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Trekkie101:
Its been a while and there hasn't been much of an update to the newsletter and no new releases but I'd like to assure you all that everything has majorly sped up around Simple Machines. Exams and work have taken a toll on most of our team lately but thats close to the end and everyones starting to come back at full speed and later on I shall talk about some of the new developments.

Get to know the team is nearing completion, and with nearly all volunteer's exausted we'd like to know what you want to see next, within reason ofcourse :P

You know those little bots that crawl the net with the bugging attitude of registering and posting as many junk links as they can? Well they've really started to make an advance on SMF communitys and to counter it we now have a captcha system. You may be thinking its taken a while to come to existance but we took it a step further and have an audio version to make sure we never compromise on accessability, it just isn't something we are prepared to do. Not everyone likes captcha, so in the admin panel you can turn it off.

Many cultures use SMF, and with that many languages are needed and we're happy to say that we support 31 languages, now in UTF-8 format. We ofcourse would love to expand so if you know a language we don't have and are willing to translate for us, please do tell us :)

Theres a small group of beta testers who are on the edge of their seat with burning news thats coming very soon, too big for this newsletter ;) so keep watching SimpleMachines to see whats under wraps. RC3 is almost ready to make an appearance to the public. RC3 will be the last RC before 1.1 Final. Since its often requested for a release date, I can now say as long as their are now major problems it's due out within the month.

TinyPortal has had an issue with its shoutbox, with its big user base it usually appears as though SMF has been hacked, we assure you it is not an SMF issue, and their is now a patch for TinyPortal available to fix this issue.

Server Problems, it really hasn't been our best month for server reliability, again it's not an SMF issue but rather a server configuration problem that we have been experiencing, we are stedily getting to the end of the problems and we are sorry for the problems it causes.

To be finished, checked, proof read and all that jazz later.

Compuart:
Wohoo, a new newsletter :D

Maybe a nice addition would be a link to an interview with a few team members.

Also it would be nice to add something about the internationalization. Something like

As of 1.1 RC3 Simple Machine Forum will have full support of UTF-8, the character set containing almost all characters known to exist. Anticipating the release of 1.1 RC3, we have converted simplemachines.org to UTF-8 and added all downloadable languages to a dropdown menu on the upper right corner of the default theme.

Amacythe:
Its been a while and there hasn't been much of an update to the newsletter and no new releases but I'd like to assure you all that everything has sped up around Simple Machines. Exams and work have taken a toll on most of our team lately but thats close to the end and everyone's starting to come back to full speed.

Get to know the team is nearing completion, and with nearly all volunteer's exausted we'd like to know what you want to see next, within reason of course :P

You know those little bots that crawl the net with the bugging attitude of registering and posting as many junk links as they can? Well they've really started to make an advance on SMF communities.  To counter it we now have a CAPTCHA system. You may be thinking its taken a while to come to existance, but we took it a step further and have an audio version to make sure we never compromise on accessability.  Not everyone likes captcha, so there is an option in the admin control panel which allows you to turn it off.

Many cultures use SMF, and with that many languages are needed and we're happy to say that we support 31 languages and will be adding number 32 shortly.  As of 1.1 RC3 Simple Machine Forum will have full support of UTF-8, the character set containing almost all characters known to exist. Anticipating the release of 1.1 RC3, we have converted simplemachines.org to UTF-8 and added all downloadable languages to a dropdown menu on the upper right corner of the default theme.  We of course would love to expand so if you know a language we don't have and are willing to translate for us, please do tell us :)

There's a small group of beta testers who are on the edge of their seat with burning news thats coming very soon, too big for this newsletter ;) so keep watching SimpleMachines to see whats under wraps. RC3 is almost ready to make an appearance to the public. RC3 is expected to be the last RC before 1.1 Final. Since its often requested for a release date, I can now say as long as there are no major problems, RC3 should be out within the month.

TinyPortal has had an issue with its shoutbox, with its big user base it usually appears as though SMF has been hacked, we assure you it is not an SMF issue, and their is now a patch for TinyPortal available to fix this issue. Add a link.

Server Problems.  It really hasn't been our best month for server reliability, again it's not an SMF issue but rather a server configuration problem that we have been experiencing, we are steadily getting to the end of the problems and we are sorry for the problems it causes.  Although we are proud to say we've grown more than we expected to when we got our new main server last November, that is no excuse.  We have attempted to plan ahead for even more growth and use that information to replace our main server very soon.

Proofed while still half asleep and added a few additional comments not including those Compuart suggested.

Dannii:
CAPTCHA is an acronym, so it should be capitalised.

Looks good. some more detail would be better, and more links.

Grudge:
I think the language needs cleaning up a bit (In particular the use of ofcourse) but sounds good.

EDIT: Looks like Amy may of cleaned it up :)

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