# About the Announcements category

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/about-the-announcements-category/14>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [April 7, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/about-the-announcements-category/14 "2017-04-07T18:10:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ihnorton/32/9_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ihnorton)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/about-the-announcements-category/14/1 "2017-04-07T18:10:45Z")

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Low-traffic category for 3D Slicer, extension, and community news and announcements.

The Announcements category is intended to be a low-traffic topic for:

- announcement of community events.
- releases or updates of Slicer or extensions.
- announcement of other software that may be of interest to the Slicer community.