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From contiki-developers mailing list:

Hi all,

big things are about to happen. Change is coming to Contiki.

As some of you already know, I have together with Fredrik Österlind and
Roger Bergdahl founded a company called Thingsquare (http://thingsquare.com)
to build a business around Contiki and its ecosystem by developing a set of
Contiki-based software products for the emerging marked of connected
devices. We are now working full time on this.

For Contiki, this means changes.

* Contiki will remain open source and thriving. This will not change.

* Contiki has been decaying for some time now. Releases have been far and
few between. Patches have been difficult to get through. It is time for
change: we plan to (finally!) establish a development model for Contiki.
The new model will allow contributions to Contiki to be reviewed, merged,
tested, and committed to the Contiki code at a completely new scale. So
hold your patches for now! A development system is coming.

* Contiki releases have been ad hoc. Wouldn't it be great with a structured
release cycle? We aim to fix this.

* While the technology behind Contiki has been great, marketing has not. We
on this list all know about Contiki, but what about all the others? They
need to know about it too! It is time to ramp up how we communicate Contiki.

Changes are coming - stay tuned!

Best regards,

/adam

PS: we just added a newsletter to the Thingsquare website! Sign up for all
the latest news: http://thingsquare.com/