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<section id="preface-history">
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    <title>History</title>
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        &TCAR; started at 
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        url="mailto:centos-devel@centos.org">The CentOS Developers
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        Mailing List</ulink> around 2008, on a discussion about how to
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        automate slide images used by Anaconda (&TC;; installer).  In
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        such discussion, 
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        url="http://wiki.centos.org/RalphAngenendt">Ralph
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        Angenendt</ulink> rose up his hand to ask —Do you have
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        something to show?—.
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        To answer the question, 
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        url="http://wiki.centos.org/AlainRegueraDelgado">Alain Reguera
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        Delgado</ulink> suggested a bash script which combined SVG and
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        SED files in order to produce PNG images in different
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        languages —in conjunction with the proposition of
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        creating a Subversion repository where translations and image
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        production could be distributed inside &TC;;—.
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    <para>
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        <ulink url="http://wiki.centos.org/KaranbirSingh">Karanbir
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        Singh</ulink> considered the idea intresting and provided the
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        infrastructure necessary to support the effort.  This way,
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        &TCAS; and &TCAR; were officially created and made world wide
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        available. In this configuration, users were able to register
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        themselves and administrators were able to assign access
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        rights to registered users inside &TCAR;, both using a web
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        interface.
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        Once &TCAR; was available, Alain Reguera Delgado uploaded the
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        bash script used to produce the Anaconda
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        slides;<footnote><para>See 
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        url="https://projects.centos.org/trac/artwork/browser/trunk/Main/render.sh?rev=15"
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        /></para></footnote> Ralph Angenendt documented it very
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        well;<footnote><para>See 
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        url="https://projects.centos.org/trac/artwork/wiki/HowToTranslateSlides"
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        /></para></footnote> and people started to download working
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        copies of &TCAR; to produce slide images in their own
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        languages.<footnote><para>See the following 
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        url="http://www.google.com/search?q=anaconda+slides+site%3Alists.centos.org">Google
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        search</ulink>.</para></footnote>
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    <para>
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        From this time on &TCAR; has been evolving into an automated
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        production environment where &TC;; can conceive &TC;;
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        corporate visual identity.
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    <para>
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        The exact changes commited to &TCAR; through history can be
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        found in the 
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        url="https://projects.centos.org/trac/artwork/timeline">repository
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        logs</ulink> so you can know the real history about it. For
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        those of you who just want to get a glance of changes
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        committed, see <xref linkend="repo-history" />.
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