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authors:
  - mwahl
description: "Last week's Pony news, reported this week."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - October 08, 2017"
date: 2017-10-08T21:00:00+02:00
---
_Last Week In Pony_ is a weekly blog post to catch you up on the latest news for the Pony programming language. To learn more about Pony check out [our website](https://ponylang.io), our Twitter account [@ponylang](https://twitter.com/ponylang), or our [Zulip community](https://ponylang.zulipchat.com).

Got something you think should be featured? There's a GitHub issue for that! Add a comment to the [open "Last Week in Pony" issue](https://github.com/ponylang/ponylang.github.io/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Alast-week-in-pony).
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## News and Blog Posts

- Bambang Purnomosidi published [a blog post](https://medium.com/@bpdp/latest-pony-in-arch-linux-dea6427bd77f) about using latest Ponyc on Arch Linux.

## Items of note

- The Pony development sync call from *October 4th 2017* has been recorded and uploaded for you to enjoy. Get the audio [here](https://vimeo.com/915351561) while it is fresh.

- Pony takes part in [Hacktoberfest](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/). So if you'd like to contribute and level up your Hacktoberfest score, we assembled [a neat little package of issues](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=type%3Aissue+label%3Ahacktoberfest+user%3Aponylang) that are perfectly suited for getting started with Pony. Any kind of Contribution is more than welcome!

## RFCs

Interested in making a change, or keeping up with changes to Pony? Check out the [RFC repo](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs). Contributors welcome!
