Clarify Core Principles for 2025. Add new images to About page

content/english/about/index.md

@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ features:
         content: "Essential services for our conferences and meetups are processed in-house. For example, our servers personally generate your conference ticket—removing spying middlemen like Ticketmaster."
         color: "#6B8EE8"        
         content_class: "text-white"
-      - title: "Reasonable growth"
-        content: "As a [polyglot](https://vimeo.com/661662233), our founder intends to expand even outside the United States. Since we wish to retain independence, however, we’re only growing through increased audience support."
+      - title: "Direct funding philosophy"
+        content: "We grow through obvious means, funded primarily through ticket sales, followed by independent donations and fixed-rate job booth rentals: straightforward, mom-and-pop-style transactions."
         color: "#60E3C4"                
         content_class: "text-white"
 
@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ features:
     title_class: "text-white -mt-2"
     subtitle: "Founder"
     subtitle_class: "!text-[#F7CE3B]"
-    image: "/images/people/abner_2022_512.webp"
-    image_class: "rounded-full"
+    image: "/images/people/abner_2024.png"
     section_class: "text-white"
     transition:
       start: "/images/transition3.svg"
@@ -48,7 +47,7 @@ features:
       start_dark_color: "black"
     bg_color: "#060610"
     content_class: "mt-4"
-    content: "[Abner](https://abner.page) is founder of Handmade Cities and the sole organizer for our conferences.<br><br>At a young age he was mentored by Kennedy Space Center on how they make software. After winning NASA’s Intern of the Year, Abner published an essay on their programming philosophy: featured in the [news](https://observer.com/2017/07/a-look-into-nasa-coding-philosophy-kennedy-space-center-programming/). He was subsequently promoted to launch control engineer.<br><br>Abner founded the [Handmade Network](https://handmade.network/), an online community learning to make quality software. He went on to work under Jonathan Blow for several years and finally Cyan Worlds to ship the [Myst remake](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1255560/Myst/).<br><br>Now in his early thirties, Abner's mounting concern of declining software standards—both ethical and technical—pushed him to run conferences and meetups full-time, with a conviction we need independent organizing more than ever. (He still loves [programming](https://terminal.click) though.)"
+    content: "[Abner](https://abner.page) is founder of Handmade Cities and the sole organizer for our conferences.<br><br>At a young age he was mentored by Kennedy Space Center on how they make software. After winning NASA’s Intern of the Year, Abner published an essay on their programming philosophy: featured in the [news](https://observer.com/2017/07/a-look-into-nasa-coding-philosophy-kennedy-space-center-programming/). He was subsequently promoted to launch control engineer.<br><br>Abner founded the [Handmade Network](https://handmade.network/), an online community learning to make quality software. He went on to work under Jonathan Blow for several years and finally Cyan Worlds to ship the [Myst remake](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1255560/Myst/).<br><br>Now in his early thirties, Abner's mounting concern of declining software standards—both ethical and technical—pushed him to run conferences and meetups full-time. (He still loves [programming](https://terminal.click) though.)"
 
   - title: "Our Advisory Board"
     title_class: "mb-20 text-center text-white"
@@ -64,7 +63,7 @@ features:
         color: "#9B8EE8"
         content_class: "text-white"
       - title: "Mary Bush"
-        content: "Seattle indie developer (formerly in logistics/healthcare tech)."
+        content: "Seattle indie developer, formerly in logistics/healthcare tech."
         color: "#9B8EE8"        
         content_class: "text-white"
       - title: "Jon Stevens"
@@ -109,7 +108,7 @@ features:
     content: "Phil Homan, who goes by [PH Test](https://phtest.tv/), is a Seattle developer with a knack for multidisciplinary work: live-performance visuals, experimental programs, games, and video production—often with tools he made himself!<br>
 
   Phil joined Handmade Cities to help Abner with matters related to streaming, recording, and A/V support at the conferences."
-  - title: "Devon ([tek256](https://tek256.com))"
+  - title: "Devon aka [tek256](https://tek256.com)"
     title_class: "text-white"
     subtitle: "Editor"
     subtitle_class: "!text-[#F7CE3B]"
@@ -118,14 +117,16 @@ features:
     image_class: "rounded-full"
     content_class: ""
     section_class: "!pt-16 !pb-32 text-white"
-    content: "Devon is a guy who makes things.<br>(like a PSX style souls like in C on [stream](https://twitch.tv/tek256))"  
+    content: "Devon is a guy who makes things.<br>(Like a PSX-style souls game in C on [stream](https://twitch.tv/tek256))"  
 
   - title: "Mr. Perkins"
     title_class: "text-white"
     subtitle: "Secretary"
     subtitle_class: "!text-[#F7CE3B]"
     bg_color: "#060610"
+    image: "/images/people/perkins.png"
+    image_class: "rounded-full"
     content_class: ""
     section_class: "!pt-16 !pb-32 text-white"
-    content: "Mr. Perkins is Abner's part-time assistant, always working through his backlog of texts, emails or invoices."  
+    content: "Mr. Perkins is our year round part-time assistant, usually plowing through our backlog of texts, emails and invoices."  
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