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IN THIS ISSUE:

A special thanks to the members of our Joomla! community who contributed articles to this month's issue: Merav Knafo, Anh Tuan Bui, Paul de Raaij, Abolhassan Firoozmandan, and Meta Krujis!

Editor’s Introduction

• Lessons about openness and transparency from a budget discussion, written by Paul Orwig

Feature stories

• Nicholas G. Antimisiaris shares his thoughts on how to best move our project forward in Push me, pull you....
• Anh Tuan Bui summarizes key features of Helpful E-mail
• Marketing Components for Joomla! Powered Websites.
• Robert Vining gives a shoutout to all of the Joomla! Voices Heard Around the World.

International stories

• Abolhassan Firoozmandan has submitted an article written in Farsi for this issue.
• Opportunities are now open for community members to submit articles in 22 different languages.

Website Case Studies

• Robert Vining reveals how Joomla! powers the CMS Expo (this major event is happening May 2-4 in Chicago).

Leadership Connections

• Alice Grevet shares updates on what OSM has been doing during April on behalf of the Joomla! project.

JUGs and Events

• Meta Krujis shares some secrets of success in Organizing Dutch Joomla! days and back to life again.
• Hagen Graf talks about the Awesomenimity at J and Beyond 2011.

Developers Workbench

• Cristina Solana invites you to join her with your pail and shovel in The Sandbox Manifesto.
• Merav Knafo counts down the 5 ways to document your Joomla! extension.
• Paul de Raaij shares the benefits of using an Object Relational Mapping framework in Using Doctrine ORM in Joomla!.

Designer's studio

• Anthony Olsen sparks the flame in How to put more love into your Joomla! dates...

The Joomla! Haikus

• Prolific poets,
• punsters and word masters too,
• spread the Joomla! love...
• Post your haikus for May!

Joomla! Books

• Bo Astrup reviews "Joomla! 1.5 Top Extensions Cookbook".

Joomla! in the Press/Media

• Mark Bender bring us Joomla! in the Press/Media — May 2011.

On the lighter side...

• Yepr has contributed another Jane Beyond & friends cartoon.

In our next issue
We want to publish your Joomla! story in the next JCM issue! So take a look at our Author Resources content to get a better idea of what we are looking for, and then register to become a JCM author and submit your Joomla! story!







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