IN THIS ISSUE:

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• 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!.

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

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

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

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

• Yepr has contributed another Jane Beyond & friends cartoon.