Well, it’s too early to congratulate to the Release of "Intrepid Ibex" aka Ubuntu 8.10, but before the planet will be swamped with release posts, here from a very happy Ubuntu User, Contributor, Developer (with/for), SysAdmin:

THANK YOU!

Thanks for making me and other people happy. Thanks to any Contributor of Ubuntu. Thanks to the Launchpad Development Crew.

You all do a great work and you can be proud of yourself.

Just 5 Mins ago, my colleague (who is just sitting in the office with me) told me: "Stephan, I have to say "Thank You" to you, because you work on Ubuntu. A friend of mine just forced me to tell you that."

This is what drives me. People are thankful, that someone is doing the work on a piece of "art".

To quote Jorge:

YOU ARE AWESOME!