Today, on 21^st of November 2022, the GNU Image Manipulation Program
turned 27 (cf. the first release announcement on
1995-11-21).

To celebrate, Aryeom (ZeMarmot‘s director) drew
this nice birthday illustration (fully drawn within GIMP, and under Creative
Commons by-sa 4.0 license, of course!):

For both Aryeom and I (Jehan), this is our tenth year of continued contribution,
since a first commit in September 2012 (basic icon-changing patch in the
animation playback plug-in, soon followed by more… many more patches…). Back
then, never would we have imagined sticking for so long around this nice core
community (regarding this point, we thank the other contributors for their
welcomeness, and in particular the wonderful
mitch)
and contributing litterally thousands of patches in GIMP! So it’s also a pretty
big personal milestone.

It is also my second year maintaining GIMP. And to be fair, Aryeom has a huge
role in my maintenance with constant reviewing, testing my code (and other
contributor’s code), following up with feedback, specifying behaviors (while
always caring about