[Savannah-hackers] Savannah Hackers Update

[Michael J. Flickinger]

Past Weeks:

Week of September 26th:
* Help wanted position posted in effort to get additional Savannah Hackers.
* Notice posted on front page of www.gnu.org pointing to our Savannah Help 
Wanted item--thanks to RMS and the GNU Webmasters.

Week of October 10th:
* Elfyn McBratney notified me he would be, in his words, "leaving Savannah."  
Hopefully he'll decide at some point to return and assist us once again.

Week of October 17th:
* Up to four new additional Savannah Hackers: Alaska Subedi (asubedi; has full 
front-end privileges; works on project approvals), Jonathan Gonzalez V. 
(zeus; works on project approvals), Justin Ryan (justizin; helping out with 
support requests and hopes to work with us on the backend), and Michael 
Casadevall (sonicmctails; greatly assisting with support requests, the 
Savannah<-->Mailman sync, and other various backend issues).
* Notice removed from www.gnu.org's front page, as, at least now, we have an 
adequate number of  people actively working.
* Support requests and project approvals are finally being processed at a 
decent steady rate.
* We also spent a great deal of time instructing the new qualified volunteers.


Upcoming week:

* Sylvain and Michael Casadevall will continue work on the Savannah to Mailman 
link. 
* Merge and generalize our local Savane changes mainstream so as to allow 
rapid and frequent updates and permit us to cleanly work on Savane-related 
tasks.
* Currently, our main priority is to continue having a prompt and responsive 
service, in regards to support requests and project submissions.


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The Savannah Hackers