Call20200116

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