I missed you guys at Macworld, let's do WWDC! And this time around, we welcome the FCS guys too.

We'll pick an evening -- Wednesday maybe? -- and gather at the regular joint, the Tunnel Top, 601 Bush Street. From the Apple Store just walk up Stockton 5 blocks. (Map)

Please shoot me a message if you think you can come. Expect to pay for your own drinks, but a sponsor may come through yet!

[Update 1: AFP548 has their party on Wednesday, so let's pick another night.]

[Update 2: Looks like TUESDAY is the night. Let's call it for 7:30.]

Sunday marked Xsanity's third birthday. We are up to 814 users (not counting spambots) and 103 blog posts. We'll hit 3,000 forum posts sometime this week.

Particularly interesting for me is this: In March, we had visitors from 91 countries. Thanks to all of you for making us the premiere Xsan resource on the web.

Encouraged by strong member input, I've gone ahead and set up an Xsanity community wiki. I invite you to go and check it out, apply for an account, and add and edit content.

For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, wikis are web site with built-in editing tools. All the site content is available to be modified by the community. Existing pages are easily edited, and new pages are easily created. The goal is that cooperation will produce better quality than individual work. This fits nicely into our experience with the forums and blog.

Our wiki will be for content that changes over time, or that is improved by collaborative work. For example, we've already begun a glossary and a list of Xsan components.

By the way, the wiki is built using the collaboration tools in Apple's Mac OS X Server 10.5. If you haven't checked out a Leopard Server wiki, you are missing one of the best web applications available.

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UPDATE: after a little downtime, the wiki is back up.

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UPDATE 2: please join an interesting discussion of how we may use the new wiki.

Just another day and a half or so, depending on your time zone and my attention span, to submit your Omnigraffles/Visios to our Xsan Setup Diagram competition. We're giving away 5 "really special edition" NAB/Xsanity/Tekserve iPod Shuffles.

To enter, visit our media gallery and choose "Add media" from the popup menu. Please submit only JPGs — a couple of you have submitted PDFs or TIFFs, which show up funny. If you think you sent something in and it is not yet listed, please resubmit a JPEG!

It's been a busy post-NAB week around here. Besides a little more Final Cut Server news leaking out, and the submissions for our new Xsanity Setup Library flowing in, we've set up two new features on Xsanity:

• A new forum for Final Cut Server and Proximity artbox
• A gallery for photos of your sexiest Xsans

Thanks for tuning in!