Hello Folks
It's been a long drought, but the Rainmeter is coming
Very exciting news for us Raineers.
Rainmeter; once a leader in skinned custom systems monitoring, or as Rainy put it: “Rainmeter is a customizable resource meter that can display various performance data in different formats”, has been placed back into development.
Rainmeter not only has been customized over the years to get information from your system, it has been used to create control interfaces, obtain weather, and depending on how much information you want, yes it can tell you if it is raining. The customization and skinning capabilities are all but endless, and there has been more than one article in the past stating that Rainmeter has never been used to its full potential.
Rainy dropped development some time ago, but with the release of windows Vista and 7, a call went out!
Do to public outcry Rainy opted to place Rainmeter to the Google Code site. Rainy has gathered some volunteer developers, and for the last couple of months they have been programming a storm.
Along with the return of Rainmeter development, a new forum has just been erected in the last few days, and there are forums for help, requests for plug-in development, beta testing forums has been instituted (for those that would like to work with the latest release and post their findings), an area to show off your skins in the screenshots area, and so much more to be done, had, and discussed
To aid in this Rainy has also temporarily reposted the old forum in a read only format, so that new Raineers can access help and support that was offered before the drought began.
There are already constant updates in an alpha/beta, and the latest releases can be monitored and downloaded from the new code site. Latest code changes and update logs can also be monitored at the new code site as well.
We have added an IRC channel for folks to come and ask for help, gather, and discuss Rainmeter.
The forum and IRC is run by volunteers. Rainy is here and lending assistance, but this has become a community of Raineers, for Raineers, and by Raineers.
I call on all folks interested in Rainmeter to come. Come to the new forum, our new home, and help rebuild the Rainmeter community. Help others, get help as needed, and discuss development.
A call for coders has already gone out on a couple of projects, and your help may be needed.
I send this out as the formal invitation to the rebirth of Rainmeter.
Everyone is welcome.
It has been a long drought, but the Rainmeter storm is coming.
Links and information below.
For code site, current release (in 32 & 64 bit), latest release, and change log:
http://code.google.com/p/rainmeter/
The new forum:
http://www.rainmeter.co.cc/index.php
The old forum (read only):
http://www.rainlendar.info/oldforum/phpBB2/
Rainmeter IRC Channel:
irc://irc.freenode.net/rainmeter
Sincerest regards and hopes
SGT. E. V. McKay
