🎄 It's time to recharge and eat cookies 🍪 (Patreon)

Woah, what a year, eh?

I don't know about you, but when I wrote my last end-of-the-year Patreon post, I certainly did not anticipate what 2020 would look like at all. I thought it would be the first time for me to leave this continent on a trip across the Atlantic to attend MRRF with many of you. That maybe I'd make it back to 3D Meetup Sweden. That I'd spend some inspiring days at PyCon.DE again and finally end the year on the insane experience that is the Chaos Communication Congress. Instead it was anxiously monitoring infection rates, hunkering down in mid March (and I haven't stopped hunkering down since either), rarely seeing my family and friends face to face and drowning in work. 

But it also was virtual events & get-togethers like the 3D Drucker Online Lab Night, Akademy, The Meltzone Podcast, VERRF, GitHub Nova and Universe. It was building an awesome testrig that since has powered every OctoPrint release. It was becoming a GitHub Star, winning the first ever GitHub Star Award for Community Growth & getting featured in Hackspace Magazine and on KDE.News. 

It was 6 new stable releases and 10 release candidates, 8 episodes of OctoPrint On Air and 11 Code & Chat live streams (yes, I know, I need to do another one sooner rather than later). It was countless hours of y'all helping each other both on the forums as well as on the Discord server that launched in May. It was still being able to do this full-time thanks to the support of all of you. It was getting a ton of help on OctoPrint from old and new contributors & friends 💕

We can hate on 2020 as much as we want, but there was also a lot of good things that happened this year. And I think this year, more than any one before at least in my lifetime, it is important to reflect on and cherish the good things rather than concentrating on the bad and horrible ones. So that's what I'll do. And sleep and game and binge watch some stuff that I've built up a backlog on. To then return to you in mid-January, refreshed and eager to continue to improve OctoPrint and its ecosystem for all of you 😊

Until then, take care, wear a mask & stay healthy, happy printing and of course Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!

💚,

Gina