diff --git a/doc/ANNOUNCE b/doc/ANNOUNCE
index 0c36401a1..4843e6975 100644
--- a/doc/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/doc/ANNOUNCE
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 Attention, attention hledger-folk! Once again, Happy Hallowe'en.
+
 After almost ten years of steady development, and one year since
 our last major release, I am very pleased to announce..
 
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 hledger's 1.0 release! It's about time!
 
@@ -56,11 +57,6 @@ Notable changes since 0.27:
 
 Full release notes: http://hledger.org/release-notes#hledger-1.0
 
-Contributors to this release include:
-Simon Michael, Dominik Süß, Thomas R. Koll, Moritz Kiefer,
-jungle-boogie, Sergei Trofimovich, Malte Brandy, Sam Doshi,
-Mitchell Rosen, Hans-Peter Deifel, Brian Scott, and Andrew Jones.
-
 How to install:
 
 (Get stack, eg from http://haskell-lang.org/get-started)
@@ -70,7 +66,19 @@ $ ~/.local/bin/hledger --version
 or see http://hledger.org/download for more install options,
 including cabal, OS packages and Windows binaries.
 
-I hope you find these tools helpful in achieving your goals.
-If you like hledger, your support and participation is welcome!
+Contributors to this release:
 
+Simon Michael, Dominik Süß, Thomas R. Koll, Moritz Kiefer,
+jungle-boogie, Sergei Trofimovich, Malte Brandy, Sam Doshi,
+Mitchell Rosen, Hans-Peter Deifel, Brian Scott, and Andrew Jones.
+
+How to get and give help:
+
+I hope you enjoy these tools and that they help you achieve your goals.
+The hledger project is too large for one person to do it justice, 
+so it's great to see our developer community growing.  If you like
+hledger, your support and participation is welcome! Our IRC channel is 
+#hledger on Freenode, and you can find out more at http://hledger.org.
+
+Best,
 -Simon
diff --git a/site/download.md b/site/download.md
index c4d324df2..d28b5aec1 100644
--- a/site/download.md
+++ b/site/download.md
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ The dev version includes not-yet-released features and is stable enough for dail
     - if stack warns that `~/.local/bin` (or the Windows equivalent) is not in `$PATH`, fix that
     - warnings about "No packages found in snapshot which provide a hsc2hs executable" can be ignored
 
-Cabal users can use the `cabal-install.sh` or the `cabal.project` files instead.
+Cabal users can use the `cabal-install.sh` or `cabal.project` files instead.
 
 
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diff --git a/site/release-notes.md b/site/release-notes.md
index d5c87fc46..4c28a0adf 100644
--- a/site/release-notes.md
+++ b/site/release-notes.md
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ reorganized multi-format docs,
 built-in help. 
 ***
 <!-- ([announcement](http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.finance.ledger.hledger/1267)) -->
-<!-- [announcement](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/hledger/3w7G0H9e7aE) -->
+([announcement](https://groups.google.com/d/topic/hledger/WgdTy3-a6sc/discussion)) 
 
 Release contributors:
 Simon Michael, Dominik Süß, Thomas R. Koll, Moritz Kiefer,