Hi, I am giving an hour long talk at the end of next week about Arch, how it works and why we are successful. I will focus on stuff I am involved with (i.e. pacman...), but will give examples of things like how we decided on systemd, the new installer, etc. (other suggestions welcome) One thing I would like to talk about is our interaction with upstream. I know a few of us have commit access to various upstream projects, or have regularly contributed patches, or have upstream bug tracker privileges etc. Could people let me know about these things so I can make a summary. Something else I was specifically asked to cover is future plans for Arch. Does anyone have things beyond updating packages they want to do? Finally, if you are in Lisbon on the 1st of March, come see me! Search for "SINFO XX" for details. Allan P.S. Please reply off list to avoid irrelevant noise and we don't want to spoil my talk! I believe the talk will be posted on youtube and I will make my slides available too.