Dear Grace Supporters This is another brief update on our progress on the Grace project to date. We have been working our way through the language design, and have sketched out "version 0.1" drafts of most of the main operational language constructs. We're starting to think about type and module systems. We are posting these as design notes (Gracenotes :-) to the blog at http://gracelang.org - and we'd really appreciate your comments if you have time to look over the posts there. We have found that blog posts and attached comments make it easier to organise discussions than carrying on conversations on mailing lists. We hope you'll subscribe to the blog, there are RSS feeds for posts - http://gracelang.org/applications/feed/ and comments - http://gracelang.org/applications/comments/feed/ (these are also available at the bottom of the blog page) and, as you have time, to provide comments and feedback. We do want this to be as open a process as possible. If you would like posting rights on the blog, you will need to send black@cs.pdx.edu a username and cleartext password. Finally, we are starting to plan some Grace meetings next year: * UK/Europe late February - around the time of the ECOOP PC meeting * West Coast US late May/early June - meeting aligned with PLDI * Lancaster late July - before or after ECOOP * Portland late October - before or after OOPSLA We are starting to think seriously about the February meeting. If you're likely to be able to make it to that meeting, please let us know - and also if you have any preferences about timing (just before the 25th or after the 26th of February) or location (UK South East vs Europe - most likely Darmstadt) please let us know too. cheers Kim, Andrew & James PS: for detailed design work, we have a second (higher traffic) email list: "grace-core" for the core language design, along with a wiki and svn repository. If you would really like to follow our emerging work-in-progress very closely, then email black@cs.pdx.edu including a username/password pair generated by "htpasswd -n <username of your choice>" and we can grant you access.