Hello all,

    During the last three weeks, the OCamlCore.org Team has been working to set 
    up a forge for the OCaml community. A forge is a set of services for software 
    projects, including version control systems (CVS, SVN, ...), mailing lists, download
    areas, bug tracking systems, ... Well known examples are sourceforge.net,
    GNA, and Savannah.  The forge for the OCaml community will be specifically
    aimed at hosting software projects related to the OCaml programming
    language.

    The new site is almost ready for the release. However, before open it to everybody,
    we would like to gather a group of people from the community to beta-test the site.

    In particula, we are therefore looking for people which:
    * have a small experience with other forge
    * have an OCaml project to start (or to migrate from somewhere else)
    * are willing to collaborate with us to find out problems in the forge setup

    Of course, this being a test period, we are not yet willing to give
    guarantees of any kind, but we do have backups :-)

    So if you want to participate to the beta test of forge.ocamlcore.org,
    sign-up for an account on <http://forge.ocamlcore.org>.

    Then submit a project, stating into "Objectifs et description du projet"
    that "Project will belong to the beta test of forge.ocamlcore.org". This is
    for records and help us to be sure that project submitter is aware of the
    "beta" status of the forge.  For the moment we are *not* going to accept
    projects which do not explicitly acknowledge the beta testing status of the
    forge.

    Regards,
    the OCamlCore.org Team.
    (Sylvain Le Gall, Romain Beauxis, Stefano Zacchiroli, Pietro Abate)