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Since we’re almost nearing the weekend, we thought we’d give you guys a little heads-up on the things we’re currently doing.

As you may have recalled from several days ago, we’ve asked for your voice in the most literal sense of the word for our new (series of) screencasts that we’re planning on doing.

We’re pleased to say that a lot of you guys out there have been sending in your voice samples, and to our great surprise, it wasn’t just guys who were sending in their voices :D. More on that later though, and for now, we’d like to again take the opportunity to thank you all.

Among those submissions, we’ve also received one from Ryan Bates which you may already know from his excellent Railscasts website. Greatly impressed by the quality of his previous work, we’re pleased to announce that Ryan Bates has agreed on doing the first ‘official’ screencast on Passenger. This screencast will be based on the latest beta that we’ve provided him with: don’t even bother asking him to leak it though, as he has assured us that such attempts will be in vain ;-).

But what about all those submitted voice samples? Well, we’re currently planning on doing a demo reel on Phusion as a company as well, and needless to say, we’re going to need a voice over for this as well.

It is for this reason that we’ve decided to take the people who’ve submitted their voice samples into consideration for this, since you all sounded more than suitable for this. Needless to say, this is only possible if you’re willing to do this, and we’ll be sure to contact you guys on this soon. Due to our busy schedules however, we may not be able to contact each and every one of you, and we ask for your understanding on this.

Whichever the case may be, we will however be crediting each and everyone of you on the Passenger screencast site.

Regarding the demo reel, we’re currently in talks with several video production companies and individuals for helping us create this, and we’ll probably be able to share some more information on this with you guys soon.

Concerning Passenger, we’ve decided to increase our sample space by accepting some additional large Ruby on Rails hosts for beta testing, in the hopes of being able to release it to the public even sooner. If you’re attending Railsconf like we’re planning on doing, then you’ll probably be able to ask them about their findings on Passenger as well

Also, you may have read our article on the performance of Passenger compared to other popular solutions out there. However, we haven’t touched the subject of stability/robustness yet, and since Passenger was designed for this as well, we’ve also tested this on the other popular solutions. We’ve been able to infer some interesting results, and we’ll be posting a detailed article on this as soon as we’re done doing administrative work for Phusion.

Lastly, even though we’re getting swamped at Phusion, this shouldn’t stop you from contacting us in case of a question/fanmail ;). We’d be more than happy to receive/answer them

With kind regards we are, your friends at Phusion,
- Hongli Lai
- Ninh Bui