The buzz surrounding Gaffer was pretty solid at Siggraph this year, thanks in part to our Gaffer paper, published and presented at DigiPro.
If you're unfamiliar with DigiPro, its a co-located
From: DigiPro '16 Proceedings of the Symposium on Digital Production, 2016.
Gaffer: An open-source application framework for VFX
Source: The Association for Computing Machinery