# Thank you and Happy Holidays!

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/thank-you-and-happy-holidays/10102>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [December 22, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/thank-you-and-happy-holidays/10102 "2016-12-22T00:07:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![nathenharvey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/nathenharvey/32/964_2.png) [@nathenharvey](https://discourse.chef.io/u/nathenharvey)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/thank-you-and-happy-holidays/10102/1 "2016-12-22T00:07:20Z")

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2016 has been another awesome year for the Chef Community. _Thank you for being part of this community._

We've seen new tooling, like [InSpec](http://inspec.io/) and [Habitat](https://www.habitat.sh/), new collaboration tools, like our [Chef Community Slack team](http://community-slack.chef.io/), and awesome conferences, like ChefConf, Community Summits, and countless meetups and other local events.

We've seen new contributors, have accepted many [RFCs](http://github.com/chef/chef-rfc), and are continually making improvements to both our open source and [commercial offerings](https://www.chef.io/automate/). More importantly, you're succeeding with Chef!

We are continually striving to create an inclusive, welcome, and diverse community for everyone. We strive to follow the ubuntu philosophy that [Adam discussed in his ChefConf keynote](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL5uy5eXYtA&list=PL11cZfNdwNyPo_EEgCGDe9mrUlMtTf361&index=12&t=48m32s):

> I am because you are  
> When you suffer, I suffer  
> When you thrive, I thrive

I'd like to wish you and your family a very happy holiday season and great success in the new year. Our community is better because you are a part of it. Thank you.

Happy Holidays!  
Nathen  
[@nathenharvey­](https://twitter.com/nathenharvey)

P.S. I would come give each and everyone of you a hug between now and the end of the year if I could. Since that's not really feasible, I'll just have to leave you with a [#Hugops video](http://hugops.chef.io).