Cape Town, South Africa, is about as far away from Salesforce's San Francisco headquarters as you can get. It's also the epicenter of some of the best community collaboration in our ecosystem. At last week's NPSP Day, the work of community leaders and supporters like Sam Vos, Annakie Gammon, Rowen Ravera, Jacquie Besselaar, and Themba Mazibuko (to name only a few) was on display for the world to see, and the result was fantastic. It was the 4th largest NPSP Day, held the most speed-geeks (by double!), and delivered the most ah ha moments I've ever seen.

The South African Salesforce non-profit community is a proud community that on a daily basis is leveraging its internal strength to support its own network. I can't articulate effectively the impact it has already had on my view of what we can do as a community even when we feel quite far from the center of the action. Just as I've learned in all my open source community work, the strength of this open source community isn't only at its center of mass. It's also located in its local network.

While pondering where we can further strengthen local communities that might feel distant from San Francisco, here's your weekly serving of community knowledge...live from the friendly skies back to DC!

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After two overnight flights in a row, at some point, I'll make it down to South Africa for the first NPSP Day on the African continent. I've been lucky enough to speak in Cape Town a few times, but this time, it's special. Bringing together non-profit organizations from across the Western Cape, we'll have a chance as a community to enhance the benefit of Salesforce for groups that are doing powerful work in the region.

Also, Phil (our penguin) is hoping to meet some real penguin buddies at Boulders Beach.

Before you start your week, catch up on all of last week’s greatness with the PUB Crawl. Grab a pretzel (seems to be the choice of snack during my current layover) and dive into this week’s content roundup. Don’t forget to keep your questions, tips, and suggestions rolling into the HUB. You never know, you could end up in next week’s PUB Crawl!

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As many in the NPSP/HEDA world return to their home communities after another successful open source community sprint, it's time to play catch-up on all that knowledge from the Salesforce world last week.

Didn't have time to keep up with all the HUB happenings while you were sprinting open source laps? I've got some awesome posts here in this week's PUB Crawl. Enjoy!

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Out with February, in with March...and soon, but not soon enough, spring up here in the northern hemisphere! March also holds a historic first for our community: the first ever NPSP Day in Africa. I'll be packing up what friends share about the Salesforce.org Open Source Sprint happening today and tomorrow, and bringing the knowledge to the Cape Town community on March 22.

While the community is humming, take a moment to catch up on what's has been discussed around the HUB in this week's action packed PUB Crawl. Grab yourself a sweet treat and dive deep into this week’s content.

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As I pull myself together after celebrating the US men's curling team gold medal run, I've realized that there's been a ton happening in the Salesforce world. But seriously, did you see that comeback? Incredible!

Meanwhile, I thought for a second that I'd aim to break some speed records skiing down this mountain last week, but reason took over really quickly. Après-ski called instead.

If you're coming back to the non-sport world after your Olympic focus, I've got just the right beverage for your needs from the the PUB Crawl bar of knowledge. Enjoy!

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