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

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[Mntsnow]

whooohooo  Sounds great and Kudo's to everyone that has a hand in this!

[Jason Judge]

You *will* be forgiven for running late, so don't fear making announcements like this. The fact that you have a plan, and have been executing it successfuly, is very reassuring.

Thankyou for keeping us lurkers informed

And thankyou (and those nameless contributors) for the hard work you are putting into this effort to get the project back on track to a rewarding future.

-- Jason