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-@timeyyy here representing the Neovim Team.
+What is Neovim?
+---------------
 
-As one of Neovim's goals is to be welcoming to Contributors, I thought I would comment on my experiences being new to the team and all. In short, it has been a blast!
-I can strongly encourage anyone to get involved if you have been thinking about it. The community is a friendly place to be.  Come join us!
+Neovim is a fork of the venerable text-editor vim, focused on extensibility and
+usability. It is not a rewrite but a continuation and extension of Vim. Many
+clones and derivatives exist, some very clever—but none are Vim. Neovim is built
+for users who want the good parts of Vim, and more. See a list of differences
+via [:help vim-differences](https://neovim.io/doc/user/vim_diff.html)
 
-We are very happy to announce the release of version 0.2 Please check the [release page](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.2.0). for an extensive overview of features and fixes.
+### Participating
 
+If you are interested in contributing to neovim, visit [the github
+page](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.
+We have a great test suite and automated CI, so you can just jump in and have a
+go. Don't be afraid to open a PR to get comments or just take advantage of the
+infrastructure!
 
-Features
---------
+To get in touch with the team, join the [gitter channel](gitter.im/neovim) (also
+accessible via [IRC](https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=neovim)), or visit
+the [neovim subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/), which many of the
+developers read. Taking part in conversations is a contribution, too!
 
-- **Windows Support** see [Install Instructions](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Installing-Neovim) and [ongoing work](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/5229)
-- **Binaries** for windows and OSX platforms
-- **Timers** up to date with the vim implementation, they now can handle partials
-- **Ctrl r** will now paste into cmdline omitting trailing ^M
-- **:edit** now supports unescaped spaces in filenames
-- **Vim 8** features such as lambda and partials have been implemented
-- **New Autocmd** Welcome DirChanged !
 
+What's new
+----------
 
-Community Projects
-------------------
+The [last newsletter](https://neovim.io/news/2016/11/) has gathered some dust,
+so we want to bring you up-to-date in the neovim world. The elephant in the room
+is obviously
 
-Let's take a look at some projects that have sprung up recently.
+### Release 0.2
 
-### [Actualvim](https://github.com/lunixbochs/actualvim)
+It features windows support, various terminal improvements, full API
+documentation for developers and a host of smaller fixes and improvements.  See
+the [release page](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.2.0) for a
+detailed summary and download opportunities.
 
-Now this is a cool project - Bidirectional interface between Sublimetext and Neovim. This project could be used as a reference design to port to different editors as long as you have the ability to intercept all input.
+### 0.2.1-dev for Users
+- Window specific background (https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/6597)
+- Windows TUI (https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/6315)
+- AppImage packages for Linux (https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/6638)
 
-The steps required to make this work (straight from the horse's mouth)
+### 0.2.1-dev for Developers
+- Static Analysis with PVS (???)
+- Externalized tabline (???)
+- Eval.c refactor (https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/5119)
+- ui_events now reported in api metadata (???)
+- First usage of lua to implement core functionality
+(https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/67890)
 
-- sublime-facing code intercepts keys and handles reading/writing sublime state and listening for sublime events
-- neovim-facing code inputs keys and handles reading/writing vim state
-- glue code in the middle handles efficient synchronization
-- a pile of forked libraries (neovim, msgpack, asyncio, etc) hacked up to work in the sublime environment
+Around neovim
+------------------
 
-We also have a bonus example from the project. The popup menu(PUM) has been recently externalized from the grid, allowing
-clients to draw the widget as they like. Actualvim has externalized the PUM in around [~100LOC](https://github.com/lunixbochs/ActualVim/commit/bd214f980688546926c17ec84418446674f62f27). A picture can be seen [here](https://github.com/lunixbochs/ActualVim/issues/57#issuecomment-286452725)
+The wiki page of [related
+projects](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Related-projects) has seen quite
+some additions. You can see a lot of both GUIs and API clients which make use
+of neovim's architecture. You might want to take special note of the [VSCode
+integration](https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim) or the [sublime text 3 input
+mode](https://github.com/lunixbochs/actualvim). The number of plugins taking
+advantage of specific neovim features is also on the rise.
 
