Re: GNU hackathon

[Rik]

On 09/11/2013 03:48 AM, address@hidden wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:45:18 -0400
> From: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
> To: octave maintainers mailing list <address@hidden>
> Subject: Octave at the 30th anniversary of GNU celebration
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> The Free Software Foundation is hosting a party and hacking (in the
> traditional sense) event at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts on
> September 28 and 29 to celebrate 30 years of the GNU project.
>
> I'll be attending, doing some work on Octave, and helping anyone else
> who wants to hack Octave.  If you can travel to Boston during the
> meeting, stop by the event and look for me.  Even if you can only
> attend for an hour or two it would be great to meet more Octave users
> and maintainers.
>
> Admission to the event is gratis and it is open to the public but
> please register in advance so the FSF will know how many people will
> be attending.  More info is available here:
>
>    http://www.gnu.org/gnu30/celebration
>
> Sorry about the short notice, but I also wasn't aware of this event
> until last week and didn't know whether I'd be able to attend until
> today.
>
> jwe
9/11/13

Would it be good/fun to have a parallel on-line Octave hackathon for those
who can't make it to Boston?  We haven't done a code sprint or other confab
in a while.

--Rik