+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_notes_from_the_2024_LinuxCNC_Norwegian_developer_gathering.html">Some notes from the 2024 LinuxCNC Norwegian developer gathering</a></div>
+ <div class="date">10th July 2024</div>
+ <div class="body"><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>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/linuxcnc">linuxcnc</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
<div class="entry">
<div class="title"><a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_M_ter_vi_liv_eller_d_d____pamfletten_som_inspirerte.html">«Møter vi liv eller død?», pamfletten som inspirerte</a></div>
<div class="date"> 4th June 2024</div>
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- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/VLC_bittorrent_plugin_still_going_strong__new_upload_2_14_4.html">VLC bittorrent plugin still going strong, new upload 2.14-4</a></div>
- <div class="date">31st December 2023</div>
- <div class="body"><p>The other day I uploaded a new version of
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent">the VLC
-bittorrent plugin</a> to Debian, version 2.14-4, to fix a few
-packaging issues. This plugin extend VLC allowing it to stream videos
-directly from a bittorrent source using both torrent files and magnet
-links, as easy as using a HTTP or local file source. I believe such
-protocol support is a vital feature in VLC, allowing efficient
-streaming from sources such at the 11 million movies in
-<a href="https://archive.org/">the Internet Archive</a>. Bittorrent is
-one of the most efficient content distribution protocols on the
-Internet, without centralised control, and should be used more.</p>
-
-<p>The new version is now both in Debian Unstable and Testing, as well
-as Ubuntu. While looking after the package, I decided to ask the VLC
-upstream community if there was any hope to get Bittorrent support
-into the official VLC program, and was very happy to learn that
-someone is already working on it. I hope we can see some fruits of
-that labour next year, but do not hold my breath. In the mean time we
-can use the plugin, which is already
-<a href="https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=vlc-plugin-bittorrent">installed
-by 0.23 percent of the Debian population</a> according to
-popularity-contest. It could use a new upstream release, and I hope
-the upstream developer soon find time to polish it even more.</p>
-
-<p>It is worth noting that the plugin store the downloaded files in
-<tt>~/Downloads/vlc-bittorrent/</tt>, which can quickly fill up the
-user home directory during use. Users of the plugin should keep an
-eye with disk usage when streaming a bittorrent source.</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>
-</div>
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-
-
- Tags: <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/verkidetfri">verkidetfri</a>, <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
-
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