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We're thrilled to announce that we've hit a new milestone - through our Starter License program we have sold $250,000 worth of licenses, with all proceeds benefiting Room to Read!

If you haven't already heard, the Starter License program offers most of our software for small teams for $10. No strings attached.

Watch Room to Read's founder, John Wood, talk about their mission and how we're helping bring education to thousands of children in developing nations:

It's thanks to all of you that we've been able to reach this milestone! Help us donate another $250k to Room to Read (and get some awesome software for your team). Learn more about the Starter Licenses.

Atlassian is committed to helping charities throughout the world. Learn more about the Atlassian Foundation here.

As those of us in the San Francisco office prepare for a few days off for Thanksgiving (don't fret: support and customer service will still be active), here are a few articles to "chomp on" that our team has been working on over the past couple weeks:

Code Review in Agile Teams. Wojciech is working on a several part series aimed to help you do just that. Read Part One.

Integrate JIRA into Google Wave! Do you have your Google Wave invite yet? If so, this is a post for you. John explains how it's done.

Do you have a thing for mustaches? If so, Matt has been blogging extensively about Atlassian's involvement in "Mo"vember, an annual campaign to raise awareness for men's health issues, here and there.

What do you use to make diagrams? Our partner, Gliffy, makes a great tool to do just that and has also introduced a $10 license. Check it out!

FishEye and Crucible 2.1 Webinar Pete's put up his webinar explaining the new features in FishEye and Crucible. If you're considering either of these products you'll want to watch this.

Finally, if you're using JIRA as a helpdesk, Ken brings us this webinar from our partner VertygoSLA which makes a plugin intended to help you support your SLAs.

Until next time, Gobble Gobble!

Since our last blog roundup, we survived Halloween, have begun Movember and spent a day at the races. We've still been keeping up the hiring campaign and are looking for 16 more rockstars to join the Atlassian family.

Here what's been going on around the Atlassian blogs:

We launched Cash for Clunkers - Confluence Edition! Bill Arconati has all the details about how to get 20% off a new Confluence license or a free 10-user license.

Confluence 3.1 is in beta. Try it out and let us know what you think.

Hey all you agile fans: Kanban support is now available for JIRA with GreenHopper! Nick Muldoon shares the details.

Crucible 2.1 is out the door and Pete Moore share the news.

Finally, if you're looking to create professional documents out of your wiki pages, you've got to check out the Scroll Exporter for Confluence. Awesome Stuff!

Today we're announcing Cash for Clunkers - Confluence Edition. From now until December 11, you can trade in your wiki, team site or any other collaboration clunker in exchange for either a free 10-user Confluence license or 20% off a new Confluence license.

Bill has all the details of this offer in his blog post on the Confluence blog. Check it out!

Last Friday the San Francisco office got dressed up and broke into teams to carve up some pumpkins! So much fun (and we've got the photos to prove it):

Support Engineer, Jonathan Costello is beheaded?!!?1!?

Channel Coordinator, Trisha Hong, plays Alan from the movie "The Hangover"

A beer pumpkin!

Customer Advocate, Sherrie Ladegast, dressed as a geisha


Office Administrator, Rochell Lopez, with Tina as Crulla de Vil


Marketing Monkey, Morgan Friberg, as Carl Fredricksen from the film "Up"

Support Triage Engineer, Marian Finch, is a bunch of grapes

To see a bunch more photos from Atlassian's Halloween festivities, check out these photos on Flickr.