Hi everyone, as we have discussed in our new "agile" workflow model we will have a SeqAn Sprint Report meeting once a month at Freie Universität where all developers give a few slides presentation on what they worked on in that month and how this affects everyone else. This is also useful for people that don't work on the library, but that use the library for application development as they can get an update on what new functionality is coming and they can provide us with feedback as to which use-cases we might have missed and what they would like to see. **The first Sprint Report is next Monday at 15:00 in room K44, Computer Science Institute, Takustraße 9, 14195 Berlin.** We will have Pizza and some beer and non-alcoholic beverages so please let us know if you will come so we can do some planning. **After the Sprint report**, at 17:00 we will leave together and go to a Bar in Kreuzberg, the Clash, to have another drink and celebrate the end of the (working) year, Winter Solstice, Christmas and Svenja's Birthday ;-) You are very invited to come to both events. If you only wish to come to the second part, you can meet us there. Also to everyone else: productive last weeks and a relaxing winter break, Hannes for the SeqAn Core Team -- Hannes Hauswedell Scientific staff & PhD candidate Freie Universität Berlin / Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics address Institut für Informatik Takustraße 9 Room 019 14195 Berlin telephone +49 (0)30 838-75241 fax +49 (0)30 838-75218 e-mail hannes.hauswedell@fu-berlin.de