Happy New Varnish Year!

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

A quick news-letter from your varnish-coder, on the occation of the
new year:


1. The 3rd Varnish User Group meeting (VUG3)
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VUG3 will take place in Amsterdam on February 14 & 15 2010

Tom-Tom has kindly offered to host the meeting.  If you arrive late
and say "I couldn't find it", you will be mocked.

Sign up at:
	http://varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VUG3

Ask for wiki bit in the IRC channel if you don't have one.

There are only 9 seats left at this point.


2. Varnish 3.0 boiling in the pot
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I won't bore you with how I lost my December, but I'm be working
furiously on finishing Varnish 3.0 so we can tell you all about it
at the VUG3.

Some of you spotted a gzip library being committed during X-mas,
you know what that means.


3. Varnish Moral Licenses
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Funding looks good.  A big THANKYOU to the companies which have
taken out a license.

After five years (see below) I have finally adjusted my hourly rate
to the inflation.  Next thing you know I will update my home-page too.

Follow the status of the Varnish Moral License here:
	http://phk.freebsd.dk/VML/

Also a big thanks for the X-mas gifts from my Amazon wishlist:
	http://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/1XSZNDWXKIAS0

Should I mention my birthday is jan 20 ?  Nahhh... :-)


4. Who put 545k websites on Varnish in December ?
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"Varnish gained 545k hostnames":
	http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/12/01/december-2010-web-server-survey.html

I'd love to hear the story behind that, drop me an email if
you know it.


5. Varnish is five years old about now
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Not that any code had been written at that point but I spent quality
time with blank paper and a sharp pencils during the first months
of 2006 and I'm pleased to say that I had absolutely no idea how
far reaching those doodles would become.

We'll raise a glass to the occasion in Amsterdam.


In the meantime:  May your hitrate be good,

Poul-Henning

-- 
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