hurd_2013: Some Highlighting and a partial timeline.

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diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn
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@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ else="
 
 [[!cut id="full_news" text="""
 
-It is with huge pleasure that the Hurd project announces the release of Debian
-GNU/Hurd 2013.  This is a snapshot of Debian sid at the time of the Debian
+It is with huge pleasure that the Hurd project announces the 
+**release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013**.  
+This is a snapshot of Debian sid at the time of the Debian
 Wheezy release (May 2013), so it is mostly based on Wheezy.  It is *not* an
 official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.
 
@@ -33,9 +34,12 @@ with the usual 3 Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. A pre-installed disk image
 is also available to make trying Debian GNU/Hurd even easier.
 
 Yes, really. This time it is not a joke like the
-[[0.401 release|news/2011-04-01]] . Due to the very small amount of
-developers, the progress of the project has not been as fast as other successful
-Operating Systems, but we believe to have reached a very good state.
+[[0.401 release|news/2011-04-01]].
+
+Due to the very small number of developers,
+our progress of the project has not been as fast as other successful
+Operating Systems, but we believe that we now reached a very good
+state.
 
 Please make sure to read the
 [[configuration information|http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install]],
@@ -46,7 +50,21 @@ for a start.
 We would like to thank all the people who have worked on GNU/Hurd over the past
 decades. There were not many people at any given time (and still not many people
 today, please [[join|contributing]]!), but in the end a lot of people have
-contributed one way or the other, thanks everybody!
+contributed one way or the other. **Thanks everybody!**
+
+**A Debian GNU/Hurd Timeline**
+
+- 1997: Last release of the Hurd without Debian: GNU Hurd 0.2.
+- 2002: GNU MIG 1.3, libio-based glibc, GNU Mach 1.3 (disks >= 10GiB), Hurd L4 starts, work on the transition from cthreads to pthreads starts, Hurd installation party in Heidelberg, Toronto Hurd User Group meeting, Presentation at EpX in Paris ([slides](http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/pres-en/)).
+- 2003: [Crosshurd](http://packages.debian.org/crosshurd), [LinuxTag 2003](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-hurd/2003-07/msg00029.html).
+- 2005: Hurd/L4 at Libre Software Meeting.
+- 2007: [[FOSDEM|community/meetings/fosdem_2007]], the [[critique_and_position_paper|hurd/news/2007-01-14]], [[libchannel_for_GSoC|news/2007-10-01]], [[IPv6|news/2007-10-12]], Hurd/L4 abandoned.
+- 2008: [[5_successful_GSoC_projects|news/2008-09-11]], Hurd on Xen via PAE, [[Hurd/Viengoos|news/2008-12-12]]
+- 2009: [[GSoC_unionmount_translator|news/2009-09-30]], [[Start_of_Device_Drivers_in_Userspace|news/2009-11-30]].
+- 2010: [Arch Hurd](http://www.archhurd.org/), [Initial Nix port](http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/hurd-master), [[DDE|news/2010-02-28]], slow but working Xorg, Thesis: [[Generalizing mobility for the Hurd|news/2010-01-31]], [Hurd article in LWN](http://lwn.net/Articles/395150/), [[procfs|hurd/translator/procfs]], Talk: [It’s about Freedom](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2010/GNU-Hurd_-_Its_About_Freedom,_Or_Why_you_should_care.ogv), GSoC: Debian Installer, Hurd/Viengoos on hold, Hurd on Xen as DomU works.
+- 2011: [[GNU_Hurd_0.401|news/2011-04-01]], xkb, [Hurd in xkcd](http://xkcd.com/844/), Graphical Debian Installer, Plans for Debian GNU Hurd in Wheezy, Hurd [bounties](http://www.fossfactory.org/project/p276) on FOSS Factory, Lots of [attention from the press brought lots of rumors](news/2011-q2-ps), [Talk at GHM in Paris](http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/#outline-container-2-5) ([video](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2011/Samuel_Thibault-GNU_Hurd.ogv), slab allocator, Continuous builds with Nix, improved build system, GSoC: [[Java|user/jkoenig/java]].
+- 2012: Half the Linux network drivers build with DDE, [Continuous testing with Nix](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-03/msg00019.html), glibc changes upstream, improved debugging, memory mapping [with red-black tree](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00109.html), pthreads work, [[live-filesystem-debugging_report|news/2012-q1-q2]].
+- 2013: 
 
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