Ethan, Lewis and i just had our weekly Wagn meeting. Justin
Lowell-Bellew will be joining us next week. We intend to send out an
updates like this after each meeting, as part of focusing more
attention on the Wagn community (that would be you!).
<http://www.wagn.org/wagn/Community>

1 - Recently we've made a *lot* of progress on performance
(server-side averages down from 2-3 seconds to ~300 milliseconds on
connectipedia.org!). And browser compatibility will be greatly
improved in 0.10.3, bringing IE6, IE7 and Safari up to nearly par with
Firefox (we're also starting to look at Chrome; anyone know how we're
doing in Opera?).

2 - When the three of us were together in Chicago earlier this fall we
got clear that we want to put a lot of attention on Wagneers -- to
grow a community of people who build stuff in Wagn. This remains
important to us, and, we've realized that a good end-user experience
is just as important. So in the near term we will focus on fixing bugs
and polishing up things that will make Wagn smooth and wonderful for
regular users.

3 - By the time we release Wagn 1.0 we certainly want it to be easy
for people to download and install. But for now, we're going to focus
more intently on our hosting and consulting, both to build up our own
Wagneering chops, and to get some income flowing.

So, new draft pricing is up at
<http://www.wagn.org/wagn/Hosting_and_Consulting>. We want to make
sure this works for current and potential Wagneers, so if the prices
seem prohibitive in general, or for you in particular, let us know! We
are open to adjusting the pricing to get the right balance, as well as
to making special deals with people whose work we want to support.

(There will be no rate changes for existing users - we would never do
that without consulting with people first.)

Tangential Tidbit - Justin will be focusing on Wagn now. After he
spent a few months working hard to secure funding for Hooze, we have
made the sad but we think good decision to let Hooze go. We may come
back to a project like that later, but it would be a fresh start.

Life,
John