Ok. I'm in the final stages of the technology part of go-live preparations. Essentially, this means that I've almost completed the move to the new ISP (I've tested and I now have to pick a point at which to switch over), and have done most of the basic updates to the site.

There are a few updates that I'm working on for the front page, but unless I hear otherwise, those are non-essential for go-live.

I'll expect that I'll send two mass emails to contributors in the next day or so. One will notify of the intention to go-live with a specified hard-date and two will be a "last-call" for articles for go-live. I'll be turning off auto-publishing to the front page. This means that posts will not automatically show up on the front-page news for the site. If you have a post or an article that should be front-page news, you must manually request this in the post. To do so, when entering your posts (blog posts only), click on the advanced options tab, look for "Publish to site's aggregate list" and make sure that it is marked "yes". I'm leaving everyone unmoderated for this syndication, i.e. contributors can choose what they want posted to the front-page news. Note that your blogs are now public-facing (unless I haven't contacted you) and that your posts will show up in your blogs and on the corresponding RSS feeds.

For everyone that is here and contributing during the incubation period, I want to express my thanks. I've put in a lot of hard work to make this site what it is. But many others have put in considerable amounts of time to help as well. Others have worked hard to build their F# skills and have written articles, posts or otherwise. All of this work that has been done by everyone here deserves my thanks for making this site what it is. We are starting small, but we have a very good core team of people to move this forward. Thanks to everyone for their efforts.