Dear Grace Supporters We're now planning the next Grace workshop(s) in Portland Oregon in conjunction with the SPLASH conference. Based on the successful ECOOP workshops, at this stage we're thinking of holding: * a BOF on Monday Oct 24 in the evening -- after the Educators' Symposium, the Dynamic Languages' Symposium, PLOP, and the workshops (including Plateau & FOOL) which are on Sunday and Monday. All three of us will be there for a general report-back on the project to date. * a Design Workshop on Friday Oct 28th (the day after the conference) working over open questions in the design in detail (probably the module & type systems). This will be held at Portland State University, an easy tram ride from the conference venue & hotels. We expect some people would stay only for the morning, others til mid-afternoon. We'd love to see as many of you as possible at the BOF and at design workshop. If you're able to come, please let us know by emailing James, kjx@ecs.vuw.ac.nz, so we have some idea who's coming. Alterantively, if there is are reasons why the proposed dates don't work --- but other dates might --- again let us know! Andrew & James will be around for all SPLASH, so we'll also be able to catch up then. We'll probably arrange to go out for dinner on the Thursday evening after the conference (before the Friday workshop), and we can probably organise another BOF during the conference if many people can attend neither Monday nor Friday. We look forward to catching up with everyone at SPLASH/OOPSLA this year, and hope may of you will be able to come to the BOF and the workshop. cheers Andrew & Kim & James