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    <title>History</title>

    <para>

        &TCAR; started at 

        url="mailto:centos-devel@centos.org">The CentOS Developers

        Mailing List</ulink> around 2008, on a discussion about how to

        automate slide images used by Anaconda (&TC;; installer).  In

        such discussion, Ralph Angenendt rose up his hand to ask

        —Do you have something to show?—.

    </para>

    <para>

        To answer the question, Alain Reguera Delgado suggested a bash

        script which combined SVG and SED files in order to produce

        PNG images in different languages —in conjunction with

        the proposition of creating a Subversion repository where

        translations and image production could be distributed inside

        &TC;;—.

    </para>

    <para>

        Karanbirn Sighn considered the idea intresting and provided

        the infrastructure necessary to support the effort.  This way,

        &TCAS; and &TCAR; were officially created and made world wide

        available. In this configuration, users were able to register

        themselves and administrators were able to assign access

        rights to registered users inside &TCAR;, both using a web

        interface.

    </para>

    <para>

        Once &TCAR; was available, Alain Reguera Delgado uploaded the

        bash script used to produce the Anaconda slides; Ralph

        Angenendt documented it very well; and people started to

        download working copies of &TCAR; to produce slide images in

        their own languages.

    </para>

    <para>

        From this time on, the &TCAR; has been under constant

        development to automate the production of &TC;; corporate

        visual identity.  The list of all changes is available in the

        repository's logs. A resumen of relevant changes is available

        in <xref linkend="repo-history" />.

    </para>

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