Re: Hurd Halloween party is still on!

[Yuqian Yang]

On 2024-11-06 03:15, jbranso@dismail.de wrote:

> I accept your apology.  No harm done.  :)

You are really nice people. It is always hard to forgive someone 
especially when being misunderstood.

I just haven't join one party like this. I used to contribute some open 
source software. Maybe the community is small compared to Hurd one. But 
I don't think this is good excuse for my rudeness.

Actually I highly respect people like you striving to give us spiritual 
energy. I think most people code for open source but seldom ones talking 
about emotions. Because most programmer enjoy solving actual software 
problems. But the left brain and the right brain are both important to 
compose a full human brain.

> If you search the bug-hurd archives, you'll see a very angry email from
> me to Samuel back in the day.  It's really ok.

Let the past be past. Good friends always argue and then reconcile.

> You all have a New Year's party right?  Do you celebrate it on January 
> 1st?  Or some other day?
> Are there good Chinese holidays that are celebrated at a similar time 
> as our Western holidays?

That's also a long story. :) I can tell you if you want to listen.

Note that most of these are not limit to China but also most east Asia 
countries and districts.

Chinese celebrate TWO New Year. One is January 1st in Gregorian 
calendar, which is used all over the world, like Christmas is December 
25. The other is on January 1st in Lunisolar calendar[1], aka Chinese 
New Year. On that day, families and friends reunite together back in 
hometown and celebrate it just like Christmas. This calendar has been 
used for a long time in ancient China. It is not sync with Gregorian 
calendar, so the actual date shifts in it. After the old dynasty died, 
for communication with the world, we then change to use Gregorian 
calendar but preserve most traditional festivals based on Lunisolar 
calendar.

I hope talking too much on this does not bother you too much.

Anyway, we also celebrate January 1st in Gregorian calendar and have 
holiday on it. I think this is a very good day. Both Chinese and 
celebrate it. New year, new plan, new energy!

> We did have a hackathon not too long ago.  I could certainly put a 
> little more effort into
> making our Hurd hackathons a little more fun.

That sounds kind of difficult. But I believe in you. :)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendar