Re: [archhurd-devel] My presentation

[Michael Walker <mike@barrucadu.co.uk>]

Hi,

> I had a short chat few days ago on irc (my nick's msx) with one of
> your packagers and he suggested me to check back the website and the
> mailing list for ways to help with the project.

Alas, I was absent. I should really lurk on IRC more.

> I'm actually getting involved with Parabola GNU/Linux -an Arch Linux
> %100 Libre distro- so I think the knowledge I'm acquiring day-to-day
> with Arch and Parabola may well help Arch Hurd.

Cool, I've been watching Parabola; doing what?

> I think I can contribute with packaging and some other minor (I mean
> no so technical) things like wiki, translation to spanish and so on.
>
> If you see I may fit in Arch Hurd in any way I will be happy to start
> learning the basics and get my hands dirty as soon as it can be.

Well, translating would be a great help -- currently the website and
wiki are only in English; I'm not sure how big a Spanish-speaking
userbase we have, but translation would be wonderful. As for
packaging, contribute some things to the AUR first and see how things
go from there. At some point I'm going to set up a community repo (so
our AUR will be fully-functional), and that'll need trusted users; as
there are some great packages in the AUR, but we already have our own
things to do.

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