The AFS Department at Sine Nomine Associates has created a blog to announce patches and new downloads, and to discuss other issues of interest to the OpenAFS community. Thanks goes out to Mike Meffie for his preliminary work on creation of the blog.

David Boyes, CTO, and Neale Ferguson, Principal Engineer, at Sine Nomine Associates were featured speakers at recent European OpenSolaris on IBM System z conferences.

Sine Nomine Associates has created a set of batch files called Winafsbld designed to help developers build OpenAFS on the Windows platform. A BETA version of the software is available online.

Sine Nomine Associates has announced that a patch to correct an error discovered in the OpenAFS 1.4.10-1.4.11 fileserver which can lead to intermittent fileserver crashes is now available.

Jim Moling from the Financial Management Service of the U.S. Treasury Department presented "Cloning in a Mainframe Environment" at the December 2008 meeting of the Hillgang, a Washington DC based mainframe user group.

Yvonne DeMeritt, a Senior Sustaining Engineer at Computer Associates Inc., presented "CA Products for z/VM – Old Dogs with New Tricks" at the December 2008 meeting of the Hillgang, a Washington DC area mainframe user group.

Richard Lewis of IBM Corporation presented "z/VM Platform Update: Advancing the Art of Virtualization with z/VM Version 5 Release 4" at the December 2008 meeting of the Hillgang, a Washington DC area z/VM user group. Richard has kindly shared his presentation slides for download here.