GNU Radio Foundation Proposes London-Based Annual GNU Radio Symposium

GNU Radio Foundation president Ben Hilburn has launched a questionnaire to gauge interest in a UK event for GNU Radio users and developers, tentatively titled the GNU Radio Symposium, which would run along with the existing European GNU Radio Days and GNU Radio Conference events.

Originally developed by Eric Blossom and first released in 2001, the open-source GNU Radio software development toolkit has become one of the most popular ways to develop for software defined radio (SDR) platforms for professionals and hobbyists alike. Its growing popularity, though, has caused one small hiccup: its audience is outgrowing its traditional single annual conference, held for the past eight years in the US.

To address this, GNU Radio Foundation president Ben Hilburn has a proposal: an additional event, dubbed the GNU Radio Symposium, to be held in the UK as the third official entry in the GNU Radio conference schedule after the introduction of the European GNU Radio Days earlier this year.

"For the past few years, interest in GNU Radio events outside of the United States has grown," Hilburn explains. "Just as the European GNU Radio Days event is in addition to the annual GNU Radio Conference event held in the USA, the GNU Radio Symposium would also be in addition to an annual event held in the USA. Thus, given enough interest, there will be three annual GNU Radio events."

The proposed event would be held in London, in the spring or early summer starting in 2019 or 2020. Potential attendees can register their interest via the official survey, and also register for more information as and when it becomes available.