From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
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-Subject: {{ _("Merry Christmas!") }}
+Subject: {{ _("Wishing You a Happy and Prosperous New Year") }}
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Dear Friends of IPFire,
-I’m writing to you, about to sign off for Christmas, filled with pride for our
-great project and gratitude for our wonderful supporters.
+Did you see the highlights of 2023 we shared on our socials? If you didn’t, check our our
+Mastodon (https://social.ipfire.org/@news), Twitter (https://twitter.com/ipfire) and our
+LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/ipfire) to see some of our favourite users
+stories sent in by our friends and colleagues using IPFire.
-This has been a challenging but enjoyable year and I’d like to thank you for
-the support you’ve shown, whether through your contributions to the project,
-your feedback or your donations, our project wouldn’t have such an impact
-without people like you!
+I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for all of your support in 2023 and thank you
+in advance for your continued support as we head into 2024. As you know, we’re the only
+remaining truly Open Source Linux-based firewall and it is important to us not just to
+continue to develop this great project, but also to remain Open Source and available to all.
+Our mission is to continue to provide the same level of service with continued enhancements
+and better usability and all of this requires the continued to support of our fantastic users.
-As ever, thank you to my fellow IPFire team members and contributors for your
-efforts to make our project the best it can be
-Everyone has worked super-hard this year so whatever you’re celebrating this
-December, I wish the very best for you and your families over the festive
-break and may you have a happy and prosperous New Year.
-
-If you haven’t yet donated to the project, it isn’t too late -
-you can donate via the link below.
+If you’d like to help us kick off 2024 the right way, please click the link where
+you can donate to our project. Every donation is appreciated as it contributes to the
+continued success of our project and helps us keep our software open to all.
https://www.ipfire.org/donate
-Thank you again for your support - I wish you all a happy and relaxing end to
-the year and I’ll look forward to hearing from you all in 2023.
-
-{{ _("Best wishes and peace,") }}
+{{ _("Happy New Year!")}}
{{ _("-Michael") }}
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