I am pleased to provide you with your July 2009 CollectionSpace project update, which consists entirely of the below news: Our first demonstration release, CollectionSpace 0.1, aka "Hello World," is now available online at www.collectionspace.org/current_release <http://www.collectionspace.org/current_release> . 0.1 allows users to create a new object record, view and edit existing records, and save any changes. While modest in functionality and outward appearance, 'Hello World' and its imminent successor, er, 'Hello Moon', constitute a major milestone for CollectionSpace as we put our systems architecture in place by binding together the user interface, application, and 'services' layers, heretofore developed on parallel tracks. As we move to an active release schedule, you will see more and more features and functions as they are drawn from existing design, functional, or technical specs and implemented/tested/revised within the 'live' software. Note that the the demo will be changing constantly, usually for the better, as we test, respond to input, and revise. In a short amount of time, CollectionSpace will start to behave like the next-generation collections information and management tool that we squinted to envision at the 2008 workshops. And we'll be able to stop talking about layers. As this exciting process unfolds, you will always be able to see where we're at by going to www.collectionspace.org/current_release <http://www.collectionspace.org/current_release> . Using an almost equally exciting Web I technology called Bookmarks, you can even return to this page again and again. But lurking is for weirdos. We welcome and expect your feedback (questions, comments, etc.) via talk@lists.collectionspace.org <mailto:talk@lists.collectionspace.org> or the newly minted release 0.1 feedback page on the wiki. <http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Release+0.1+Feedback> Finally, I want to convey a special thanks to those of you who have been providing us with institutional use cases, offering constructive advice, or gently haranguing us for details about our release schedule. Your investments of time and effort into CollectionSpace are both valuable an immensely appreciated. Cheers, Carl Carl Goodman Senior Deputy Director, Museum of the Moving Image (www.movingimage.us) Principal Investigator, CollectionSpace (www.collectionspace.org)