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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!meta date="2011-04-05 21:30 UTC"]]
+
+A quarter of the Hurd, Q1 of 2011: *GSoC*, and *new faces*.
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+[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
+
+We're again participating in the [[Google Summer of Code's 2011
+edition|community/gsoc]].  If you know someone who knows that her neighbor
+would be interested in getting mentored (by us) and paid (by Google) for
+working on a [[GNU/Hurd task|community/gsoc/project_ideas]], please hurry up:
+the *student application period* will end this Friday, 2011-04-08.
+
+There's further progress to be reported on the package porting front:
+additionally to the usual suspects, Svante Signell
+[has](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-01/msg00028.html)
+actively [started](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/02/msg00021.html)
+with [contributing](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/02/msg00036.html)
+by [fixing](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-03/msg00017.html)
+or [porting](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/01/msg00025.html) his
+[favorite](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/01/msg00062.html) packages
+[to](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/01/msg00051.html) GNU/Hurd.
+Welcome, Svante!
+
+Amongst other fixes, Diego Nieto Cid submitted his work for using [XKB's
+keymaps for the Hurd
+console](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-03/threads.html#00053).
+Of course, he was not the only one to contribute fixes; there's always our
+bunch of folks who appear every other month, or week, and send in some
+contribution.  Also, as we ask our GSoC applicants to submit patches in order
+to substantiate their application, we've seen some additional ones due to that.
+([[And you can, too.|contributing]])
+
+The Arch Hurd folks published their [Year of Arch Hurd
+report](http://www.barrucadu.co.uk/year-of-arch-hurd), wrapping up their
+progress, including GHAMP (GNU/Hurd, Apache, MySQL, and PHP), X.org, and their
+[Arch Hurd LiveCD](http://www.archhurd.org/gethurd.php#livecd).  We had
+published our [[YotH 2010|2010]], too.
+
+Finally we got a nice [recognition (or did they mean...) by
+xkcd](http://xkcd.com/844/), *How to Write Good Code*, subtitled *You can
+either hang out in the Android Loop or the HURD loop*.  Go figure!  ;-)
+
+"""]]