Re: Review neded! Debian Birthday announcement to be sent out really soon... Sorry.
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:25:16PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
> Uhm... I know, it's quite a short hand notice, by suddenly Debian's
> Birthday is coming up, and we should send a small announcement about
> that out. I drafted something really quick, probably in en_DE with to
> many exclamation marks. So please, please, please, take a look at
> svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/publicity/announcements/en/2011/2011-08-16-debian-birthday.txt
> and see, if you can somehow repair it. We should really send it out
> tomorrow morning, so I fear we don't have much time left.
Attached patch un-DEs it and generally tidies up.
You should probably warn the folks at http://thanks.debian.net that you're
going to publicise the site, because it currently has all last year's
material displayed (including "Even though submitting thank-you messages is
now closed [...]".
(if Justin is around I'm sure he'll find bugs in my en_GB though, so take
it with a pinch of salt)
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Jonathan Wiltshire jmw@debian.org
Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw
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Debian Community celebrates its 18th birthday
The Debian Project is pleased to mark the 18th anniversary of Ian Murdoch's
<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development/msg/a32d4e2ef3bcdcc6";>founding announcement</a>.
Quoting from the <a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-intro.en.html";>official project history</a>: "The Debian Project was
officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th, 1993. At that time,
the whole concept of a 'distribution' of Linux was new. Ian intended
Debian to be a distribution which would be made openly, in the spirit
of Linux and GNU."
A lot has happened to the project and its community in the past eighteen
years. There have been 11 releases - most recently <a href="$(HOME)News/2011/20110205a">
Debian 6.0 "Squeeze"</a> in February 2011 - and a huge amount of pre-packaged free software. The
current <q>unstable</q> branch consists of over 35,000 binary packages
for the AMD64 architecture alone - over 44GB of Free/Libre Software!
Throughout this history Debian has maintained its goals of technical excellence,
accountability, and above all freedom.
Of course that wouldn't be possible without the strong community which has
developed around Debian. Beside more than 1,000 Debian Developers and
Maintainers from all over the globe, there are in excess of 11,000 registered accounts for
the <a href="http://alioth.debian.org/";>Alioth collaboration plattform</a>, and that
doesn't even include all contributors of translations, bug reports (and
sometimes accompanying patches) and all those users helping others via our
mailing lists, forums and IRC channels.
As a project, we would also like to use this opportunity to thank all
users, contributors and of course also our upstream developers. All of
them help making Debian to great experience and great project!
Across the world today, Debian Developers, Maintainers, Contributors and Users
<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay2011";>celebrate our birthday</a>
with small conferences, virtual parties, and even
with parties in real life. This celebration is organised by the
community, and it's not to late to start a party in your own city!
Users can also use the web platform at http://thanks.debian.net to
express their thanks, and share pictures of their own Debian birthday
celebrations. If you post on Twitter or Identi.ca please use the hashtag #thxdebian.
The Debian Project continues to welcome contributions in all forms,
from users to developers, encouraging people to download, use, modify,
and distribute its source code in the hope that it is useful.
Index: 2011-08-16-debian-birthday.txt
===================================================================
--- 2011-08-16-debian-birthday.txt (revision 2590)
+++ 2011-08-16-debian-birthday.txt (working copy)
@@ -1,43 +1,43 @@
Debian Community celebrates its 18th birthday
-The Debian Project is pleased to mark the 18th anniversary of its start, an
-important birthday marking the maturity in many cultures.
-As the <a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-intro.en.html";>official project history states</a>: "The Debian Project was
+The Debian Project is pleased to mark the 18th anniversary of Ian Murdoch's
+<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development/msg/a32d4e2ef3bcdcc6";>founding announcement</a>.
+Quoting from the <a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-intro.en.html";>official project history</a>: "The Debian Project was
officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th, 1993. At that time,
the whole concept of a 'distribution' of Linux was new. Ian intended
Debian to be a distribution which would be made openly, in the spirit
-of Linux and GNU".
+of Linux and GNU."
-A lot has happened to the project and its community in the last eighteen
-years. 11 releases, the <a href="$(HOME)News/2011/20110205a">last one just
-bad in February</a>, and a huge ammount of packaged, free software: The
-current <q>unstable</q> branch currently holds over 35'000 binary packages
-for the 64-Bit PCs, that are over 44GB Free Software, and that's only one
-architecture!
+A lot has happened to the project and its community in the past eighteen
+years. There have been 11 releases - most recently <a href="$(HOME)News/2011/20110205a">
+Debian 6.0 "Squeeze"</a> in February 2011 - and a huge amount of pre-packaged free software. The
+current <q>unstable</q> branch consists of over 35,000 binary packages
+for the AMD64 architecture alone - over 44GB of Free/Libre Software!
+Throughout this history Debian has maintained its goals of technical excellence,
+accountability, and above all freedom.
Of course that wouldn't be possible without the strong community which has
-developed around Debian. Beside the over over 1000 Debian Developers and
-Maintainers from all over the globe, there over 11'000 registered accounts for Debian <a
-href="http://alioth.debian.org/";>collaboration plattform</a>, and that
+developed around Debian. Beside more than 1,000 Debian Developers and
+Maintainers from all over the globe, there are in excess of 11,000 registered accounts for
+the <a href="http://alioth.debian.org/";>Alioth collaboration plattform</a>, and that
doesn't even include all contributors of translations, bug reports (and
-sometimes patches for them) and all those users helping others via our
-mailing lists, forums and irc channels.
+sometimes accompanying patches) and all those users helping others via our
+mailing lists, forums and IRC channels.
As a project, we would also like to use this opportunity to thank all
users, contributors and of course also our upstream developers. All of
them help making Debian to great experience and great project!
-The Debian Project continues to welcome contributions in all forms,
-from users to developers, encouraging people to download, use, modify,
-and distribute its source code in the hopes that it is useful.
-
-
-Debian Developers, Maintainers, Contributors and Users <a
-href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay2011";>celebrate today</a> all over
-the world, some with small conferences, some with virtual parties, some
-with parties in real life. A true community event, organised by the
+Across the world today, Debian Developers, Maintainers, Contributors and Users
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay2011";>celebrate our birthday</a>
+with small conferences, virtual parties, and even
+with parties in real life. This celebration is organised by the
community, and it's not to late to start a party in your own city!
-Users can also use the web plattform at http://thank-you.debian.net to
+Users can also use the web platform at http://thanks.debian.net to
express their thanks, and share pictures of their own Debian birthday
-celebrations. If you twit / dent please use the hashtag #thxdebian.
+celebrations. If you post on Twitter or Identi.ca please use the hashtag #thxdebian.
+
+The Debian Project continues to welcome contributions in all forms,
+from users to developers, encouraging people to download, use, modify,
+and distribute its source code in the hope that it is useful.
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