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Happy Holidays from Liferay and our community!  Hope everyone has a safe and fun-filled holiday season.  Liferay had an exciting and fun-filled 2010.  Partner program expansion, new Liferay offices throughout the world, the Liferay 6 release, new documentation, developer tools, magic quadrants, symposiums, the Liferay LIVE program, community development, and tons of events added up to a great year of strengthening our community ties.  We have lots of stuff planned for next year, so here's to a successful 2010, and onward to an even better 2011.  Now, onto the links...

• Everone knows how to do SSO for authentication, but what's more fun is integrating with Liferay's flexibile authorization and permissioning system.  Bert wrote up a nice post in his Liferay Services series on securing your Liferay service using PermissionChecker.
• Juan has done an awesome job revitalizing the French community, reorganizing and categorizing the 500+ threads, and adding new forum categories.  He is actively seeking moderators so if you're interested, contact him.
• We asked you to participate in the 2010 Open Source CMS Market Survey - and you responded en masse to make your voice heard.  Liferay was recognized as the leading open source Java CMS in this year's survey (here too).  Thanks to all that participated!! An even bigger thanks goes to the community developers and users that made this possible!
• The Liferay Roadshow series visited Brazil back in October, and Sea Tecnologia took some video (in Portugese, but still fun to watch even if you don't speak the language).  Great to see our community members connecting in real life.
• Community rank titles have been updated thanks to your input.  You are no longer a Jedi Council Member, now you are a Liferay Legend .
• Work on the community landing page is proceeding, and we hope to have this live by end of January.  The goal is to make this page appear in every community member's bookmark list, and on your daily speed-dial pages to visit (or read via a Feed).  Features include community announcements, links to popular JIRA tickets, community polls, dynamic activity maps, community buzz feeds, release documentation, concentrated developer docs, and other goodies I hope you'll find useful on a daily basis.

Next year promises to be the year of the Liferay platform, and I hope to see continued community involvement. First off will be a series of online Liveray LIVE events (including one concentrating on our community), followed by regular community contests (with excellent prizes), and our worldwide Liferay Symposiums will be back (watch out for a call-for-papers for next year, open to the entire community).  See you out there!