From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 12:45:23 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: New post on LinuxCNC gathering.
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+Title: Some notes from the 2024 LinuxCNC Norwegian developer gathering
+Tags: english, debian, linuxcnc
+Date: 2024-07-10 14:45
+
+<p>The Norwegian <a href="https://linuxcnc.org/">The LinuxCNC</a>
+developer gathering 2024 is over.  It was a great and productive
+weekend, and I am sad that it is over.</p>
+
+<p>Regular readers probably still remember what LinuxCNC is, but her
+is a quick summary for those that forgot?  LinuxCNC is a free software
+system for numerical control of machines such as milling machines,
+lathes, plasma cutters, routers, cutting machines, robots and
+hexapods.  It eats G-code and produce motor movement and other changes
+to the physical world, while reading sensor input.</p>
+
+<p>I am not quite sure about the total head count, as not all people
+were present at the gathering the entire weekend, but I believe it was
+close to 10 people showing their faces at the gathering.  The "hard
+core" of the group, who stayed the entire weekend, were two from
+Norway, two from Germany and one from England.  I am happy with the
+outcome from the gathering.  We managed to wrap up a new stable
+LinuxCNC release 2.9.3 and even tested it on real hardware within
+minutes of the release.  The release notes for 2.9.3 are still being
+written, but should show up on on the project site in the next few
+days.  We managed to go through around twenty pull requests and merge
+then into either the stable release (2.9) or the development branch
+(master).  There are still around thirty pull requests left to
+process, so we are not out of work yet.  We even managed to
+fix/improve a slightly worn lathe, and experiment with running a
+mechanical clock using G-code.</p>
+
+<p>The evening barbeque worked well both on Saturday and Sunday.  It
+is quite fun to light up a charcoal grill using compressed air.  Sadly
+the weather was not the best, so we stayed indoors most of the
+time.</p>
+
+<p>This gathering was made possible partly with sponsoring from both
+<a href="https://www.redpill-linpro.com/">Redpill Linpro</a>,
+<a href="https://debian.org/">Debian</a> and
+<a href="https://nuugfoundation.no/">NUUG Foundation</a>, and we are
+most grateful for the support.  I would also like to thank the local
+school for lending us some furniture, and of course the rest of the
+members of the organizers team, Asle and Bosse, for their countless
+contributions.  The gathering was such success that we want to do it
+again next year.</p>
+
+<p>We plan to organize the next Norwegian LinuxCNC developer gathering
+at the end of June next year, the weekend Friday 27th to Sunday 29th
+of June 2025.  I recommend you reserve the dates on your calendar
+today.  Other related communities are also welcome to join in, for
+example those working on systems like FreeCAD and opencamlib, as I am
+sure we have much in common and sharing experiences would be very
+useful to all involved.  We are of course looking for sponsors for
+this gathering already.  The total budget for this gathering was
+around NOK 25.000 (around EUR 2.300), so our needs are quite modest.
+Perhaps a machine or tools company would like to help out the free
+software manufacturing community by sponsoring food, lodging and
+transport for such gathering?</p>