Well, so much for staying “low-key” with a Ground Control Forum. John Casasanta, the Development Manager at My Dream App and of iClip fame, has let the proverbial “cat out of the bag” by submitting the forum to digg (digg it here). I have “punished” John for this “oversight” (I said in my original email that it was “low-key” for now!) by asking him to contribute to the forums which he has most penitently done. Thanks John!

Now the invitation is open to all to come and check out what’s going on in the Ground Control Forums. It seems that there is still definite interest to keep GC alive by some of the Mac programming community with some pretty impressive coding chops. What becomes of all this is still up in the air, but the GC Forum is the best place to stay on top of all things GC and help contribute to the ongoing development of Ground Control.

I was originally planning on inviting only a select few, so that we could bat around the issues of continuing development of GC apart from MDA and then after getting enough feedback, gauge the interest and decide whether to make a public announcement or not. Well, that process has been “slightly” accelerated thanks to John. In light of that, please go easy on the design of the site as I was also planning on using this period to tweak and fine-tune little things here and there. I am open to feedback, so feel free to come in and post any suggestions for improvement on the forums, and I’ll try to keep tweaking it as we go.

I will be posting major GC news updates to this blog for the RSS blast, so definitely keep the RSS feed bookmarked. Also, I will still be contributing to the MDA forums as development on the three winners proceeds. So I look forward to seeing what all comes together over the course of the next several months.

Long live Ground Control!