Good news :) UEFI: what about shim? ( http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20303.html )
2014-05-12 5:03 GMT+02:00 Raul Liota da Rosa <[email protected]>: > Complementing ... > > USB sticks were absolutely a success, just think have that best we > distribute them, or increase the amount for the next time, because they were > almost all distributed on the first day. > > UEFI and Secure Boot is actually a problem that we must give great > importance to solve until today I could not quite understand how law works > the question of licensing it, but I think since we are not able to resolve > this without such license, we take a look at how to license OpenMandriva for > UEFI. > > But overall it was very good, we are now well known, as different from last > year where most people come to us not knowing what we were, this year the > vast majority came to us already know each other and wondering how to help > or then to congratulate us for the work we are doing. > > We were also very well received by other communities that were present, such > as Red Hat, Fedora, Suse and Mozilla (FirefoxOS), etc, all liked our work > and some people were even those communities interested in helping us too. > > > 2014-05-11 10:22 GMT-03:00 Kate Lebedeff <[email protected]>: > >> >> Hello all >> >> Here are some comments from PCPA about FISL, where our brazilian team was >> working last days. >> People do get interested, but they need guidance: how exactly they can >> contribute. >> >> Best >> >> Kate >> >> >> >> I believe it was overall very good, and we are now somewhat known >> at least in FISL circles. There was significant talk with teachers and >> students. >> >> While my main area of knowledge is technical, I would like to say >> that we need some work on the wiki, and then translate to pt_BR and >> other languages, with a proper description of all steps in how to >> provide bug reports, how to become a contributor, that can be from >> a comunity person to a packager to a kernel developer. >> >> An interesting sugestion from someone that does so in Ubuntu is >> to have a facebook page where people triage bugs, or report how >> to correct problems, etc. >> >> Well, to get docs written we probably need people actually >> assigned to it at start, once things start working and we have an >> "skeleton", it should just flow. >> >> Overall, our major "enemy" is UEFI, but then, those were the only >> computers that people would bring to us, to attempt to get our >> help in installing, usually dual boot with windows, and with bioses >> that either do not support disabling secure boot or do not have >> legacy boot support. > >
