🏒 Lucian Marin
Elementary OS 0.3 "Freya" was released. There's also a new site at elementary.io for your viewing pleasure. It might end up being better than Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid). That will bring some positive motivation for Elementary team.
Tyler Deitz
They just reached their first payment goal on Patreon: "monthly budget for BountySource" (patreon.com/elemen...). I don't think I've seen a distro try out Patreon yet, interesting.