This weekend, there’s a hackathon for the GNU FM

software that powers Libre.fm. If you’re interested in

improving the site, please join us on IRC or in person

at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

We’ll be focusing on the new look and feel for the site

this weekend, but now is a good time to get involved if

you have any PHP skills too, as we have plenty of other

interesting things to work on as well.

Five years ago, I had the pleasure to work with the

comedian and author Stephen Fry on a short film about

GNU, which you can watch at:

I’ll be at the event in Cambridge, so stop by and say

hello.

If you can join us in person, check out

or if you’re attending virtually,

we’ll be in #libre.fm on Freenode. Join us using a

standard IRC client (such as XChat) or via your web

browser.

# GNU social news

Our sister project, GNU social (previously known as

StatusNet) will also be in attendance this weekend, and

I’ll be running hackathons for both projects from a

single room.

At GNU 30th, we’ll be launching http://g.nu/ — a GNU

social site for the GNU Project, as well as a couple

other GNU social sites, including one open to the public.

As we roll it out slowly, more details and your

exclusive invite code will be sent to you via email.

# And in other news:

Bytemark Hosting in the UK has stepped up as a new host for Libre.fm and we’ll be moving the site over to their new infrastructure in the coming weeks, including putting our mammoth database onto a series of very fast solid-state drives, which will make things faster for everyone. Thanks to Tim and Matthew at Bytemark for making everything awesome.

Donations for Libre.fm are welcome in a variety of ways,

incluing Flattr and Bitcoins, as well as PayPal:

http://libre.fm/donate.html

You can follow me on Twitter (and soon GNU social) @mattl

Libre.fm and GNU social are also on Twitter: @librefm @gnusocial