The next few days are going to be a critical period for Plone 3.0 development work.

Hot on the heels of last week's Plone 3.0 Alpha 2 release comes the Baarn UI Sprint 2007.  An all-star team of 25 Plonistas has gathered in Baarn, Netherlands for a four-day sprint to polish up the user interface for the forthcoming final release of Plone 3.0.

Limi reports that first day progress was good.  They've got a pretty impressive list of tasks laid out and teams of folks assigned to each major task area.  If you're interested in following their progress up-close you can check out the ticket tracker for the UI sprint.

It's great to see UI issues getting this kind of intensive attention from such a large and talented team of programmers and designers.  It's also great to see sprints happening in conjunction with the Plone release calendar.  I'm really excited to see what emerges over the next few days.