My blog has been quiet lately (darn work making me travel!). Let’s see what’s been going on in the world of Foresight:

• Work on the updated Userguide continues. A Foresight-Docs mailing list was created on Google Groups. Japanese translation is almost complete!

• The marketing team has kicked off a discussion about the new Foresight website. What sites do you like? What do you not like? Add your thoughts, and join the discussion.

• Planet Foresight has re-launched, leaving Django behind, and now using Venus, a fork of Planet. Smerp gives an overview of Venus, and how he used rBuilder to create the appliance and how it can be customized. (Anyone out there up for creating a Foresight theme?)

• The first Focus meeting occurred. Focus is a Foresight steering committee. I created a wiki page for it and published the meeting minutes. Congratulations to Eric Lake and Will Farrington, the first to be formally approved through the new process.

• The download page links are fixed. Oops!

• PackageKit errors are much more verbose now. Have you noticed? Fedora interviews Richard Hughes, PackageKit’s maintainer, who gives a nice shout out to Foresight:

  Has their been interest from other distributions about incorporating this?

  RH: Much. PackageKit is shipped by default in Foresight Linux and the GNOME Developer Kit. There’s also interest from Ubuntu, openSUSE, openSolaris, Mandriva, OpenMOKO and a few more that we can’t announce yet.

• There was a marketing meeting this past Wednesday, which I will be publishing the minutes of this weekend. More of a status update, we will be deploying more appliances, including Mercurial, and best of all, a new forum! Jive Software has provided us with a free unlimited license as an open source project, and we’ll also be deploying Crowd to manage single sign on between Jive, JIRA and Confluence. Cross your fingers, we should have it up mid to late February.

Rumor is, an Alpha 3 release should be on the way shortly too.