[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this 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*. [[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]""" else=" [[!paste id=full_news]]"]] [[!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! ;-) """]]