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It’s that time again for our monthly tradition where we make donations to an open-source project and a charitable organisation. For March these were selected by Paweł Adamczak.

Since Paweł is the biggest enthusiast of Python and the Django framework on our team (by the way, he gave a Django presentation at a meetup recently), his choice was of course Django. The rest of our team like the idea, as Django has been very useful for a couple of our recent web projects.

Django has been out there since 2005. The first version was developed by programmers at the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper, but since 2008, the project has been maintained by the Django Software Foundation. As always, congratulations to the developers! Thank you for your efforts, and we hope the project continues to be successful!

The other donation this month goes to Human Rights Watch, an organisation that has monitored the protection of human rights worldwide for almost 40 years. Small as our contribution is, we are happy to support HRW in its mission.

With the first half of February already behind us, it is time for us to help others. Just as history repeats itself, February of both this and last year saw Krzysiek Pisera making the choices as to who should receive our aid this month. It seems that Krzysiek also likes to repeat himself, as he has again chosen the Vim editor and the Animal Shelter in ‎Łódź.

According to the will of Vim’s creator, for many years the donations to the editor have gone to the organisation he founded – ICCF Holland, with its mission to help children in Uganda. The organization supports the Children’s Centre in Kibaale, which accommodates 700 children orphaned due to AIDS. We are glad that once again we can contribute to this noble cause.

This is the fourth time that we have shown our support for the Animal Shelter in Łódź. As usual, we give the shelter’s staff, volunteers and animals our best wishes.

At the recent January meetup of our team, Paweł Adamczak had a presentation on Django, his beloved Python web framework. The slides from that presentation are now up on Speaker Deck (and yes, the presentation is about the framework, no matter what the first few slides seem to suggest – classic Paweł).

New year, old tradition – for the first entry in 2016 we would like to present another part of our campaign aimed at financial support for open source projects and organizations engaged in charity work. Dawid Jancen gets to make the first choices this year.

Dawid has decided to select proven solutions, just as he does in his work – his choice is to support the jQuery Foundation, which we have aided twice before, back in 2012 and 2014, along with the Animal Shelter in Tczew, also previously chosen exactly one year ago.

The jQuery Foundation looks after the development of a number of open source projects, mainly the jQuery library itself (which is probably known to everyone interested in web technologies), as well as a number of others, such as QUnit and Esprima. We are always glad to contribute to this initiative, and want to thank all those involved in the Foundation’s activities.

For the past eight years the Animal Shelter in Tczew has been operating as part of the National Society for the Protection of Animals: “OTOZ Animals”. Our assistance is provided for a specific purpose – to rescue a dog called Diego, who was on the verge of exhaustion due to the actions of a heartless and reckless owner. Fortunately Diego is now in good hands and is recovering. We wish him a quick return to health, and thank all the staff and volunteers of the shelter for their work and care for the animals.

Paweł, one of our Warsaw team members, brought us this seasonal gift – a fantastic gingerbread house made by his mom. Thank you!

In preparation for the upcoming holidays, we decided to create a new website project as a seasonal gift for a charitable organisation, like we did last year and two years ago. This year’s project concerned creating a new version of the “Sarcoma” Association website. We are pleased to announce that the new website has been launched today!

Marcin Tabaka and Mariusz Kalota, two reliable developers from our Warsaw team, worked on the project. As always, they did a great job.

The website layout and a new logo were designed by Dominik Grochowicki, a graphic designer that has cooperated with us for many years (thank you so much, Dominik!). Both we and the Association were very satisfied with the results. The new website is clear and user-friendly. We hope that the visitors like the new layout as much as we do.

We should mention that the new website is responsive and can be easily viewed on mobile devices.

We would like to thank the “Sarcoma” Association for efficient and smooth cooperation on the project. We hope that the new website will be useful in the upcoming year of 2016 as well as in the following years.

This is the last edition of the year for our initiative supporting open source projects and people in need. The one who got to select this month’s beneficiaries was Krzysztof Lipiec, a programmer from our Łódź team.

Krzysztof decided that the open source project most deserving of our support is Firebug – a set of developer tools for the Firefox browser. First released in January 2006, and so soon to celebrate its 10th anniversary, it has been actively developed over the years so that today it is one of the most popular browser add-ons used by programmers. Krzysztof and other Web developers on our team can confirm this, as they use Firebug in their work on a regular basis. We would like to take this opportunity to give our best wishes for Firebug’s anniversary, and also to wish its creators good luck with further development of the project.

We are also supporting Children’s Home No. 2 in Łódź, which was founded in 1988 in the district of Bałuty on the outskirts of the city, and which today provides care for more than twenty children. We send our heartfelt greetings to the employees, volunteers and, last but not least, all the children of Children’s Home No. 2.

(By the way, we would like to make a little announcement: although this is the last time this year we are giving financial support for the needy, we plan to carry out a certain charitable project to keep up with the Christmas tradition – we will share more details soon.)

We have just published the slides of Mariusz Kalota’s presentation from our last team meetup. Mariusz did a quick tour of the Laravel web framework, one of the most popular frameworks for PHP, demonstrating its features and capabilities.

Although autumn is here, with its gloomy and rainy weather, we can lift our spirits up thanks to our monthly initiative supporting open source projects and charities. November’s recipients have been selected by Tomek Antosik.

Tomek has decided to support the Symfony Project, his favourite PHP framework for creating web applications. Symfony is one of the oldest frameworks – it dates back to 2005, which means that this year the project celebrates its 10th anniversary. Congratulations to the authors of the project, we hope they enjoy another successful 10 years!

Additionally, we are making a donation to the DKMS Foundation, which has been recruiting potential donors of haematopoietic stem cells and blood marrow in Poland since the beginning of 2009. We send our greetings to the employees and volunteers of the Foundation!