On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 14:30 +0000, Gertenrehn, Cecilia wrote: > Hello! > > I am a teacher in sweden, and i just want to say thank you for the great work > you do. > Me, and the people i know who work with art in school (I work with the age > 12-15).. are so happy that gimp exist. > Since we have no budget to buy programs to the kids computers, Gimp saves > many art teachers work. > > There is a school law that says that the kids have to learn picture > manipulating programs in school, so without gimp, i think many teacher > wouldt be able to complete their mission as teachers. > > I just want you to know, how important your work is. It i not only a "fun > tool"… it is necessary. The kids learn how to work with pictures. They also > understand better how media fools us with adds on skinny girls and perfect > skins. This makes them feel better about them selves and they become more > critical to pictures they meet in real life and in media. (Also the kids love > to work with gimp.) > > I am an advanced user of photoshop, and i never thought it would be possible > to teach something that close to photoshop to my students. > > Also you do an excellent job on developing the program. =) > > I am going to donate the little money i have left this year on the art-school > budget, if i am allowed to do so. =) And i am going to tell the art teacher > colleagues i know on our internet page, to do the same. You deserve that. > > I wish you all a great day, week, year.. and so on. Hug each other and > celebrate yourself. > > And when you have a bad day, think of us, struggling teachers in sweden, > which have an easier job, thanks to you. > > BIG HUGS FROM SWEDEN!
Thank you Cecilia, we are all collectively blushing! It's really nice to get mail like this, in between all the complaints :) About the donation, that would of course be appreciated, but if you can spend it on something else that's useful for the kids, go ahead and do that instead :) Regards from the GIMP team, --Mitch _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
