Open Source communities are awesome ...

As some of you are aware, I'm currently living in Nelson, NZ. We've been moving quite often in our quest to find a long term furnished rental (which was surprisingly difficult and cumbersome in a small town). We did manage to find a pretty good place in Telecom NZ, worthy recipients indeed of the Supreme Ass awards, could not switch on broadband at the new place till later this week. This left me in a major quandary since we do need to fix quite a few issues and get CiviCRM v1.7 out of the door by the end of the month. I was in touch with Paul Roper from Nelson who I met in the New Zealand group at groups.drupal.org. Paul is a tutor at NMIT. I sent him a panic email regarding the situation and he managed to convince folks at NMIT to give me access for a few days. I'm amazed and pleased at the reach and spirit of the community :) Thanx Paul...