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<h1>report from GHM 2011</h1>
<p>Debian and GNU have a lot in common: starting from the fact that
<code>strstr()</code> applied to the respective project (full)
names does not return <code>NULL</code>, up to the the common
objective of building a UNIX-like operating system that grants
fundamental software freedoms to its users. That is why I've been
very pleased when the organizers of <a href=
"http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/">GNU Hackers Meeting 2011</a>
(GHM) invited me to attend and <strong>speak about Debian and its
relationships with GNU</strong> at the event. <a href=
"http://upsilon.cc/~zack/talks/2011/20110826-ghm.pdf"><strong>Slides</strong></a>
of my talk are already available, while a video is being encoded
(it will probably show up on both GHM homepage and <a href=
"http://www.irill.org">IRILL</a> website).</p>
<p>Acknowledging the commonalities of goals on both Debian and GNU
sides, we took the chance of this encounter to review <strong>how
each project feel about relationships with the other</strong> (my
original inquiries for the Debian community can be found <a href=
"http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/06/msg00036.html">on
debian-project</a>) and to <strong>talk it over</strong> during a
discussion session scheduled to happen just after my talk.</p>
<p>Yesterday, I've summarized all my notes from GHM 2011 in a
<a href=
"http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/09/msg00004.html"><strong>
report</strong></a> posted to debian-project. Quoting from
there:</p>
<p><q>After this experience, it is striking for me how much we have
in common with GNU (ideally, culturally, socially, etc.) and at the
same time how harsh can our "family battles" become at a times.
Let's avoid that the remaining [few] differences get too much in
the way [of collaboration], especially when that can be easily
avoided.</q></p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>