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authors:
  - seantallen
description: "Last week's Pony news, reported this week."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - September 10, 2017"
date: 2017-09-10T07:11:51-04:00
---
_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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## Items of note

- Yesterday, Sean T. Allen created a starter kit for Pony library projects. The project is available at [https://github.com/ponylang/library-project-starter](https://github.com/ponylang/library-project-starter). Full details on features is available in its USAGE.md.
- Academic papers relating to Pony are back on the website after a long absence. Currently, they live in the [community section](https://www.ponylang.io/community/#papers) of the website.

- Audio from the [September 6, 2017, Pony development sync](https://vimeo.com/915150905) is available for your listening pleasure.

## News and Blog Posts

- [Bambang Purnomosidi](https://twitter.com/bpdp) [announced on Twitter](https://twitter.com/bpdp/status/905653663913218050) that a Pony layer is now available for [SpaceVim](https://spacevim.org/).

## 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!
