[gimp-web] content: some (possibly final) edits.



commit 96b9cbb8dfe865fc3964809e93505511907b8428
Author: Jehan <jehan girinstud io>
Date:   Tue Jul 27 18:58:39 2021 +0200

    content: some (possibly final) edits.
    
    Trying to get rid of some redundancy of words, some (hopefully) better
    wording here and there, and such fixes.

 .../2021/2021-07_fund-GIMP-developers/index.md     | 46 +++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/content/news/2021/2021-07_fund-GIMP-developers/index.md 
b/content/news/2021/2021-07_fund-GIMP-developers/index.md
index e90fd80e..ad72a20a 100644
--- a/content/news/2021/2021-07_fund-GIMP-developers/index.md
+++ b/content/news/2021/2021-07_fund-GIMP-developers/index.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ It has become a growing concern as we have had skilled developers come
 and go for years. Contributing takes a crazy amount of time and people
 have family, work and other responsibilities to take care of. Thus when
 core team contributors are willing to be paid for making Free Software,
-we have decided that GIMP as a project should encourage such endeavour
+we have decided that GIMP as a project should encourage such endeavours
 by putting more emphasis on their funding.
 
 There are currently 2 such crowdfunding projects. **You can consider
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ The integration of GEGL started in [GIMP
 port towards color management happening in
 [2.10](https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.10.html). It is still a
 work in progress, with plans for deeper integration of existing and
-future capabilities of GEGL in future releases of GIMP as they continue
+future capabilities of GEGL in future versions of GIMP as they continue
 to get refined and tested.
 
 Øyvind is known not only for his work on GEGL itself, but also for his
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ himself as:
 
 GIMP wouldn't be here without sharp minds like his. Can you imagine, 17
 years or more of dedication to free software and researching images? So
-yes, [the GIMP project fully endorses Øyvind's Patreon campaign and we
+yes, [GIMP project fully endorses Øyvind's Patreon campaign and we
 encourage everyone to donate!](https://www.patreon.com/pippin)
 
 <p class='buttons'>
@@ -103,10 +103,10 @@ encourage everyone to donate!](https://www.patreon.com/pippin)
 
 [ZeMarmot](https://film.zemarmot.net/) is a Libre Art project born as
 an idea in 2014, launched in 2015 with production starting in 2016. In
-particular, it is an Open Animation Film ([Creative Commons
+particular, it is an Open Animation short film ([Creative Commons
 BY-SA](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) license
-promoting sharing and reuse) led by the animation film director, Aryeom,
-and GIMP co-maintainer, Jehan.
+promoting sharing and reuse) led by the film director, Aryeom, and GIMP
+co-maintainer, Jehan.
 
 <figure>
 <img src="{attach}ZeMarmot_header.png" alt="ZeMarmot project logo"/>
@@ -115,21 +115,21 @@ and GIMP co-maintainer, Jehan.
 </figcaption>
 </figure>
 
-Now you might wonder why an animation film would help GIMP, but this is
-actually the whole reason why Jehan has been heavily developing the
-software, to the point that he has been the biggest contributor since
-2020 and is now co-maintainer. Working on other fun projects with Aryeom
-is even the whole reason why Jehan started contributing to GIMP at all,
-ever since 2012.
+Now you might wonder why an animation film would help GIMP, yet this is
+the whole reason why Jehan has been heavily developing the software, to
+the point that he became the biggest contributor since 2020 and is now
+co-maintainer. Working on other fun projects with Aryeom is even the
+whole reason why Jehan started contributing to GIMP at all, ever since
+2012.
 
 *ZeMarmot* is a traditional (yet digital) 2D animation film, meaning a
-lot illustration work (every frame hand-drawn), i.e. needs of brushes,
-selections, filters, transformation tools, scripting for automatization
-and all sort of raster edit requirements.
+lot of illustration work (each frame hand-drawn), hence requiring heavy
+usage of brush tools, selections, filters, transformation tools,
+scripting for automatization and all sort of raster edit needs.
 
 This is why the ensuing development is not only about illustration and
 animation, as some might believe. They are not aiming at changing the
-scope of the software. GIMP is a generic graphics manipulation tool, and
+scope of the software. GIMP is a generic graphics manipulation tool and
 what we have realized over the years is that most features are so
 cross-disciplined that it makes total sense to have a generic tool.
 Moreover Aryeom and Jehan also work from time to time on printing jobs,
@@ -139,8 +139,8 @@ with GIMP!
 A lot of care is taken to fix bugs, improve stability, efficiency,
 packaging and add generic tools and features useful to photographers,
 designers, illustrators, scientists, animators…
-Trying to list all the improvements brought by *ZeMarmot* would actually
-not be possible because there are too many.
+Trying to list all the improvements brought by their work would be a
+challenge because there are too many.
 
 Nowadays, *ZeMarmot* is as much an **artisanal animation film project**
 (Aryeom single-handedly working on nearly every production role) as it
@@ -161,12 +161,12 @@ ones](https://gitlab.gnome.org/Jehan/what-is-peertube/) for this video
 they made for [Framasoft about
 Peertube](https://framatube.org/videos/watch/9c9de5e8-0a1e-484a-b099-e80766180a6d))
 with many artists (hence producing films at much better pace than they
-are able right now) and with many developers fixing production issues.
-We can truly consider LILA as GIMP's own non-profit Open Animation
-studio!  And yes, an Open Animation studio producing Libre Art will also
-help get better tools for photography editing or design as well.
+are able right now) and developers fixing production issues.
+We can truly consider LILA as GIMP's sister non-profit Open Animation
+studio! And yes, an Open Animation studio producing Libre Art will help
+get better tools for photography editing or design as well.
 
-This is why [the GIMP project also fully endorses LILA and *ZeMarmot*
+This is why [GIMP project also fully endorses LILA and *ZeMarmot*
 project and encourages the whole community to give to this project in
 order to improve GIMP](https://www.patreon.com/zemarmot). You can
 consider it a fostered project of GIMP.


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