We've had yet another in a long line of successful releases of the Fedora distribution. Now that the furor over the first few release days has passed, we on the Board want to recognize the outstanding efforts of our friends and colleagues in the Fedora Project. A huge amount of development work has gone into this release, on a variety of features from desktops to drivers, by ambitious engineers. Package maintainers have kept up with myriad upstreams to provide the best of what works today for millions of consumers. Our designers made everything beautiful, cleaning up icons, building thematic web banners, and providing a brilliant backdrop for daily work. Documentation writers kept track of changes in the distribution and made sure that studious users can find information they need. Translators around the world made Fedora 13 ready for a global user base, working together with developers and writers to localize content into dozens of languages. Release engineering made sure everything was built according to spec and provided publicly on multiple schedules throughout the release cycle. The bug triage and quality assurance teams repeatedly tested Fedora, identified problems, and helped move them to resolution to make the distro as stable as possible. The project's system administrators made sure all our bits were in their rightful places and available around the world as easily as possible to the public. Our marketing and Ambassadors teams and the good folks at the Fedora Weekly News continue to work together to spread information and updates about our project and distribution consistently and globally. In short, from every person who has promoted or provided Fedora, filed or fixed a bug, written or packaged code, labored over writing or translation, gardened the wiki, built or remixed the distro, helped their fellow users and contributors in a positive spirit of free and open source community -- thank you to each and every one of you! With sincere gratitude, The Fedora Project Board Christopher Aillon Josh Boyer Tom 'spot' Callaway Matt Domsch Paul W. Frields Dennis Gilmore Mike McGrath John Poelstra Chris Tyler Colin Walters -- announce mailing list announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce
