Michael and I have recently formed a nonprofit corporation to manage Orbited and related projects such as js.io. One of the main reasons for the nonprofit is so that contributors can sign a Contributor License Agreement (”CLA”) with an appropriate legal entity. The CLAs will protect users of the open source software projects managed by the nonprofit, and are a good reminder to think about intellectual property.

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Orbited 0.6.0 has been released. See the announcements in the Google group and on Comet Daily. Work is now underway on Orbited 0.7.0, which will add two new features: stream multiplexing and integrated message queue (STOMP) server capabilities.