I submitted a talk about GNU Savannah for the upcoming LP and it was accepted!
Yay - gulp <g> The full outline submitted is below and, as you will see, I've included a section on the history of GNU Savannah. Which I know very, very little about. Help? I'd be grateful for any stories, links, and perspective you would be able to share to give a summary history of the Savannah project. Also, in case anyone might be interested in being a co-presenter with me, I also have this idea that a few of us could work together to give this talk. One approach to that could be breaking the outline up among us, and then each of participating can give a first person account of volunteering for Savannah while providing the overview/detail points "assigned". Any other Savannah Hackers interested in co-presenting an introduction to GNU Savannah at LP 2024? Here's the outline (formatting is for org, if you happen to be an Emacs user): #+TITLE: Hosting Freedom - A Behind-the-Scenes Tour with the Savannah Hackers #+AUTHOR: Corwin Brust <cor...@bru.st?> #+SETUPFILE: https://fniessen.github.io/org-html-themes/org/theme-readtheorg.setup #+COPYRIGHT: Copyright 2023 Corwin Brust <cor...@bru.st> #+LICENSE: CC-BY-SA *Hosting Freedom: A Behind-the-Scenes Tour with the Savannah Hackers* # introduction Wait. GNU/FSF hosts a forge? What's a forge? Who are these hackers? Will there be a quiz later? In this 30 minute talk we'll answer these questions and raises others as we introduce an often overlooked Free Software development resource and the "smiling faces" behind it. * Into the Savannah: FORGE! Introducing Savannah, the concept of "Software Forges", and the Savannah Hackers by way of a brief history of the Savannah project focusing on who, when, and why. (5m) * Who and What is Savannah For? Introducing the GNU project organizational philosophies and relating them to the role of Savannah in creating and promoting Free Software. (5m) * What Does Savannah Do? Introducing the capabilities of Savannah from an end user (maintainer, contributer) perspective. (5m) * How Does Savannah Work? Introducing the architecture of the GNU/FSF network in terms of the capabilities described in the prior section. (10m) * Getting Involved Inviting YOU to become a Savannah Hacker! (5m) * About the Presenter Corwin Brust joined the Savannah Hackers in 2020. He completed his apprenticeship in 2023. He is also a core organizer for EmacsConf and a volunteer for GNU Emacs. His rarely updated blog, where he writes mostly about Emacs, is [[https://corwin.bru.st][corwin.bru.st]]. You can reach him by sending email to [[mailto:cor...@bru.st][cor...@gnu.org]] or in #savannah on [[https://libera.chat]] IRC.
