Dear all, welcome in 2018! 2017 was a quiet year on this list: only 2 messages. That was because three things I started did not yet get finished. Here is a current status: 1. Since today, RQC for conferences supports a second manuscript handling system: HotCRP. 2. A few days ago, user number 1 of RQC, the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) came back to use RQC again in their 2018 instance. 3. I will start a second round of marketing this month and again query all ACM conferences using EasyChair and this time also all those using HotCRP. 4. I have also now started implementing the much more important part of RQC: for journals. More on this next time. With kind regards, Lutz Prechelt Prof. Dr. Lutz Prechelt; prechelt@inf.fu-berlin.de Institut f. Informatik; Freie Universitaet Berlin Takustr. 9, R.014; 14195 Berlin; Germany +49 30 838 75115; http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/w/SE/