Topic: Announce - new contribs.org site

[JeffC]

Please forgive the cross-post but we are trying to reach as many people as possible with this announcement.

There have been many questions about the future of the Mitel/e-smith distro and contribs.org.

Since December, we have had a truly international team of volunteers who have put literally hundreds of hours into creating a completely new site for contribs.org.  The new contribs is far more integrated and a single search for a topic will give you results in the Forums, Weblinks, News, and all of the other sections of the site.

We have a new, more polished look and feel and there is a great deal more information on the site as well.  We have almost completed our first language translation for the site documentation (French) and there is a lot more work going on right at this moment.

We will bring the new site live before the end of January and I am very sure that you will see great improvement in all areas.

Another international group of volunteers has been working on building our ISO release!    While we all know it's not a great idea to announce release dates, we feel confident in saying we are no more than a few weeks away from releasing the first community sponsored release of the SME Server.

I know many of you have quite a few questions that haven't been answered but I am hopeful and positive that we will be addressing many of these questions at launch.

Please hang in there with us for just a little while longer and we think you'll be pleased.

Thanks,

-jeff
on behalf of contribs.org

[ryan]

Any chance the name will return to E-Smith Server to reflect it's return to the community?

[JeffC]

ryan wrote:

> Any chance the name will return to E-Smith Server to reflect
> it's return to the community?

No chance at all.  e-smith is a copyrighted name and Mitel is keeping all of their rights to it.

-jeff
on behalf of contribs.org

[tichakal]

sorry to tell something such weird but the new sme logo looks like the windows one : same colors, same locators, ...

it is just a coincidence ? or am i dreaming ?  

http://www.microsoft.com/windows


tichakal, little jackal, chacal pequeño

[Anonymous]

yea - I wonder if microsoft will try sueing because of that logo  

Not sure if some of you have read about the guy who brought a domain called mikerowesoft.com, you can find it on the http://www.theregister.co.uk

hmmm...