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 ## Health report: 
 
-The summer vacation period has significantly impacted contributions, also a big block of active contributors (that are all employed from one vendor) have slowed down their active work on the project.
+The (northern hemisphere) summer vacation period has significantly impacted contributions, also a big block of active contributors (that are all employed from one vendor) have slowed down their active work on the project.
 
 We also added a status page to show all the continous integration (AppVeyor, Travis CI) statuses of all our repos in Github, providing a quick glance at project health. The status page is at http://cordova.github.io/cordova-status/ which shows the status of all our 60+ repos.
 
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 ## Mailing list activity: 
    
- Significant activity decrease due to the summer vacation period, plus loss of active contributors.
+ Significant activity decrease due to the (northern hemisphere) summer vacation period, plus loss of active contributors.
 
  - dev@cordova.apache.org:  
     - 463 subscribers (down -15 in the last 3 months):