Hopefullest of all SDR communities! After Martin's excellent mail I felt it was time to use the opportunity to not only look back at an exciting GNU Radio year, but also look forward:
I'm convinced 2020 will be an excellent year in terms of progress of FOSS software defined radio, and GNU Radio will continue to play a leading role in that domain. We'll see quite a bit of accelerated development that has been unleashed since we released GNU Radio 3.8; the first sign of that is how VOLK got a new grip on releasing. Just like Martin, I'd like to stress how much the community is what's really great about GNU Radio: If it weren't for the constructive forces at work in the ecosystem as a whole, there would've been little to no interest in improving and using GNU Radio over the years – so please don't let that slip. We're a community built on "let's do this", constructive criticism, a strong sense of responsibility to write sustainable code, people wanting to contribute instead of just profiting of FOSS... With that: ein frohes Neues from Germany, Marcus On Thu, 2019-12-26 at 13:16 -0800, Martin Braun wrote: > Hi all! > > What a year! From a GNU Radio viewpoint, it was the year of the 3.8 > release, that's for sure. It was also the year of the space-themed > GRCon > in Huntsville, AL, the European GNU Radio Days in Besancon, France, > the > year we created package feeds, another year of GSoC... and so many > other > things. > > Many of us have some kind of holiday now, be it Christmas, > end-of-the-year, the Congress, or something else. Maybe some of us > find > time to hack on GNU Radio! There's a lot of signals out there waiting > to > be discovered. > > I would like to thank everyone who was or is involved in GNU Radio > for > their support, contributions, and interest. Every line of code, every > email answered here, helps us push the project forward, and bring > free > signal processing to the masses. The best thing about GNU Radio is > certainly this community (it's not the scheduler :D ) and I really > enjoy > being a part of it. > > Let's see what 2020 has to offer for GNU Radio! And I hope I'll see > many > of you either in real life, or online for more signal processing > hacking. > > Happy Hacking! > > -- Martin >
