Re: Hurd Halloween party is still on!

[jbranso]

November 6, 2024 at 1:54 AM, "Yuqian Yang" <crupest@crupest.life 
mailto:crupest@crupest.life?to=%22Yuqian%20Yang%22%20%3Ccrupest%40crupest.life%3E
 > wrote:



> 
> 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.

No one's perfect.  :)  It's good to have lots of communities!

It's really fine.  I guess I am trying to build a Hurd community.  The recent 
game jam discussion
and subsequent actual game jam lead us to discovering a recent regression in 
many of the games
that compile on the Hurd but are failing to launch.  So there is some value in 
it.
 
> > 
> > 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!

I am game for a Hurd New Year's party!  We should do it!

Joshua

> 
> > 
> > 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


Hmmm solar calendars sound pretty cool!