Regarding AWN, the project is very much alive. There’s currently no release date set for 0.4, but there’s been some changes for what will become 0.4 in the rewrite branch on launchpad (https://code.launchpad.net/~awn-core/awn/trunk-rewrite-and-random-breakage). Awn-extras has also had a fair share of updates lately, including a few new applets.

If you have any questions, stop by in #awn on irc.freenode.net. Almost all of the developers are around at some time or another.

You seem to be one of the only folks on planet-awn who posts now days. Can you tell us what the status is with the project? I thought there was supposed to be a 0.4 release at some point in the semi-near future, but it seems like no one is working on it? Is the launchpad page just misleading??