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 ### CoS funding
 
-We've received substantial funding which will allow us to focus on releasing a stable beta release of Co-op Cloud :tada: :fireworks: :sparkles: Read more in [the announcement post](#LINK-TO-ABOVE-ARTICLE). We're Very Excited.
+We've received substantial funding which will allow us to focus on releasing a stable beta release of Co-op Cloud 🎉 🎆 ✨ Read more in [the announcement post](#LINK-TO-ABOVE-ARTICLE). We're Very Excited.
 
 ### Github mirroring
 
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-We were inspired by the “This Week in Matrix” style logging so we decided we’ve git it a shot ourselves. We’ll try to write up something each week to keep folks updated on what is going on with the project. Here we gooooooo… CoS funding We’ve received substantial funding which will allow us to focus on releasing a stable beta release of Co-op Cloud :tada: :fireworks: :sparkles: Read more in the announcement post.
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+We were inspired by the “This Week in Matrix” style logging so we decided we’ve git it a shot ourselves. We’ll try to write up something each week to keep folks updated on what is going on with the project. Here we gooooooo… 
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