As we approach the end of another year it is traditional in many cultures to look back and see what has been achieved in that time and to give thanks.

For many of us it is a time to take stock and to acknowledge that we may be more fortunate than others. One way to do this is to donate money to a charity.

Why don't you join me and other users of Joomla!™ to raise funds "all together" for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

I have chosen Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Doctors Without Borders, as they are an international, non-denominational, non-political humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 80 countries.

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Regular readers will have noticed, I hope, that last week I was on holiday and was not online.

Due to changed personal circumstances that no longer means picking up a back pack and travelling to one of the more remote parts of Africa, Asia or Arabia. Instead I would be doing a more traditional sun, sea and swimming vaction on the Greek island of Kos.

I checked before leaving the UK and the hotel had wifi in all areas and I was already  taking my laptop with me to watch some movies.

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Do I really have to leave?

Now if only the wifi worked and I had a solar generator.

This week I am finally on my summer holiday.

Whilst I was travelling home from Joomla!Day Germany I started thinking about how long it was taking me and was the journey worthwhile. The answer was "not that long" and "yes definitely".

Then I started wondering if my journey was amongst the longest and I quickly realised that because I was flying and others even inside Germany were driving then it wasn't.

Can you tell where I'm going with this?

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I've just returned from a very successful Joomla!Day in Germany and had an amzing time.

I will be blogging more about the event and my experience in Germany in the next few days but before I do I should explain what a Joomla!Day is.

A Joomla!Day is something fairly unique to Joomla. Other Open Source projects have global conferences or organise gatherings around generic Open Source events such as LinuxTag. Joomla!Day is different as it is organised on a National or Regional basis.

Joomla!Day is something very close to my heart. I spoke at perhaps the first large gathering in what was then the Mambo Community in Bangkok and a few months later spoke at the first "MamboDay" event in Bonn, Germany, I then organised one of the very first Joomla!Days, in Leeds, UK.

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Some of you may know that I am Jewish and that I have built many web sites for Jewish communities, charities and youth clubs here in the UK.

As in many small communities there is an element of "they have a new web site, why don't we?"

Now I might have claimed to have built many of these Jewish web sites but it's amazing how many are now using Joomla.

I even heard one Rabbi referring it to "Jewmla" assuming that it was software specificaly written for synagogues.

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This is a question that I've pondered for a long time and this is about the fourth time I have sat down to write.

Joomla is rightly very proud of the number of languages that it is available in, there cannot be many Open source projects that offer the same range, almost 60 at the last count.

Yet joomla.org is exclusively in English.

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