Schema.org has had a busy year. We made 4 major releases<http://schema.org/docs/releases.html> (1.93, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2) including somemajor vocabulary cleanup for 2.0. We introduced a new approach to extensions<http://schema.org/docs/extension.html>, established a new steering group<http://schema.org/docs/about.html> with public discussions and broaderparticipation, and adopted W3C's Community Group platform as a home notonly for the core schema.org group, but for related topical discussions andschema developments in nearby groups. Some of these (bibextend<https://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/>, automotive<https://www.w3.org/community/gao/>) have already begun publishing ashosted schema.org extensions (see bib.schema.org, auto.schema.org). Severalmore are in the pipeline, including medical/health<https://www.w3.org/community/schemed/>, courses<https://www.w3.org/community/schema-course-extend/>, finance<https://www.w3.org/community/fibo/2015/12/04/invitation-to-participation-in-the-fibo-w3c-community-group/>,sports <https://www.w3.org/community/sport-schema/>, tourism<https://www.w3.org/community/tourismdata/>, archival<https://www.w3.org/community/architypes/>, ... and many other proposalsfor schema improvements and additions are under development within the coreschema.org community's GitHub repository.As 2015 draws to a close I want to take a moment from all thesedevelopments to thank *everyone* in this community who has contributed tothe project's growth and success. We have had countless and invaluablebugfixes and small tweaks to definitions and examples, alongside manysubstantial improvements in schema.org's expressivity. Just in the lastyear schema.org acquired terminology for describing (amongst other things)visual artworks, invoices, screening events, movie and video game clips,social media postings, barcodes, data feeds, legal services, geographicservice areas, catalogues of offers, exhibition events, and much more. Inaddition to new properties for these and other categories of thing, we havecontinued to focus on fine-grained integration and consistency. This hasbecome an increasingly important activity as our vocabularies have grown,and will be an essential activity through 2016 as we work to integrateextension ideas from a growing network of collaborating communities.Proposals around better recipe descriptions, on hotels/tourism andaccomodation, on educational courses and events/opening hours are allmaturing fast and will keep us busy as 2016 begins. There are also projectsand proposals bubbling under around describing political entities includingfact checking, and legal documentation, which we'll be hearing more fromsoon, as well as GS1's work on an external extension covering foodpackaging and related topics.Having listed all these vocabulary areas I'd like to close with oneobservation that we haven't made clearly enough over the years: that thereare many other important ways of collaborating on structured data schemasthat go beyond the creation of vocabulary definitions. In particular:examples. Throughout 2016 I hope we can put renewed effort into creating,improving and expanding the examples in our documentation, inacknowledgement that for many publishers, concrete examples are the primaryroute to learning and using schema.org. Examples are also the primarymechanism for showing how to combine different aspects of schema.org in areal world situation, as well as the way we demonstrate how schema.org canwork across different syntaxes (microdata, rdfa, json-ld, ...). As we nowhave at least 8 other schema.org-related W3C community groups it isimportant to consider other kinds of activity beyond vocabulary creation:examples, deeper documentation and case studies, tooling, community eventsand meetups, ...Thanks once more to all those who have been part of the project this year,and welcome to those who have joined the W3C Schema.org Community Groupmore recently. According to the W3C listing<https://www.w3.org/community/groups/> we are now the 7th largest CommunityGroup! And as a reminder, if you find our mailing list<https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-schemaorg/> is too quiet foryou, don't forget to join in over at Github<http://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg> where the vast majority of detailedwork happens.All the best for  2016,cheers,Dan(expecting to get a mountain of vacation message bounces :)--schema.org community group chair