<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Hi Mike, </p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Ohhh, sounds interesting, I'll make it if I can. </p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">How did you get a speaker? </p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Cheers </p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Manlug Organiser</p><br><br>---- Michael Dorrington via Liverpool wrote ----<br><br>NOTE: This meeting will at our new location of the Manchester Technology<br><br>Centre.<br><br><br><br>Please forward this notice to those that would welcome it.<br><br><br><br>You can subscribe to the Manchester Free Software mailing list at:<br><br><a href="https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsuk-manchester">https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsuk-manchester</a><br><br><br><br>* Event: Manchester Free Software's February Meeting<br><br>* Content: Easy Linux patching workshop<br><br>* Speaker / Coach: Jules Octave<br><br><br><br>* Date: Tuesday, 19th February 2019 (3rd Tuesday of the month)<br><br>* Start time: 19:00<br><br>* Finish time: 21:00<br><br><br><br>* Location: Manchester Technology Centre<br><br> - <a href="https://mspl.co.uk/campuses/manchester-technology-centre">https://mspl.co.uk/campuses/manchester-technology-centre</a>/<br><br>* Address: Oxford Road, Manchester. M1 7ED.<br><br> - By the Mancunian Way flyover.<br><br> - <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/53.47222/-2.23792">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/53.47222/-2.23792</a><br><br><br><br><br><br>== Details ==<br><br><br><br>=== Introduction ===<br><br><br><br>The purpose of Manchester Free Software is to promote the Free Software<br><br>philosophy.<br><br><br><br>Every meeting we start with an opportunity for informal key signing.<br><br>For this you'll need to bring paper OpenPGP fingerprint slips, see<br><br>`gpg-key2ps` from the `signing-party` package (or equivalent in your<br><br>GNU/Linux distro):<br><br><a href="https://packages.debian.org/signing-party">https://packages.debian.org/signing-party</a><br><br><br><br><br><br>=== Schedule ===<br><br><br><br>19:00-19:05 Introduction and key signing<br><br>19:05-19:50 Setting up your environment and building Linux<br><br>19:50-19:55 Short Break (5 minutes)<br><br>19:55-20:25 Patching and recompiling Linux<br><br>20:25-20:30 Short Break (5 minutes)<br><br>20:30-21:00 Submitting the patch<br><br><br><br><br><br>=== Topic details ===<br><br><br><br>This meeting will be a workshop on patching Linux, the popular kernel.<br><br>The workshop will go through setting up your environment so you can<br><br>build Linux then compiling Linux, patching Linux, recompiling Linux and<br><br>then ultimately submitting these patches.<br><br><br><br>If you wish to follow along with the workshop then you'll need to have<br><br>some things set up beforehand:<br><br><br><br>* GNU/Linux OS; this can be a VM.<br><br>** This is to install the build environment and build in.<br><br><br><br>* Installed with the following tools:<br><br>** Git - `apt install git`<br><br>** Vim - `apt install vim`<br><br>*** OR text editor that you're familiar with including ctags<br><br>** Ctags - `apt install exuberant-ctags`<br><br>** C compiling toolchain - `apt install build-essential`<br><br><br><br>* Cloned Linux and fetched linux-next as described in:<br><br>** <a href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html">https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html</a><br><br>*** About 1.1 GB download and about 2.3 GB on disk<br><br><br><br>* Email account for submitting patches<br><br><br><br>If you need any help with doing this then preferably join and post to<br><br>the MFS mailing list:<br><br><br><br><a href="https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsuk-manchester">https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsuk-manchester</a><br><br><br><br>or email me.<br><br><br><br><br><br>== Location ==<br><br><br><br>The meeting will take place at our new venue of Manchester Technology<br><br>Centre, details above.<br><br><br><br><br><br>== Transport ==<br><br><br><br><br><br>=== Parking ===<br><br><br><br>Please research and decide where to park before heading on your journey<br><br>and have a Plan B.<br><br><br><br>There are paid parking lots around the venue, they are marked by a blue<br><br>P in OpenStreetMap centred on Manchester Technology Centre:<br><br><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/53.4722/-2.2379">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/53.4722/-2.2379</a><br><br><br><br>Most of those parking lots are owned by NCP:<br><br><a href="http://www.ncp.co.uk">http://www.ncp.co.uk</a>/<br><br><br><br>In some of the side streets in the venue surrounding area there are<br><br>parking meter bays that become zero cost after 8pm on Tuesday so you<br><br>will have to pay up until then and the maximum stay is 2 hours BUT MAKE<br><br>SURE YOU VERIFY ALL THIS on parking. This is probably only a good<br><br>option if you know the area.<br><br><br><br>If you can't decide where to park then ask me for advice.<br><br><br><br><br><br>=== Public Transport ===<br><br><br><br>Closest train stations to the venue are:<br><br><br><br>* Manchester Oxford Road (MCO) train station<br><br>* Manchester Piccadilly (MAN) train station<br><br><br><br>For other public transport see OpenStreetMap using the "Transport" layer<br><br>centred on Manchester Technology Centre:<br><br><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/53.4722/-2.2379&layers=T">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/53.4722/-2.2379&layers=T</a><br><br><br><br><br><br>== More Information ==<br><br><br><br>Information about Manchester Free Software can be found on the<br><br>Manchester Free Software pages on LibrePlanet:<br><br><a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Manchester">https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Manchester</a><br><br><br><br>Regards,<br><br>Mike.<br><br>MFS Chair.<br><br><br><br>-- <br><br>FSF member #9429<br><br><a href="http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=9429">http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=9429</a><br><br><a href="http://www.fsf.org/about">http://www.fsf.org/about</a><br><br>"The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide<br><br>mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all<br><br>free software users."<br><br><br><br><br>-- <br>Liverpool mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk">Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/liverpool">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/liverpool</a>