Dear Readers,



In this week's newsletter we have three very important updates for you, including a new community channel and an update on the roadmap.



The big news is that starting from today, (right now in fact!) we are introducing a new forum for you! The Cardano Forum



Discourse provides a wealth of useful features which encourages participation, plus giving a much needed structure to conversations and topics. It also features multi language support which will be extended beyond the current Japanese and English soon. You will be able to earn badges for participation, get to know your fellow community members and easily follow the Cardano journey as we grow!



The The Cardano Forum , built on the Discourse platform is our first fully owned channel and will be a place for you to discuss all things Cardano in a forum setting.Discourse provides a wealth of useful features which encourages participation, plus giving a much needed structure to conversations and topics. It also features multi language support which will be extended beyond the current Japanese and English soon. You will be able to earn badges for participation, get to know your fellow community members and easily follow the Cardano journey as we grow!The forum is now open and you can start using it immediately! Click the link below to sign up. Sign up to Forum Please make sure you introduce yourself in the ‘Introduce Yourself’ forum category. Slack > RocketChat As you may be aware, our Slack channel has been closed to new members for a period of time. This was not our decision and was made for us by Slack as they actively discourage the use of their platform for open communities like ours. Slack has now re-enabled invites for the Cardano Community, but invites can only be manually initiated by admins.



As a result of this, we have chosen to start migrating to RocketChat. This will ensure that you, the community, have the best tools available to communicate. Our decision was also made based on the lack of flexibility within Slack to prevent spam Direct Messages.



We are planning on launching our RocketChat community next week…. Keep an eye on your inboxes! Update on the roadmap Development of Cardano has been steadily progressing since the launch of mainnet. More information about the features that are being worked on during the current phase of development, Shelley, will be available by IOHK in the next release of the roadmap on December 1st. The roadmap clock will then be reset to count down to the next information release, which will touch on future development plans beyond Shelley.



Thank you for reading and please do register on the new platforms, we look forward to seeing you there!