Dear Samuel, Patricia and Peter, Thank you so much for you kind words, which mean a lot to me. First off, I want to let you know that I am looking for a way to create a special group page for regulars like you, who participate frequently on NewsTrust, so that you may continue to share news with each other, even after we close down the consumer site. I cannot guarantee that this will be possible, but I will do the best that I can to recommend this solution to the organization that will be managing the educations service. Stay tuned for more on this in coming weeks. I am so glad that you got as much out of this experiment as we did, and I am really grateful for all that you did to make it so interesting. I really enjoyed working with you all and hope we'll get a chance to collaborate again in the future. Letting go of NewsTrust was a tough decision, but I think it was the right thing to do. I can have more impact at Wikimedia, building on the lessons we learned together. And we have found a good home for NewsTrust's educational service, so that work can continue under new management. Stay tuned for next month's announcement. It's been a wonderful adventure and I am so glad it gave us a chance to work together. We all learned a lot throughout this experiment and I am really proud of all that we have accomplished with this experiment. To be continued. Regards as ever, Fabrice

Hi Sebastian, thanks for your interest in our new open source release. The SocialNews code is nearly identical to our NewsTrust.net site, which is essentially our "live demo". Please contact us at feedback-at-newstrust-dot-net if you have any further questions or are planning to use any of this code. If you are serious about deploying an app based on this code, we may be able to give you access to a password-protected test site we make available to our paying partners.