 ### The Architecture of Neovim.
 
-Some students have studied the Architecture of Neovim. The [results](https://delftswa.gitbooks.io/desosa-2017/content/neovim/chapter.html) look awesome.
+Some students have studied the Architecture of Neovim and published an
+"analytical essay" about their findings. Be sure to
+[have a look](https://delftswa.gitbooks.io/desosa-2017/content/neovim/chapter.html)
+if you are interested in the bigger picture.
 
-Development Goodies
--------------------
-### Features
-
-- **Externalized Tabline** - Thanks @dzhou121
-    Every UI component that is externalized means that nvim can run faster.
-- PVS studio static analysis. We now have static analysis by coverity, clang-scan, clang ASan/UBSan, clint, luacheck, and PVS
+Upcoming
+--------
 
-### Upcoming
+For an overview of planned features, goals and ideas for neovim had to the [road
+map](https://neovim.io/roadmap/). Some noteworthy upcoming PRs are:
 
 - [Floating Windows in the Terminal!](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/6619)
-- [Window Specific Background Color](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/6597)
 - [Externalized cmdline](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/6162)
-- [Windows Terminal UI](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/6315)
 - `:Terminal` in Windows
-- pre-build packages(Appimage) for Linux (https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/6638)
-
 
-### Note
+Stats
+-----
 
-- We unfortunately missed out on Google Summer of Code 2017, it is on the radar
-now and we are maintaining a list of [project ideas](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/GSoC-2018-Ideas).
-We should keep this brimming with ideas. It is required for our acceptance into GSOC;
-it can also spark creativity in contributors and students.
+Changes lines since the last newsletter:
 
-- We are aiming to release newsletters more often, please add any relevant news
-to our website's [issue tracker](https://github.com/neovim/neovim.github.io).
+    git log  --since="2016-11-01" --numstat --pretty=tformat: --numstat|gawk '{ add += $1; subs += $2; loc += $1 - $2 } END { printf "added lines: %s removed lines: %s total lines: %s\n", add, subs, loc }'
+    added lines: 189409 removed lines: 183936 total lines: 5473
 
-- We have a few contributors located in Europe, it would be cool to organize
-some events or sprints together!
+Merged commits:
 
-- @Sander2 (one of the students on the Architecture project mentioned above) has
-been experimenting with code fuzzing which resulted in a [bug fix](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/6557) in both Neovim and Vim.
+    git log  --since="2016-11-01"|wc -l
+    2590
 
-- @ZyX-I 's [eval.c refactor](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/5119) was also merged,
-paving the way for the built-in Lua for 0.3. We cannot wait!
+Different commit authors:
 
-- [Libuv](https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues/1287) might be getting support
-for cygwin and other platforms. This is great news for Neovim!
+    git shortlog -e -s -n --since="2016-11-01"|wc -l
 
 
-Misc
+Thanks
 ----
+Thank you sponsors, and thank you @justinmk @brammool et al for the awesome
+project.
 
-- [Neomutt](https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/415) may be getting a Lua based testing infrastructure similar to ours.
-
-- The [road map](https://neovim.io/roadmap/) has got your back if you need a quick overview of
-what is to come.
-
-- For a complete list of Neovim features [:help vim-differences](https://neovim.io/doc/user/vim_diff.html)
-
-- @brammool (creator of Vim), as well as @chrisbra (Vim contributor) have left a few comments on our issue tracker, it's nice to be working together!
-
-Thank you sponsors, and thank you @justinmk @brammool et al for the awesome project.
-
-—Timothy C. Eichler (@timeyyy)
+@brammool (creator of Vim), as well as @chrisbra (Vim contributor) have left a
+few comments on our issue tracker, it's nice to be working together!
