<div dir="ltr"><div class="markdown-here-wrapper" style=""><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Hey everyone!</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Just a quick reporting in on the KSP-CKAN cross-platform mod manager for Kerbal Space Program, for which Linux Australia is helping us with infrastructure funding. :)</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important"><strong>tl;wr: We’re bringing lots of joy to space enthusiasts! :)</strong></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">The most recent release of the KSP-CKAN client (17 October) has had 66k downloads, and we’ve had over a million downloads summed over all releases. We’re indexing over two thousand individual mods for Kerbal Space Programme, and over twelve thousand individual mod releases overall.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">While we purposefully don’t track mod downloads to protect user privacy, the sheer number of client downloads and contributions the project is receiving means I can confidently say we’re going very, very strong.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">We’re also extremely fortunate to have picked up some <em>incredible</em> new contributors. An extra special thanks goes to HebaruSan for the best UI improvements ever, which are already in the development version and will be landing with the next release. See the attached images for examples, or <a href="https://github.com/KSP-CKAN/CKAN/pull/2177">this PR</a> for full details. :)</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">I also want to express my enormous gratitude to Myk Dowling for his continuing role as Mission Director, Leon Wright for keeping our infrastructure running, and of course Linux Australia for helping with our infrastructure costs!</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">May you go to space today!</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">🚀 Paul</p>
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