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-A month of the Hurd: *presentations*, *procfs*, *Arch* and *need*. 
+A month of the Hurd: *Media Appearances*, *procfs*, *Arch Hurd*. 
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-> This month you can get a lot of insight into the Hurd very easily by watching 
-> the presentations from Neal Walfield and Michael Bank on Hurd 
-> at the GHM (GNU Hackers' Meeting) in denhaag: [“It’s About Freedom”](http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2010/denhaag/) 
-> ([video](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2010/GNU-Hurd_-_Its_About_Freedom,_Or_Why_you_should_care.ogv))
-> and Debian GNU/Hurd at the DebConf10:
-> [“Past. Present. And Future?”](http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/595.en.html) 
-> ([slides](http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/attachments/159_debian-hurd.pdf), 
-> [video](http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2010/debconf10/high/1117_Debian_GNUHurd.ogv)), 
-> including a very nice nod towards the main forces who are presently 
-> pushing the Hurd forward *(→ further 
-> [[media_appearances]] of the Hurd).*
+> Neal Walfield and Michael Bank have been doing presentations related to the
+> GNU Hurd: from the GNU Hackers Meeting in the Hague you can watch the
+> {{$community/meetings/ghm2010#walfield_hurd}} where he details why we're
+> still interested in working on the GNU Hurd, and there is another
+> {{$community/meetings/debconf10#banck_hurd}} from DebConf10, including a very
+> nice nod towards the main actors who are currently pushing the Hurd forward.
 
-> Also Jeremie Koenig (among other things)
-> [rewrote procfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00165.html) 
-> for the [[debian installer Summer of Code project|user/jkoenig]]:  
-> *“I have successfully tested it with most of the Linux procps utilities,
-> as well as busybox and htop. It seems to be stable, not too slow, and 
-> it stays under 1.5M in resident size.”*  
-> To get and test it:
+> Jérémie Koenig wrapped up his Google Summer of Code project ([[Debian
+> Installer|jkoenig]]) by posting his [*Hurd patches for
+> installer/build*](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/08/threads.html#00016)
+> as well as the [*patches used for hurd
+> 20100802-1~jk7*](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/08/threads.html#00022)
+> to the [[mailing_lists/debian-hurd]] mailing list.  Most of them have been
+> handled in the mean time, and we're still waiting for *you* to test his work
+> by following his easy [four-step
+> instructions](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/README.txt).
 
-> >    git clone http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git  
-> >    cd hurd  
-> >    git remote add jk git://github.com/jeremie-koenig/hurd.git  
-> >    git fetch jk  
-> >    git checkout jk/procfs  *# Add "-b procfs" to create a local branch.*  
-> >    make procfs  
-> >    settrans -ag /proc procfs/procfs --compatible  
-> >    *# you now have your new procfs*
+> However, even though that [[this year's GSoC|community/gsoc]] has come
+> to an end, he didn't stop working: among other things, he has rewritten
+> [[hurd/translator/procfs]] and [published his
+> version](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00165.html)
+> just before the end of the month:
+> 
+> > I have successfully tested it with most of the Linux procps utilities,
+> > as well as busybox and htop. It seems to be stable, not too slow, and 
+> > it stays under 1.5M in resident size.
+> 
+> Testing it is as simple as this:
+> 
+>     $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/hurd/procfs.git
+>     $ cd procfs/
+>     $ git checkout jkoenig/master
+>     $ make
+>     $ settrans -ca proc procfs --compatible
+>     $ ls -l proc/
 
-<!--note: this shows off the ease with which you can test deeper changes in the Hurd, so I think it warrants the space it gets.-->
+> Thomas Schwinge [added some more
+> information](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00066.html)
+> to the web pages, notably a bunch of [[open_issues]] reports, to have them
+> registered in a generic place, and to facilitate coordination.  If you're
+> looking for a Hurd-related project to work on, go looking
+> [[there|open_issues]]!  He also converted and merged some of the [hurdextras
+> CVS repositories](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/) into the [hurd Git
+> repositories](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd) and our
+> [incubator](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/refs/).  All
+> of this should make it easier for new contributors to join in.
 
-> Thomas Schwinge 
-> [added more information](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00066.html) 
-> into the wiki, notably open issues, to facilitate coordination, and started converting 
-> [hurdextras cvs repositories ](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/) into the 
-> [hurd git repos](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd) and the 
-> [incubator repository](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/). 
-> All of these should make it easier for new contributors to join in, and 
-> thanks to distributed version control, you can start hacking at once. 
+> The [[hurd/running/Arch_Hurd]] guys have some news to share, too:
+> 
+>   * They reported on their [current status](http://www.archhurd.org/news/17),
+>     as well as they [released a new LiveCD
+>     image](http://www.barrucadu.co.uk/arch-hurd-livecd-i686-core-2010-08-25iso),
+>     and added a [Planet Arch Hurd](http://planet.archhurd.org/) which
+>     aggregates the different Arch Hurd Blogs.
+> 
+>   * The team packaged everything you need for a
+>     [HAMP](http://www.archhurd.org/news/18/) system: Hurd, Apache, MySQL and
+>     PHP.
+> 
+>   * Their Diego Nieto Cid sent a patch series to [*bring console-driver-xkb
+>     up to
+>     date*](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/threads.html#00012).
+>     This is a add-on to allow using X keymaps to configure the [[Hurd
+>     console|hurd/console]] for non-US keyboard layouts.
 
-> Additionally the Arch Hurd team 
-> [released a new LiveCD](http://www.barrucadu.co.uk/arch-hurd-livecd-i686-core-2010-08-25iso) 
-> ([changes](http://www.archhurd.org/news/17))
-> which is a lot more stable that the previous one 
-> (including packages for a more stable X, now at Xserver 1.9), added a 
-> [Planet Arch Hurd](http://planet.archhurd.org/) 
-> which aggregates the Arch Hurd Blogs and packaged everything you need for a 
-> [HAMP](http://www.archhurd.org/news/18/) system: 
-> Hurd, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Sidenote: you can now 
-> [flattr](http://flattr.com/thing/44395/Arch-Hurd) 
-> Arch Hurd, if you want to support the project. 
-> Also for 
-> [Arch Hurd](http://archhurd.org), 
-> Diego Nieto Cid brought the console-driver-xkb 
-> [up to date](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00012.html). 
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-> Finally we had a short review of what the current Hurd contributors 
-> [still need](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00029.html) 
-> ([[summary|community/weblogs/ArneBab/what_we_need]]) 
-> to use the Hurd for most of their day-to-day tasks. 
+> Finally, amongst other bug fixing and other development work by the usual
+> suspects, we had a short review of what the current Hurd contributors [[still
+> need|community/weblogs/ArneBab/what_we_need]] to use a GNU/Hurd system for
+> most of their day-to-day tasks.  This may help to prioritize the development
+> efforts.
 
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