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Does your organisation/client run recurring events eg weekly classes, courses, groups?  If so, they would probably love to have the ability to easily set up and deal with this in Civi, including the ability to easily record and report on attendance.  I blogged about this recently at http://civicrm.org/blogs/lindseym/recurring-events-and-attendance-reporting-core-civi-functions#comment-6270

Following discussions with lobo we've established that recurring events and attendance reporting (plus some of the other features mentioned by others in the blog) could be part of the 4.2 Civi release in March/April 2012... if we can fund it.  The project has been costed at around £8,000 ($12,850).  Can you help us take these next crucial steps?

1. We need to secure seed funding of one third of this cost (£2,640 or $4,250). My organisation will consider seed funding if I can get 2 or 3 other organisations to share the cost.  As a seed funder you will help to shape this functionality so it's well worth getting involved at this level.  More importantly, I need to secure seed funding BEFORE this can officially become a Make It Happen (MIH) Project which enables others to then part-fund it too.

2. Once we have seed funding others can then contribute as much/little as they can to fund this in full by mid-Jan.  Lobo said that if we can secure all the funding within 2 months the developments will be part of the 4.2 release.

So... this functionality can really become part of Civi core.  It's within sight, so as a CiviEvent user please step up to offer seed funding if possible or funding once it goes lives as a MIH.  Seed funding asap is the key.  I do believe that making recurring events and attendance easy to deal with will not only make Civi more functional for many current users, but it will open Civi-use up to many other organisations which run courses, classes and so on.  No more work-arounds or additional modules if it's core to Civi!

Please get in touch.  Either comment on this post and/or email me directly on lindsey.mansfield@woodlandschurch.net  Many thanks.
Lindsey