> From: Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...> > Subject: [trinity-devel] Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! > To: trinity-devel@... > Date: Saturday, December 24, 2011, 11:15 PM > Greetings All, > > Almost a year ago, January 31st exactly, I first emailed > Timothy Pearson about helping out with Trinity. I wanted to > create an improved website and start contributing. Soon I > found that I was I could. This has manifested itself in > fixing up some bugs, getting trinity on arch, working on the > website, planning meetings - everything here and there and > in between. Oh my how a year passes. > > I proudly announce whenever the topic arises that I help > contribute and develop the traditional desktop. I am so very > proud of everyone involved. For a small development team and > limited resources, I think everyone is doing an amazing job. > We have a dedicated user base that is growing everyday. > Trinity is well on it's way to becoming a Linux > household name. > > Looking back at this year we had some bumps in the road. > The release of 3.5.13 was originally scheduled for the first > half of the year. Then in June we had a 2 week outage of > Tim's servers. We Had a bit of a bumpy (yet successful!) > release of 3.5.13 with some mirror problems and we've > had to fend off various folks as well as keep the masses > calm. But we also release a great product. Trinity Desktop > 3.5.13. What a release! It has paved the way for great > things to come. We closed a whole host of bugs, and finally > have packages available for all of the major distributions, > thanks to our dedicated packages. Beta ARM support and other > awesome technical feats by timothy have never failed to > impress me. > > The 3.5.13 release has set us up to put out an even better > R14 release, and looking into the next year I foresee > greatness! Trinity rising triumphantly out of the ashes of > the Linux desktop world, soldering in tablet interfaces and > lack of configuration. Like a phoenix out of the ashes! ;) > > But seriously, thank you so much to everyone who has > contributed! Thank you to Baho and L0ner, my newly found > archlinux packages. To Darrell the unrelenting bug reporter, > who has helped us work though many an issue. To Laurent who > has provided technical help many a time on the lists. To > Robert Xu, my good friend and ally, who has helped lament a > season of Chemistry and Physics induced headaches. To David > Hare, Kate Draven and Dr Nikolaus Klepp who have helped end > users needs by answering repeatedly on the trinity-users > mailing list. Thank you to everyone I haven't mentioned, > there are simply to many. > > Most of all I want to pitch my undying support for our > tireless leader, Timothy Pearson. His work on Trinity has > enabled all of us to come together and move forward. He has > guided us through 3 successful releases and will lead us to > many more. Tim is an excellent computer programmer and > also a amazingly calm and reserved gentleman. Hats of to Tim > and a round of applause! > > I am so excited for R14, and I'm really excited in the > direction we are heading, let's make Trinity the best it > can be. > > A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, You're not getting my Bud Light Calvin! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGQyv-43334 Darrell