GNU Hackers' Meeting

These meetings were held in Europe to get developers to know one another. The meetings were held to overcome inadequacy of email as a primary form of communication among GNU developers.

Among other motivations for the meetings were:

Motivating volunteers to contribute to older programs can be difficult.

What is the role of the GNU project developers after the software has matured?

How should priorities for development be set?

Though programs may be old, they still must be maintained, so volunteerism among developers is still important. Among important ongoing tasks are those of portability.

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