[gimp-web] 25 anniv: first draft

[Alexandre Prokoudine <aprokoudine src gnome org>]

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Author: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>
Date:   Sat Nov 21 04:50:19 2020 +0300

    25 anniv: first draft

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+Title: This is 25
+Date: 2020-11-21
+Category: News
+Authors: Wilber
+Slug: 25-years-of-gimp
+Status: draft
+Summary: Exactly 25 years ago, Peter Mattis wrote a message to several newsgroups announcing a new image 
editor called GIMP. 
+
+Exactly 25 years ago, Peter Mattis wrote a message to several newsgroups announcing a new image editor 
called GIMP. 
+
+We've been really busy ever since.
+
+- Had to come up with GTK, a user interface toolkit of our own. Did not expect whole desktop environments, 
like GNOME and XFCE, to become the result of that. GTK is now a self-contained project used by hundreds, if 
not thousands developers.
+
+- Introduced Wilber, a little cute mascot who traveled the world and, admittedly, did some kinky things. 
They grow up so fast!
+
+- Helped kickstarting Libre Graphics Meeting as an extended version of our annual meetup in 2006. Made a lot 
of new friends every year since then.
+
+- Did our best to provide a sensible workflow to users by using common user interface patterns. That gave us 
a few questionable monikers like 'Photoshop for Linux', 'free Photoshop', and 'that ugly piece of software'. 
We still can wholeheartedly agree with the latter one only!
+
+- Tried to do too many things at once with too few active developers to realistically get things done in a 
sensible timeframe. Made a lot of people think the project died while we were slaving away really. So we 
introduced some planning. It's been paying off so far.
+
+- Made more people angry with software's quirks than we'd like to. Got help on that from more passionate 
contributors than we expected to. Would need more help yet.
+
+- Every day, we are one step closer to completing the boring yet extremely important work on refactoring 
GIMP to make way for great new things. Things that we've been meaning to do for a long time. Things that 
users have been expecting for an even longer time.
+
+The world is definitely a different place 25 years later. Louder, noisier, more demanding. Definitely less 
safe. But also full with warmth and humanity. We've seen waves of that washing up and down the rocky shores 
of GIMP.
+
+We don't really have any kind of big news for you to commemorate the anniversary. Sorry about that. We keep 
slaving away — in a more intelligent way these days, hopefully. But there might be cake.
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