The JCM Team is proud to present you the February Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine.

This month’s edition features:

• An article about Local Communities by Philip Walton
• Benjamin Trenkle shared an article about the Backward Compatibility plugin
• Daniel Dubois interviewed Sarah Watz
• Serge Billon interviewed Allon Moritz as a developer contributing to Joomla
• A Case Study of Migration from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 5.0 by Robert Fairhead
• Viviana Menzel unleashed the powerful features of the Cassiopeia template
• Anja de Crom published an article about the Value of Open Source Software
• Dan Atrill showed as a glitch became his first core contribution to Joomla
• Anja presented the outcome of Joomla's participation to FOSDEM 2024
• Chris Wilcox published a Case Study of a Joomla website
• Anja reported the outcome of the Joomla User Group leadership meeting
• Serge published an article about the importance of customizing the Joomla backend

This release wouldn't have been possible without the work of the Community Magazine Team, all the authors and all the people who allowed us to interview them.

Thanks to all those who participated.

The Call for Authors for the Community Magazine is always open, we are eager to receive your articles.

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Contributed to this issue:

Luca Marzo (Co-Editor), Anja de Crom (Co-Editor), Sandra Decoux (Creative Director), Louise Hawkins (Creative Director), Daniel Dubois (Author), Benjamin Trenkle (Author), Philip Walton (Author), Dan Atrill (Author), Serge Billon (Author), Viviana Menzel (Author), Chris Wilcox (Author), Robert Fairhead (Author).

We want to thank also all the developers, leaders and volunteers who dedicated their time to answer our interviews.