GNU Hackers Meeting 2008

A meeting for GNU hackers (maintainers and active contributors) in Bristol (UK), 10-11 July 2008.

Summary

This meeting was held on 10-11 July 2008 in Bristol. About 18 GNU maintainers from UK and Europe attended.

• Videos of the talks available in Ogg format (thanks to Kaveh Bazargan of River Valley for recording the meeting!)
• Some photos (thanks to Réné Mérou)
• Personal reports
  • Tim Retout
  • Dave Crossland
• Post-event report from Brian Gough (organiser)

Program

Thursday

• Nathan Sidwell - Non-stop multithreaded debugging in GDB
• Jose E. Marchesi - The GNU PDF Project
• Stepan Kasal - GNU Autoconf
• Discussion

• Dave Crossland - Free Fonts
• Ian Jackson - Distributed Version Control
• Sylvain Beucler - GNU FreeDink
• Luca Saiu - GNU Epsilon
• Juan Pedro Bolívar Puente - Psycosynth demo
• Discussion

Funding

The meeting generously received $1000 from FSF, 1000 EUR funding from NLnet Foundation and $500 from CodeSourcery.

More information

Discussion from the meeting is archived on the mailing list at http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/ghm-2008

Attendance

• Neil Jerram (Guile)
• Ian Beckwith (GNU Interactive Tools)
• Brian Gough (GNU Scientific Library) (organizer)
• Nick Clifton (GNU Binutils)
• Richard Shann (GNU Denemo - Lilypond GTK frontend)
• Nathan Sidwell (GCC, GDB, Binutils)
• Jose E. Marchesi (GNU PDF, Ferret, Ghostscript/gv)
• Aleksander Morgado (GNU PDF)
• Nacho González López (GNU chapters infrastructure)
• Alfred M. Szmidt (HURD, glibc, inetutils)
• Luca Saiu (GNU Epsilon)
• Tim Retout (GNU Enscript)
• Andrew John Hughes (GNU Classpath)
• Dave Crossland (Free Fonts) [Friday only]
• Sylvain Beucler (Savannah)
• Juan Pedro Bolívar Puente (GNU Jump, GNU PDF)
• Ian Jackson (dpkg, adns, userv, Debian BTS)
• Stepan Kasal (GNU Autoconf)
• Réné Mérou (BulmaGés)

Author: Brian Gough <bjg@gnu.org>

Date: 2008/08/15 14:36:34