Dear Grace Supporters At long last, the Grace project team is delighted to announce that we have released the Grace Language Specification Draft Version 0.7.0 for public comment. This specification is still very much a draft. We expect the specification itself, and the langauge described by the specification, to continue to change. Indeed, we hope that this evolution will be driven by the comments on this and subsequent drafts. You can help a variety of ways: * Reading the specification and sending comments back to us (there's an email list a grace-spec@ecs.vuw.ac.nz, although sending it to anyone on the team is fine). * If you've the time and inclination to engage more, you can sign up to that list and contribute to the discussion. * If you've more time, you could try one of the implementations on the web or downloading --- although these are all prototypes and do not (yet) conform to the whole specification: that's why we're mostly interested in comments on the specification at this stage. * If you've more time, and a progrmmaing language or IDE tool, we think this specification is now stable and complete enough that you could try to implement it. Finally, we have organised a workshop at ECOOP in Rome to discuss Grace's design, hear people's experiences (including with other languages that are related to Grace) and to plan the next steps. See http://2016.ecoop.org/track/GRACE-2016 We are accepting proposals for presentations from now until Tuesday 5 July. If you're interested, drop us an email. regards James and Kim and Andrew