[sakai2-tcc] 2.8.2 release announcement - draft

[Steve Swinsburg]

Ok I've cut it down to:
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On behalf of the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) Technical Coordination Committee, I am pleased to announce the release of the Sakai CLE, version 2.8.2.
 
The Sakai CLE 2.8.2 is a maintenance release and builds on previous releases by refining and stabilizing the 2.x feature set. 

A full list of features can be found in the release documentation https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/xQl6B
 
Obtaining the 2.8.2 release
·         Release artifacts are available at http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/
·         Release documentation including install guides is available at https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/xQl6B
 
Licensing
Sakai 2.8.2 is licensed under the Educational  Community License, version 2.0.
 
Older Releases
With the release of the Sakai 2.8 series, official Community support for Sakai 2.6 ceases. Organizations running Sakai 2.6 (or earlier versions) are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest versions of Sakai 2.7 or 2.8 in order to take advantage of continued maintenance support.
 
Our thanks go out to the dedicated Sakai Community volunteers from around the world for their tireless work on this release.

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On 10 Jun 2012, at 09:51, Seth Theriault wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Steve Swinsburg
> <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Planning to send this out probably today sometime. Regurgitated the 2.8.0 announcement and updated slightly.
>> 
>> Please send any edits.
> 
> I wouldn't reiterate the entire 2.8.0 announcement but rather say:
> 
> - 2.8.2 is a patch/stability release for the 2.8 series
> - Notable fixes/changes
> - Point to the Confluence page
> 
> Here's a link to an old announcement for the 2.6.3 and 2.7.1 releases
> as an  example:
> 
> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/announcements/2010-September/000270.html
> 
> Seth