A Wicket Diary

A lot has happened and still happening in Wicket land this month. Here’s a summary:

• Eelco got married (actually in Februari but who’s counting)
• We spent a great deal of time on an exotic beach in Thailand celebrating that fact
• Wicket in Action is now in production, meaning that Eelco and I are spending our evenings (and part of the night) applying copy editor improvements, indexing and creating production ready images
• Apache Wicket 1.3.2 has been released
• Wicket in Action is the best selling MEAP book for Manning
• Maurice Marrink has joined the Wicket team
• A new Wicket Community Meetup is in the works (April 8th, Amsterdam)
• The next Wicket version will be a quick one: only generics and a migration to Java 5 (at least looking at the vote results so far)

You are invited to the Wicket meetup, and to cast your vote for the (immediate) future of Wicket.

We are announcing a special Wicket community event: on Tuesday April
8th 2008 the next Apache Wicket Community Meetup will be held in
Amsterdam just prior to ApacheCon.

This Meetup will be a low-barrier community driven event and free to
attend, thanks to the generous sponsoring by Hippo and Topicus. With
the Apache Wicket Community Meetup we like to bring together not only
project committers from Apache Wicket but also our community users and
other interested parties.

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