CHIUW keynote, Chapel 1.17 release notes, 1.17.1 release

[Brad C. <br...@cr...>]

Hi Chapel Community --

Three quick announcements today:

1) We're very excited to have Kathy Yelick (NERSC, UC Berkeley) as our
    CHIUW 2018 keynote speaker this year.  Her talk is entitled "Why
    Languages Matter," and you can read the abstract (along with the rest
    of the CHIUW program) at:

 	https://chapel-lang.org/CHIUW2018.html

    We hope to see many of you there!


2) The release notes for version 1.17 of Chapel are now available on the
    Chapel website, providing an in-depth overview of the major
    improvements in our April release:

 	https://chapel-lang.org/releaseNotes.html


3) This week we released Chapel 1.17.1, a minor release that addresses
    a few issues that showed up too late to be included in 1.17.0.  See the
    CHANGES.md file for details:

 	https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/blob/release/1.17/CHANGES.md


Best wishes,
-Brad