• front page of website should feature 8 prominently
• prepare a press release with the Foundation
• have a really great announcement to give to the world about all the benefits of Wicket 8

Not blocking but really important:

• have a story to answer "Why not just use XXX.js?"
• have a story to answer "Isn't Java Server Side frameworks dead?"
• have a story to answer "Isn't Java dead"

Other things to consider:

• prepare some articles to publish to dzone, voxxed, etc...