GNU Hackers Meeting 2009

An international meeting for GNU hackers (maintainers and active contributors) in Gothenburg (Sweden), 11-13 November 2009 and jointly with FSCONS 14-15 Nov.

Date and Location

The meeting took place on Wed 11 - Fri 13 November 2009 (GHM) and Sat 14 - Sun 15 (FSCONS) in Gothenburg, Sweden at the IT University.

The meeting was held during the three days prior to the FSCONS free software conference (organised by FSF Europe, Creative Commons and Wikimedia).

Sponsors

Thanks to our sponsors for their financial support for the meeting:

Participants

  • Henrik Sandklef (GNU Xnee) - local organizer (FSCONS)
  • Werner Koch (GnuPG)
  • Paolo Bonzini (GNU Smalltalk)
  • Jose E. Marchesi (GNU PDF)
  • Andy Wingo (GNU Guile)
  • Alfred M. Szmidt (HURD, glibc, inetutils)
  • Bruno Haible (GNU gnulib, GNU libunistring)
  • Brian Gough (GNU Scientific Library)
  • Viktor Lindberg (Free Social Networking)
  • Nacho Gonzalez (GNU Chapters system administration)
  • Luca Saiu (GNU Epsilon)
  • Ludovic Courtès (GNU Guile)
  • Eelco Dolstra (Nix Package Manager)
  • Sylvain Beucler (Savannah)
  • Juan Pedro Bolívar Puente (GNU Jump, GNU Psychosynth)
  • Grégoire Détrez (INRIA)
  • Simon Josefsson (GNU TLS)
  • Claudio Fontana (GNU Source Installer)
  • Patrik Lembke (gNewSense)
  • Lowe Schmidt

Program

The theme of the meeting was the continued advancement of the GNU system. We wanted to encourage discussion and talks on the following topics:

  • New challenges for software freedom and the GNU system
  • Technical goals for the future
  • Organisational development

Talks

  • "The GNU Project - past, present and future: organisation, philosophy and technical goals" - José Marchesi.
  • "Modularity and Extensibility" - Bruno Haible
  • "Improving Savannah" - Sylvain Beucler
  • "Recent Developments in GNU Guile" (including Guile/Emacs integration) - Andy Wingo
  • "The Nix Package Manager" - Eelco Dolstra
  • Automated build systems and Source Installer - Claudio Fontana (Informal demonstration and discussion session)
  • "Advanced GPG topics - Design goals, gpg-agent, the smartcard framework, and X.509/CMS" - Werner Koch (Thursday/Friday)
  • "GNU TLS" / "GNU Quality Assurance Project" - Simon Josefsson (Thursday/Friday)
  • "GNU Smalltalk" - Paolo Bonzini (Friday)

Further information

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