Happy new year! (Was: Happy Christmas/Holidays/End of year!)

[Marcus Müller]

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
>