GNU Hackers Meeting 2009

An international meeting of GNU hackers (maintainers and active contributors) which took place in Gothenburg (Sweden), 11-13 November 2009.

Sponsors

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

• Free Software Foundation
• Free Software Foundation Europe

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

Videos are available in Ogg Theora format via Bittorrent using the links below.

Small videos are 480x360 (file size 100-400MB), large videos are 640x480 (file size 300MB-1GB). The talks are about 1 hour in length.

• GNU
  • "The GNU Project - past, present and future: organisation, philosophy and technical goals" - José Marchesi.

    (not recorded)

  • "Modularity and Extensibility" - Bruno Haible

    Download: slides, video (small), (large)

    

  • "Improving Savannah" - Sylvain Beucler

    Download: slides, video (small), (large)

    

• Security
  • "Advanced GPG topics" -Werner Koch

    Download: video (small), (large)

    

• Distribution
  • "GNU Source Installer" - Claudio Fontana (Informal demonstration and discussion session)

    (not recorded)

  • "GNU Quality Assurance Project" - Simon Josefsson

    Download: slides, video (small), (large)

    

  • "The Nix Package Manager" - Eelco Dolstra

    Download: slides, video (small), (large)

    

• Dynamic Languages
  • "GNU Smalltalk" - Paolo Bonzini

    Download: slides, video (small), (large)

    

  • "Recent Developments in GNU Guile" (including Guile/Emacs integration) - Andy Wingo

    Download: slides, video (small), (large)

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