- First and foremost, it's always great when community members help compile resources for use by others, and we'd like to acknowledge @rebolek for his excellent compendium of historic automatic builds: https://rebolek.com/builds/ (they weren't available for a hot minute, but now they're back). They can be useful if you're in need of a previous version for a specific project. Of course, you can always go here for Red's daily automated builds. But seeing as how we've a goal of being a self-sustaining, self-selecting group of do-ers, this spirit of providing collective resources is perfectly aligned with the Red-Lang we always want to be.
- From the community, to outreach: thanks to community member @loziniak, Red is now on Stackshare, so be sure to follow us there and chime in. As a repo with 4.1k GitHub stars (and infinite possibilities), Red has a lot to offer the wider community of developers and engineers, and Stackshare is a great place to help compare and contrast us with other languages.
- Now, a challenge! In the coming new year we'll be needing beta testers willing to lend their expertise in refining a new product built with Red. You read that right! If you think you'd like to be one of the contributors to spearhead a move into our next phase, we want YOU! Drop a line to @greggirwin to get in on the ground floor.
- An appreciation to @hiiamboris for his deeply thought out proposal regarding "series evolution," a framework for standardizing and testing the functions we use in Red for manipulating series. Design is hard, and we have a number of initiatives in the works taking a lot of brain power right now.
- Over 60 commits were made to Red's GTK branch in November, making it almost ready for "prime time." The product of a lot of work by a fair handful of the core team, heavy lifter @bitbegin says that merging to master branch is possibly the next step.
- And, to close, a bit of a tease: Watch this space for some snazzy website changes coming soon.
-Lucinda.
