[gimp-web] More text in the anniversary news draft

[Alexandre Prokoudine <aprokoudine src gnome org>]

commit bdd52561aab73391f04d759c4af8050b74813454
Author: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>
Date:   Sun Nov 22 16:45:24 2015 +0300

    More text in the anniversary news draft

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-Title: 20 Years of GIMP (Draft Test)!
-Date: 2015-11-18T16:32:24-05:00
+Title: 20 Years of GIMP, release of GIMP 2.8.16
+Date: 2015-11-22T09:32:24-05:00
 Category: News
-Authors: Pat David
+Authors: Wilber
 Status: draft
 
+This week the GIMP project celebrates its 20th anniversay.
 
 Back in 1995, University of California students, Peter Mattis and Kimball Spencer, were members of the 
eXperimental Computing Facility, a Berkeley campus organization of undergraduate students enthusiastic about 
computers and programming. In June of that year, the two hinted at their intentions to write a free graphical 
image manipulation program as a means of giving back to the Free Software community.. 
 
-On November 21st, 20 years ago today, Peter Mattis [announced the availability][] of the "General Image 
Manipulation Program" on Usenet (later on, the acronym would be redefined to stand for the "GNU Image 
Manipulation Program"). 
-
-[announced the availability]: /about/prehistory.html#november-1995-an-announcement
-
+On November 21st, 20 years ago today, Peter Mattis [announced the 
availability][/about/prehistory.html#november-1995-an-announcement] of the "General Image Manipulation 
Program" on Usenet (later on, the acronym would be redefined to stand for the "GNU Image Manipulation 
Program"). 
 
 <figure>
 <img src='{filename}./images/201512birthday_975.png' alt='Wilber Birthday Strip'/>
 </figure>
 
+Since its public release the project has been evolving in many ways as a testbed for new ideas, which was 
considerably assisted by adding plug-in architecture. Over the years, GIMP amassed a huge amount of new 
features designed for all kinds of users and practical applications: general image editing, retouching and 
color grading, digital painting, graphic design, science imaging etc.
+
+Between 2006 and 2012, the team collaborated with Peter Sikking of _man+machine works_ to define [product 
vision](http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/GIMP_UI_Redesign#product_vision) and improve user experience. Thanks to 
this collaboration GIMP's user interface has become more conventional for professional users, and various 
tools have become more powerful and easy to use. But more importantly, we got a much better idea how to 
design good interfaces.
+
+In the past several years we've been working hard on porting GIMP to a newer image processing engine called 
GEGL. The switch to GEGL made us rewrite or at least tweak pretty much every part of GIMP's source code. 
Fortunately, this work is nearing completion, and you'll soon be able to benefit from all the changes that 
it's bringing.
+
+## New Releases and The Future
+
+To celebrate the 20th anniversary, we released an update of the current stable version of GIMP. Newly 
released [GIMP 2.8.16](/downloads/) features support for layer groups in OpenRaster files, fixes for layer 
groups support in PSD, various user inrterface improvements, OSX build system fixes, translation updates, and 
more changes.
 
-<small>Look at the original feature set?  Some sort of self-deprecating joke (bit-depth? color? only took 20 
years? 3.0 release sometime before 2035?)
+Our immediate future plans are to release first public version in the unstable 2.9.x series that will 
feature fully functional GEGL port, 16/32bit per channel processing, basic OpenEXR support, vastly improved 
color management implementation, new tools, on-canvas preview for many filters, and more. This release will 
encompass over three years of work and become the first milestone towards 2.10.
 
-A look back at this page (https://web.archive.org/web/19970711112615/http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~gimp/ )?
-{{ screenshot: http://static.gimp.org/news/images/1997-GIMP-Berkeley.png }}
-</small>
+Following v2.10 release, we shall complete the GTK+3 port that is required to bring back state of the art 
Wacom support for Windows users. When it's done and GIMP 2.0 is out, we shall finally be able to get started 
on some very exciting and much anticipated features like non-destructive editing. Please refer to 
[Roadmap](http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Roadmap) for more details.
 
 ## New website (SGO)
 
-In conjunction with the 20th anniversary we have updated and revamped the website.
+In conjunction with the 20th anniversary we have updated and revamped the website. Vast majority of the work 
on the new website was done by [Patrick David](http://blog.patdavid.net/).
 
 <figure>
 <img src="{filename}images/1997-GIMP-Berkeley.png" alt="GIMP 1.0 Website" />
@@ -42,14 +47,6 @@ Try it on a mobile device or tablet!
 [News items]: //www.gimp.org/news/
 [full RSS/Atom feeds]: //www.gimp.org/feeds/atom.xml
 
-
-## 2.9 release!
-
-
-## new GEGL release as well
-
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 <figure>
 <img src='{filename}images/birthday2_500.png' alt='Wilber Birthday Snapshot' />
 </figure>