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  10                 <title>Some notes from the 2024 LinuxCNC Norwegian developer gathering</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 14:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The Norwegian &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxcnc.org/&quot;&gt;The LinuxCNC&lt;/a&gt;
  15 developer gathering 2024 is over.  It was a great and productive
  16 weekend, and I am sad that it is over.&lt;/p&gt;
  17
  18 &lt;p&gt;Regular readers probably still remember what LinuxCNC is, but her
  19 is a quick summary for those that forgot?  LinuxCNC is a free software
  20 system for numerical control of machines such as milling machines,
  21 lathes, plasma cutters, routers, cutting machines, robots and
  22 hexapods.  It eats G-code and produce motor movement and other changes
  23 to the physical world, while reading sensor input.&lt;/p&gt;
  24
  25 &lt;p&gt;I am not quite sure about the total head count, as not all people
  26 were present at the gathering the entire weekend, but I believe it was
  27 close to 10 people showing their faces at the gathering.  The &quot;hard
  28 core&quot; of the group, who stayed the entire weekend, were two from
  29 Norway, two from Germany and one from England.  I am happy with the
  30 outcome from the gathering.  We managed to wrap up a new stable
  31 LinuxCNC release 2.9.3 and even tested it on real hardware within
  32 minutes of the release.  The release notes for 2.9.3 are still being
  33 written, but should show up on on the project site in the next few
  34 days.  We managed to go through around twenty pull requests and merge
  35 then into either the stable release (2.9) or the development branch
  36 (master).  There are still around thirty pull requests left to
  37 process, so we are not out of work yet.  We even managed to
  38 fix/improve a slightly worn lathe, and experiment with running a
  39 mechanical clock using G-code.&lt;/p&gt;
  40
  41 &lt;p&gt;The evening barbeque worked well both on Saturday and Sunday.  It
  42 is quite fun to light up a charcoal grill using compressed air.  Sadly
  43 the weather was not the best, so we stayed indoors most of the
  44 time.&lt;/p&gt;
  45
  46 &lt;p&gt;This gathering was made possible partly with sponsoring from both
  47 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.redpill-linpro.com/&quot;&gt;Redpill Linpro&lt;/a&gt;,
  48 &lt;a href=&quot;https://debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; and
  49 &lt;a href=&quot;https://nuugfoundation.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG Foundation&lt;/a&gt;, and we are
  50 most grateful for the support.  I would also like to thank the local
  51 school for lending us some furniture, and of course the rest of the
  52 members of the organizers team, Asle and Bosse, for their countless
  53 contributions.  The gathering was such success that we want to do it
  54 again next year.&lt;/p&gt;
  55
  56 &lt;p&gt;We plan to organize the next Norwegian LinuxCNC developer gathering
  57 at the end of June next year, the weekend Friday 27th to Sunday 29th
  58 of June 2025.  I recommend you reserve the dates on your calendar
  59 today.  Other related communities are also welcome to join in, for
  60 example those working on systems like FreeCAD and opencamlib, as I am
  61 sure we have much in common and sharing experiences would be very
  62 useful to all involved.  We are of course looking for sponsors for
  63 this gathering already.  The total budget for this gathering was
  64 around NOK 25.000 (around EUR 2.300), so our needs are quite modest.
  65 Perhaps a machine or tools company would like to help out the free
  66 software manufacturing community by sponsoring food, lodging and
  67 transport for such gathering?&lt;/p&gt;
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