Announce LinuxCNC gathering 2025.

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+Title: The 2025 LinuxCNC Norwegian developer gathering
+Tags: english, debian, linuxcnc
+Date: 2025-01-11 14:30
+
+<p><a href="https://linuxcnc.org/">The LinuxCNC project</a> is
+trotting along.  And I believe this great software system for
+numerical control of machines such as milling machines, lathes, plasma
+cutters, routers, cutting machines, robots and hexapods, would do even
+better with more in-person developer gatherings, so we plan to
+organise such gathering this summer too.</p>
+
+<p>This year we would like to invite to a small LinuxCNC and free
+software fabrication workshop/gathering in Norway this summer for the
+weekend starting July 4th 2024.  New this year is the slightly larger
+scope, and we invite people also outside the LinuxCNC community to
+join.  As earlier, we suggest to organize it as an
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference">unconference</a>,
+where the participants create the program upon arrival.</p>
+
+<p>The location is a metal workshop 15 minutes drive away from to the
+Gardermoen airport (OSL), where there is a lot of space and a hotel only
+5 minutes away by car. We plan to fire up the barbeque in the evenings.</p>
+
+<p>Please let us know if you would like to join.  We track the list of
+participants on <a href=https://pad.efn.no/p/linuxcnc-2025-norway">a
+simple pad</a>, please add yourself there if you are interested in joining.</p>
+
+<p><a href="https://www.nuugfoundation.no/">The NUUG Foundation</a> has on
+our request offered to handle any money involved with this gathering,
+in other words holding any sponsor funds and paying any bills.
+NUUG Foundation is a spinnoff from the NUUG member organisation here
+in Norway with long ties to the free software and open standards
+communities.</p>
+
+<p>As usual we hope to find sponsors to pay for food, lodging and travel.</p>
+ 
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>