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Agenda

 * GRCon 2020!
 * September 14ff in Charlotte (East coast – well accessible) https://gnuradio.org/grcon/
 * Call for Papers open soon!
 * Two Rounds: First for people who need early confirmation, second for people who can't commit overly soon
 * There will be student registration for full-time students
 * Registration open soon
 * FOSDEM
 * https://fosdem.org in Brussels, Free and Awesome
 * Free Software Radio Devroom Schedule: https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/free_software_radio/
 * Too late to get a talk slot
 * But all talks are recorded and available for free
 * Want to talk to your favourite hackers? We'll have some meetup around FOSDEM. We might be at the Beer event
 * GSoC
 * We're working on our application
 * If we're accepted, we'll be looking for both students and mentors: do get in contact with the mailing list / us
 * Thanks go out to Felix Wunsch as last years org admin, and Sebastian Koslowski for organizing this year
 * We need to groom our ideas list: https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/GSoCIdeas
 * Pulling out VOLK
 * VOLK becomes a "proper" external dependency
 * VOLK Maintainers: Johannes Demel & Michael Dickens
 * as an external dependency, we can't be increasing the minimum version of VOLK that we require on the 3.8.X.X branch (and future releases)
 * just a couple of infrastructure requirements that we need to fix before we proceed with the externalizations
 * GREPs
 * GNU Radio Enhancement Proposals
 * A lot of WIP
 * If you want to do a bigger change, write down in english what direction we'll be going, so please write a GREP: https://github.com/gnuradio/greps
 * Pull Requests
 * A LOT of movement in the last weeks
 * Serious work: 71 PRs in 2020
 * Hard to keep up with, so please do your best that when submitting pull requests! We have Martin do some commented PR merging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnExoTuWG0E
 * Next call: 2020-02-20