Sympa hackathon

Last Saturday was the 20th birthday of Sympa, the mailing list management software.

Marc, who recently took over leadership of the community, organized a hackathon to help define the future of the product. I went there as an external observer and Free Software cheerleader, met a few new people and chatted with the attendees.

Sympa is quite a complex beast because it provides a huge number of features and the codebase is rather old. The interface shows its age too. The team laid plans to rework both the front and backend. Iā€™m particularly looking forward to seeing the mockups from Quentin implemented.