instructions are available on our
website:

http://civicrm.org/go/download


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


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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

Installing the latest developmental code requires some special steps. Full
instructions are on the wiki:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC43/Github+for+CiviCRM