Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Software Freedom Day 2010 - Arch Hurd

[Michael S. Walker]

On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:00:56 +0100
Michael Dorrington <address@hidden> wrote:

> It is! [1]

Yay!

> I've heard of you. Or perhaps that should be, I've Hurd of you. :D
> But then I'm interested in the Hurd, I did a MFS talk including it:
> GNU's Not Linux: kFreeBSD and Hurd kernels for the GNU System
> <http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Manchester/2010-06-15>.
> 
> I'm currently working on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD but this should help with
> Debian GNU/Hurd (and Arch Hurd) long term. The kFreeBSD
> debian-installer work has helped getting the Hurd debian-installer.
> Would be great to chat to you.

I was looking through your facebook group and saw that talk, it sounds
like it was interesting. And yes, the debian-installer progress in this
GSoC has been of great interest to us - particularly the work on initrd
support in GNU Mach.
 
> Its all fairly relaxed (well, if you aren't the organiser it is) with
> people running their stalls, demo'ing ad-hoc and informally chatting.
> At last year's event several people that attended said that they were
> interested in a more explained Ubuntu install demo and so we[2] set a
> time (so as to give a chance to gather more people) and then ran it.

Well, I'll see how it goes and maybe do something more spectacular
next year - we have plans to hit ArchCon 2011 and possibly FrOSCon next
year, with one of the devs maybe doing something at C3 this year. All
publicity is good publicity ;)


> Yes, this is good.
 
> That's good.

> That's how we roll. :)

I have until the 18th to sort out a working Hurd box then :P


> I'll put you on our SFD wiki page. Set up is from 8am-10am, with event
> starting at 10am. Though it doesn't hot up until a little later
> (11am?).

Great - what time do things generally last until?
 
> [1] Perhaps I should put the team email address on the SFD wiki?

Probably - I think I turned to google to find this email address

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Michael Walker (http://www.barrucadu.co.uk)

Arch Hurd Developer;      GNU Webmaster;       FSF member #8385
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