#+TITLE:     GNU Hackers Meeting 2008
#+AUTHOR:    Brian Gough
#+EMAIL:     bjg@gnu.org
#+LANGUAGE:  en
#+TEXT:      A meeting for GNU hackers (maintainers and active contributors) in Bristol (UK), 10-11 July 2008.
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* Summary

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

     + [[http://www.river-valley.tv/conferences/gnu_hackers_2008/][Videos of the talks]] available in Ogg format (thanks to Kaveh
       Bazargan of River Valley for recording the meeting!)
     + [[http://www.espontaneas.com/index/recientes/buscar/gnuhm2008][Some photos]] (thanks to Réné Mérou)
     + Personal reports
         + [[http://retout.co.uk/blog/2008/07/13/gnu-hackers-meeting][Tim Retout]]
         + [[http://understandinglimited.com/2008/07/11/ghm-2008/][Dave Crossland]]
     + [[http://www.briangough.ukfsn.org/ghm2008/report.html][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

Friday

  + 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 [[http://www.fsf.org/][FSF]], 1000 EUR funding from [[http://www.nlnet.nl/][NLnet Foundation]] and $500 from [[http://www.codesourcery.com][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)  

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