Just under 1 year ago we graduated our plugins from open-source to commercial. Since this milestone we’ve received an overwhelming amount of support from our customers. In January, we also announced that we’d provide free licenses for approved charities and we’re thrilled to share with you an important achievement - we’ve donated over $25,000 in free charity licenses.

In just the first seven months of 2012 CustomWare is proud to announce we've reached our first milestone ($10,000) toward our goal of giving away $100,000 worth of software licenses to groups supporting worthy causes. The goal is to reach our target (which would mean more than 500 $199 vouchers) by 2014. Since January, we've given more than $12,000 to non-profits that have improved the strength of their Atlassian products by enabling our plugins and connectors to work hard for their organizations. In addition, community license holders have also reached out to CustomWare for discounts on our education services.

We take pride in promoting the efforts of these groups and we look forward to providing similar support to thousands of future causes.

Interested in learning more about our community license program? Follow the three steps below, or visit our guide for non-profits.

Step 1 - Evaluate a Plugin

Go to our web store and evaluate the plugins that you want to use. Add the evaluation license for your plugin to your cart and you'll get a 30 day evaluation key sent to you immediately.

Step 2 - Spread the word

Our popular Reporting Plugin 4.0 for Atlassian Confluence has been released! The Reporting Plugin is one of the most essential Atlassian Plugins, with over 20,000 downloads. The new version is now compatible with Atlassian Confluence 4.0 and 4.1.

We now offer Jam Session training courses. A Jam Session training course is a sharp, one-hour program that allows you to get everyone on the same page. Quickly.

We're excited to release our Community License program. Our plugins and components have been downloaded by ten's of thousands of users and many of these are Not-For-Profit organizations.