[gimp-web/wip/Jehan/issue-236-new-sponsor-page: 20/25] content: update sponsor page and news.

[Jehan <jehanp src gnome org>]

commit 85ee3b011a219e0fa3938be22a9e4e4eb8f16a49
Author: Jehan <jehan girinstud io>
Date:   Tue Sep 14 12:38:25 2021 +0200

    content: update sponsor page and news.

 content/donating/sponsors.md                       | 16 ++++----
 .../2021/2021-09-official_mirror_policy/index.md   | 43 +++++++++++-----------
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/content/donating/sponsors.md b/content/donating/sponsors.md
index c2430459..eba8b3f9 100644
--- a/content/donating/sponsors.md
+++ b/content/donating/sponsors.md
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Title: Sponsors
 Date: 2015-08-14T15:54:25-05:00
 Author: Pat David
 
-The GIMP team would like to thank all the sponsors for all the help they have given GIMP.
-**Thank you!**
+💌 The GIMP team would like to thank all the sponsors for all the help
+given. **Thank you!** 💌
 
 *Note: the following list in no way reflects the full list of sponsors of
 GIMP across the years. In particular, we want to thank the numerous
@@ -12,9 +12,8 @@ river!*
 
 ## Official Mirrors
 
-These are the entities sponsoring GIMP by mirroring the
-downloads, hence lessening burden on our servers.
-As of <!-- DATE -->, the official mirrors of GIMP are the following:
+*Entities sponsoring GIMP by mirroring the downloads, hence lessening
+burden on our servers (last update: <!-- DATE -->).*
 
 <!-- MIRRORS -->
 
@@ -26,10 +25,9 @@ a report on the Infrastructure tracker](https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/
 
 ## Legacy sponsor list
 
-This is a legacy list of sponsors. As of 2021, we are not sure anymore
-what type of sponsorship each subsection corresponds to. We leave the
-list for the sake of remembrance, because we should not forget past
-donators.
+*As of 2021, the sponsorship nomenclature is now unknown.
+We leave the list for remembrance of past
+donators.*
 
 Philantropist
 : Lars Mathiassen
diff --git a/content/news/2021/2021-09-official_mirror_policy/index.md 
b/content/news/2021/2021-09-official_mirror_policy/index.md
index 8993be19..c14adfda 100644
--- a/content/news/2021/2021-09-official_mirror_policy/index.md
+++ b/content/news/2021/2021-09-official_mirror_policy/index.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Status: draft
 
 As far as we could remember, organizations from all over the world have
 supported the GNU Image Manipulation Program by mirroring 🪞 our file
-downloads. This is important as we may have to sustain several dozens of
+downloads. This is important as we may have to sustain dozens of
 thousands downloads a day.
 
 # Official mirrors (to publication day)
@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ The always-updated list is on a dedicated [sponsor page](/donating/sponsors.html
 
 # What are official mirrors?
 
-We recently cleaned out our mirror list. The rules are:
+We recently cleaned out our mirror list per these rules:
 
-- Now we list exactly the mirrors verified by GNOME infrastructure team,
-  no more no less. Being verified by GNOME gives you rsync credentials
-  allowing faster and safer updates.
+- We now list exactly the mirrors verified by GNOME infrastructure team,
+  no more no less. Being verified gives you rsync credentials allowing
+  faster and safer updates.
   **See [below](#how-to-be-an-official-mirror) if you want in.**
 - Mirrors are not listed anymore in the [Downloads](/downloads/) page
   since there is an automatic mirror rotation operating when clicking
@@ -59,11 +59,10 @@ We recently cleaned out our mirror list. The rules are:
 
 *Note: we had more mirrors either listed on our former download page or
 who made reports of interest to be official mirrors across the
-years (back then our workflow was much more fuzzy). We sent messages to
+years (back then our workflow was much fuzzier). We sent messages to
 all of them but are not sure it reached the people in charge. If you
 wish to be part of the official list, help shoulder the download burden
-and be featured on our Sponsors page, it is still possible. Please look
-the procedure below.*
+and be featured on our sponsors page, please read the procedure below.*
 
 # How to be an official mirror
 
@@ -80,14 +79,14 @@ mirrors, except you must explicitly ask to be a GIMP mirror:
 - If you want a specific name and URL to be shown in the mirror sponsor
   list, please write it explicitly in the report (otherwise we will
   choose whatever organization name and URL seems the most relevant from
-  what you wrote down).
-- Once GNOME is done verifying your organization is trustworthy, they
-  will send you rsync credentials for syncing to the mirrors
+  what you wrote down)
+- Once GNOME is done verifying your organization, they will send you
+  rsync credentials for syncing your mirror
 - There is nothing to do in particular to appear on the
   [Sponsors](https://www.gimp.org/donating/sponsors.html) page which
-  will be synced at regular intervals through scripts. Yet it may take a
-  few days or even weeks at times. So don't worry if your organization
-  name does not appear immediately!
+  will be updated regularly through scripts. Yet it may take a few days
+  or even weeks at times. So don't worry if your organization name does
+  not appear immediately!
 
 🛈 We will check at random intervals that mirrors are updated quickly
 enough and that the data match for obvious security reasons.
@@ -107,16 +106,16 @@ having people to manually pick a mirror in a boring list.
 
 Listing only GNOME-verified mirrors has the following advantages:
 
-- GNOME makes the background check to verify an organization is
-  trustworthy.
-- Mirrors get rsync credentials, enabling faster updates (instead of
+- The infrastructure team makes the background check to verify an
+  organization is **trustworthy**.
+- Mirrors get rsync credentials, enabling **faster** updates (instead of
   through third-parties which may themselves sync from other third
   parties, hence avoiding several-day delays).
-- Our team has an accurate list to check when we want to do security checks
-  for file presence and identity.
-- Only verified mirrors are added in the download rotation settings, which
-  means they are directly helping with the bigger chunk of downloads. It
-  is only normal for them to be featured more prominently.
+- Our team has an accurate list to check when we want to do **security**
+  checks for file presence and identity.
+- Only verified mirrors are added in the download rotation settings,
+  thus **contributing** with the bigger chunk of downloads. It is only
+  normal for them to be featured more prominently.
 
 **Additionally to mirrors, we would like to thank the GNOME
 infrastructure team for their invaluable help!**