Salat
 started out as a small project developed by Rose Toomey (@rktoomey) at 
Novus. Over the years, it has grown beyond our original use case and
today - with 2,000 downloads a month and thousands of users - Salat is
 a cornerstone of the Scala / Mongo developer community and instrumental in other projects, such as the Play Framework (via play-salat).
After years of building the Novus platform and open source projects like
 Salat, Rose Toomey recently moved on from Novus to pursue new ventures. This catalyzed discussion among the Novus engineering team 
regarding the future of Salat. We decided that
 we want to make it explicit that Salat belongs to its original creators
 and community of users. For that reason, on
June
 15th, 2015 we are promoting Salat to its own github project under: https://github.com/salat
Novus will continue contributing to Salat and looks forward to increased
 community participation. Our engineers will continue to contribute to 
the project, and Rose will continue to be Project Lead and "Benevolent 
Dictator for Life."
Regards,
Noah Zucker / @noahlz
Novus Partners