10th anniversary

[ron minnich]

OK, I am not sure when the 10th anniversary actually is. I only know
that it happens this year sometime, and I started work on the idea
sometime in the late summer/early fall, after fighting a cluster on
intel mobos that didn't get out of POST for 5 minutes.

For lack of a better guess, I'm going to pick 9/9/9, because:
1. it works to the same date in the US usage (mmddyy) and EU usage (DDMMYY).
2. It's our last chance to have a single-digit date like this for
quite some time.
3. it's a friends birthday anyway.

So, all we need to work out now is where to have the party.

ron

[Rudolf Marek]

ron minnich napsal(a):
> OK, I am not sure when the 10th anniversary actually is. I only know
> that it happens this year sometime, and I started work on the idea
> sometime in the late summer/early fall, after fighting a cluster on
> intel mobos that didn't get out of POST for 5 minutes.

Here is something with a date log:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000817085311/www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/

Oldest Ron page archived:
http://web.archive.org/web/19991005231703/http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~rminnich/

For a party I would suggest Europe :) ?
Or we may have US/Europe double party?

Rudolf

[ron minnich]

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Rudolf Marek  wrote:
> For a party I would suggest Europe :) ?

I would too. Most of the work being done is outside the US anyway
nowadays ... most of the developers i know are in Europe .

I just hope I can make it :-)

ron

> > For a party I would suggest Europe :) ?

hello everyone, from France ;-)

first of all, let me say a happy birthday to the coreboot project and big thanks
to all its past, current and future contributors...

btw, there's an international meeting in my neighbourhood concerning also the
aspects of open hard/soft-ware next month : the LSM in Nantes, France from the
7th to 11th of July 2009 (http://2009.rmll.info)
what a pity, that nobody would give even a small presentation of this project
:-((

secondly, i would like to know if it's possible to have an 'open wiki' on the
coreboot to allow translation ?
i kknow, because i'm a scientist too, that english/american is the de
facto natural language for software projects, but IMHO translation of webpages
and software (gettext...) is a good way to make it visible worldwide...
of course, i would be happy to contribute to the french one, some time to time
;-)

thirdly i would like to mention, is that, after reading a lot of documents
available for this project, i can happily better understand the overall process
of booting...
...but i must admit that there are still some parts that remain magical and all
these hexa values give me headache
:-D

another consequence, is that most of these informations, even essential, are
quite indigestible for the everyday computer user, so at least, introducing a
User Manual, a small 'howto for the newbies' or 'coreboot for the dummies'
should be a good thing, to let them understand, install and contribute more
easily to the project

sincerely yours
Geraud Guibert

Libre Software Meeting 2009

[Peter Stuge]

[e-mail] wrote:
> 7th to 11th of July 2009 (http://2009.rmll.info)
> what a pity, that nobody would give even a small presentation of
> this project :-((

I just asked the organizers if they would like a coreboot
presentation in the agenda. Will send an update when I hear back.

//Peter