David Thompson

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Had a great time at FSF30. Talked to Niibe about GPG and Japan, met DKG (who wore a shirt that said "Dave" which confused me at first), met Gerald Sussman and talked about AI, discussed the future of Guix and Guile with Chris Webber and Mark Weaver over dinner at Veggie Galaxy, saw a Bulgarian folk group sing the Free Software song, saw Andrew Engelbrecht spell "GNU" with his hands, wore the big GNU head, shook RMS' hand, saw Max (whose last name I don't know) from Mexico that I first met at GNU30, helped Georgia stuff her car full of GNU Press gear early in the morning, used the Cheese photobooth with John and Lisa and Andrew and I'm probably forgetting other things. What a day! Here's to many more years of software freedom. Happy hacking, everyone!

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>> David Thompson:

“[...] saw Andrew Engelbrecht make a GNU gang sign with his hands [...]”

How's that? =)

JanKusanagi @identi.ca at 2015-10-04T21:31:46Z

hehe, well maybe that isn't a nice way to put it, so I changed it, but Andrew contorted his fingers in a way that I can't reproduce that spelled "GNU", and it was awesome.

David Thompson at 2015-10-04T21:34:41Z

It seems that you are having a good time!  Enjoy!


Luis at 2015-10-04T22:32:30Z