I'm proud to announce that as of June 8th, 2006, Advokit 1.0 is ready to help your campaign. It took a lot longer to get to the point of having something that I felt comfortable labeling "1.0" than I expected. Since we began talking about releasing 1.0 about three months ago, there have been some 160 revisions made to the code base. And though there remain a few things in the Advokit application that I want to improve in the 1.0.x version, we will soon be able to start thinking about what's next!

A couple people I'd like to single out for big thank-you's:

• David Donachie - You started asking lots of questions and throwing code at me, giving me no choice but to get back into Advokit after more than a year away from it. You haven't stopped - and I'm very grateful!
• Dan Robinson - My original Advokit amigo! This wouldn't have happened without you the first time around, and you have been incredibly supportive when I needed it the most as I slogged towards 1.0. With Fen, and with Henri's support at CivicActions, you set up all the new infrastructure for supporting this as an open source project. I can't thank you guys enough.

-Pat