[gnome-cy] Press release on Welsh support

[Kevin Donnelly <kevin dotmon com>]

As promised, a draft of a possible release (which I will translate later, 
unless somebody volunteers), on which comments would be welcome.  This month 
may be quite a good time to send it out, because news is a bit sparse this 
time of the year.

A few points:

1)  I think it makes sense to attribute this to some sort of "body", so I have 
(for the time being) invented one, which I have called the "Welsh Free 
Software Collective" - suitably vague.  But if anyone has any better ideas 
for a name, let's have them.  I thought about various things related to 
"rhydd", but I decided the recipients might think we were something to do 
with prison reform.

2)  I have put a figure in for man-hours of voluntary effort involved, and an 
estimate of 3,000 hours, based largely on my own input multiplied.  I think 
this is probably conservative, actually.  But it might not be a bad idea if 
people could keep a rough tally of how much time they are spending on this - 
i remembered today that (certainly in the past) it was possible to cost out 
hours of voluntary effort and use that figure to claim match-funding from 
some groups in some circumstances.  That might be quite useful.

3)  I have suggested some contacts, but please make alternative suggestions as 
appropriate.

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gurable than proprietary software, and they support Welsh software because they believe that everyone should be able to use a computer in their native language.}
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