We're shooting for world turtle day, May 23rd. I wanted to see how this last push for beta goes before announcing it to ros-users. 

That sounds like a great idea!

On Tuesday, April 21, 2015, Vincent Rabaud via ros-release <ros-release@lists.ros.org> wrote:
Hi,

I'd love to have a release date for Jade in advance (whenever it can be defined of course, no rush) to organize a release party on the release day: it's a good way to know your local community.
E.g. KDE has been pretty successful at that:
https://community.kde.org/Promo/Events/Release_Parties


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