The problem is Valve is currently completly giving the finger to every fan action attempted.
-Usual daily mails sent to Marc Laidlaw, Gabe Newell?? ----> No answer, or totally vague answer.
-Those two canadians setting next to Valve HQ??? ----> Best answer from Valve so far : they gave them food, they invited us in their office, they let them play DOTA 2... But still NO INFO on HL3/Ep3.
-The answer to the first "HL3 T-shirt?" ----> T-shirt confirmed, HL3 NOT.
-That Operation Crowbar? ---> Again, they answered to the fact : 1) they received the crowbars, 2) they will make something of them, 3) they even posted some photos of the crowbars next to Portal 2 awards, or for cutting chocolate.
But still : NOTHING about HL3.
-That current HL CFC?? ---> N.O.T.H.I.N.G.
How a "thank you Valve" action is going to help us??
....
OK, in fact I "see" the true objective of the OP is just to thank Valve... Yeah, thank Valve... Go thank this developer who has published fifty-awarded GOTY games, has sold millions of their games, gain massive money from their Steam platform...
Everyday the community is "thankful". We're not talking about that poor Raven Software company who completly fell into oblivion despite their sympathetic Singularity game, and the SoF series...
Jesus, I can also add that we have the biggest modding community of the VG world, numerous people who work every day since more than 10 years, working their ass off and sometimes doing extremely long and complex remakes and enhancements of the original games and add-ons...
So yeah, our "thanks" to Valve are already and since a decade, far beyond the words.
I will only agree with one part: We should be sympathetic for Raven Software. They made pretty awesome games, now they're just a COD map factory. :(