Re: Hurd Meeting in Madrid

[Philip Charles]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:55, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
> Hi.
>
> First of all, sorry for the off-topic, but i think you could find
> interesting the "experience" we are going to do in Madrid next 4, 5
> and 6 November.
>
> We are preparing a three days hurd-specific meeting on Madrid (web on
> http://es.gnu.org/hurdmeeting2005). The event is specifically oriented
> to developers, and the main goal is to teach hackers on how to hack on
> both GNU Mach and the Hurd.
>
> Take a look to the calendar and the activities:
>
>     * Friday 4
>           o 19:00 -- Meeting introduction.
>           o 20:00 -- Installing GNU/Hurd from scratch.
>           o 00:00 -- End of the day.
>     * Saturday 5
>           o 11:00 -- Mach and Hurd concepts
>           o 16:00 -- Mach VM and Hurd pagers
>           o 20:00 -- Mach IPC and MIG RPC
>           o 00:00 -- End of the day.
>     * Sunday 6
>           o 12:00 -- Mach Threads and migrating threads
>           o 16:00 -- Porting GNU Mach to other architectures
>           o 18:00 -- Alternative Microkernels: L4, EROS
>           o 20:00 -- End of the meeting
>
>
> ... much work to do these three days. Well, we dont know how many
> people will be attracted to this kind of event (it is extremely
> technical and the topic is difficult and not popular) nor if the
> attendants will be able to acquire enough knowledge to start hacking,
> but we are going to try anyway.
>
> We will report the result of the experiment. We hope it will be
> successful and to make a second Hurd Meeting on Madrid the next year
> (international, or course!).
>
> Wish luck for us! :)

I wish I could be there.

Phil.

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