I got mentioned in an Ask MetaFilter response as a Habari PMC member, and a useful source of information about Habari. I'm a little giddy about it.

A quote from Owen: …Habari is object-oriented. Habari supports database independence. Habari uses an MVC model to separate templates from logic. Habari supports multiple template engines. Habari has a database schema that was designed for efficiency from day 1. Habari has a different kind of community supporting it, one where people who show the ability, willingness, …

Today is the big day. HabariCon 2008 is happening in a few hours (I should get to bed!) in at the lovely iPony facility. I'm even giving one of the presentations later this morning. It's very exciting, but I'm quite nervous having never given this sort of presentation before. Mostly I'm looking forward to meeting more…

Habari has a policy that themes and plugins do not include links to designers' and developers' sites. This policy is one that hopes to prevent spam, linkfarm, or other links that make your Habari site an income source for someone else without your approval. However, I feel that one of the major rewards of Open Source …

Habari 0.4 is out, now with (among a lot of other cool stuff) media silos that allow you to easily interact with things like Flickr Fan-freakin-tastic.

Tomorrow is the first official Habari Bug Hunt. If you're interested in helping code, test code, write documentation, proof-read documentation or otherwise contributing to the project, stop by #habari on freenode.net on IRC tomorrow and see what's up. If you're interested in learning more about Habari and how or community functions, this would be a great …

There is a lot of discussion happening on the Habari mailing list about the design of the Administration interface. And it's the kind of thing that we're going to have to watch carefully to prevent it from getting ugly. With all the progress we've made, this is one of the first major tests of the strenght …