Newsletter for November 2nd, 2010 - "MegaLetter"

1. Newsletter Editorial - NANY 2011: The Home Stretch

Despite my intention to get us back onto a schedule of sending out a DC newsletter every two weeks, it's actually been over 6 weeks since the last newsletter.  For that I apologize, and pledge to do better going forward.  Grab yourself a soda and settle in for a super-sized newsletter, it's the biggest newsletter we've had in years.

So, let's talk about the big event taking place on the website: NANY 2011.  For those who aren't acquainted with it yet, NANY is an acronym for "New Apps for the New Year", and it's where we invite every coder who hangs out at the DonationCoder forum to release some brand new freeware/donationware to the public on the first of the year.  It's a non-competitive event, in which coders of all skill levels are invited to submit something, and in which everyone who enters wins a rare and infinitely invaluable DonationCoder coffee mug starring our cute mascot Cody the bird.

In many ways NANY represents the best of DonationCoder -- it brings together professional coders with amateur dabblers and a large community of users filled with encouragement, ideas and feature requests.  And it's just plain fun for everyone.  But as we enter the final two months of the challenge, we need your help!  We don't have an advertising budget and we suck at self-promotion.  So we rely on people like you to help spread the word.  Please tell your friends about the NANY event; if you have a blog or a website, please tell your readers -- especially if any of them might be coders.  Don't just sit there -- the more coders we have participating the better!