[gimp-web/testing] content: update the 2.10.8 news with some side info around GIMP!

[Jehan <jehanp src gnome org>]

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Author: Jehan <jehan girinstud io>
Date:   Wed Nov 7 17:47:31 2018 +0100

    content: update the 2.10.8 news with some side info around GIMP!

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 [NEWS]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/blob/c6f1196721d9e8d1179a09d91557656895e6086d/NEWS#L11
 [commit history]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/commits/gimp-2-10
 
+# Around GIMP
+## GEGL
+
+Øyvind Kolås has been working on doing [multispectral/hyperspectral processing
+in GEGL](https://www.patreon.com/posts/camayakaa-float-22446330), GIMP
+graphics engine, which happens to be the groundwork for CMYK processing.
+
+This is therefore the first steps for better CMYK support in GIMP!
+So we hope that anyone who wants to see this happening in GIMP will
+support [Øyvind on Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/pippin)!
+
+## GIMP in University
+
+Aryeom, well known around here for being the director of [ZeMarmot
+movie](https://film.zemarmot.net/en/), a skilled illustrator and a
+contributor to GIMP has given graphics course with GIMP as a guest
+teacher for nearly a week at the *Université de Cergy-Pontoise* in
+France, mid-October.
+
+She taught to 2 classes, a computer graphics class and a 3D heritage one,
+focusing respectively on digital illustration for the former and
+retouching for the later.
+
+<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="fr"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Now here is the last day with the 3D 
heritage 🏺 class (<a href="https://twitter.com/AryeomHan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw";>@AryeomHan</a> on the right) of 
<a href="https://twitter.com/UniversiteCergy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw";>@UniversiteCergy</a> <a 
href="https://twitter.com/ucp_lpmn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw";>@ucp_lpmn</a>. They worked on retouching (+ painting 
basics) e.g. old frescos/painting. As last exercise, they digitally saved Mona Lisa from vandalism thanks to 
<a href="https://twitter.com/GIMP_Official?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw";>@GIMP_Official</a> ! ;-) <a 
href="https://t.co/8xJw8BeBWn";>pic.twitter.com/8xJw8BeBWn</a></p>&mdash; ZeMarmot (@zemarmot) <a 
href="https://twitter.com/zemarmot/status/1053584663145525249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw";>20 octobre 
2018</a></blockquote>
+<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"; charset="utf-8"></script>
+
+This is a well-deserved demonstration that GIMP is getting more and more
+recognition as it now gets taught in big schools and universities. Students
+were very happy globally, and I will conclude by quoting a student at
+the end of a 3 day-course: "*I didn't know that GIMP was the Blender for
+2D; now this is one more software in my toolbox!*"
+
+We remind that you can also support [Aryeom's work on
+Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/zemarmot), [on
+Tipeee](https://fr.tipeee.com/zemarmot) or
+[Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/ZeMarmot/).
+
+## Debugging GIMP on macOS
+
+Our macOS contributor, Alex Samorukov, has been very hard at work
+improving the macOS/OSX package, debugging and patching.
+
+As a side note, when Aryeom was teaching with GIMP, one of the 2
+classrooms was on macOS (the other being on Linux), and we discovered 2
+very annoying bugs (docks locking up and glitchs on white parts of
+canvas), which got fixed since then by [Ell](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gegl/issues/104) and
+[Jehan](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/1924).
+
+We remind that we have very few developers for macOS and Windows and we
+welcome any contributors if you want GIMP to be well supported on your
+operating system of choice!
+
+## Flatpak statistics
+
+Though Flathub does not provide (yet) any public statistics for packages,
+some internal source told us that over 214 000 downloads of GIMP were
+made since its existence ([2017/10](https://twitter.com/zemarmot/status/920045077992476673)).
+This is more than 500 downloads a day, and by far the most downloaded flathub application!
+
+Flathub is a new kind of application repository for GNU/Linux, so of
+course these numbers are not at all representative of all downloads.
+In particular, we don't have statistics for Windows and macOS versions.
+Even for Linux, every distribution out there makes its own package of GIMP.
+
+So this is a small share, and yet already a nice one, of the full usage of
+GIMP around the globe!
+
+## GIF is dead! Long live WebP!
+
+The GIF format is the only animated image format which is visible in any
+web browser, making it the de-facto format for basic animation on the
+web, despite terrible quality (256 colors!), binary transparency (no
+partial transparency), and not so good compression.
+
+Well, this may change soon! A few days ago, WebP reached support in all major
+browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera) first,
+when a [2-year old feature request for Mozilla Firefox got closed as
+"FIXED"](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294490).
+
+Therefore we sure hope platforms will take this new format in consideration,
+and that everyone will stop creating GIF images soon now that there are actual
+alternatives in most browser!
+
+And last but not least, we remind that GIMP has already WebP support
+since [GIMP 2.10.0](https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/04/27/gimp-2-10-0-released/)!
+
+Disclaimer: the GIMP team is neutral towards formats. We are aware of
+other animated image formats, such as APNG or MNG, and wish them all the
+best as well!
+
+# Conclusion
+
+This is a small release, yet a very eventful time!
+
 We wish you a lot of fun with GIMP, as it becomes stabler every day!