This page is for tracking anything related with the 2020 GNU Guix/Guile conference and hackathon on Jan. 30th and 31st—right before FOSDEM2020 and the Minimalistic, Experimental and Emerging Languages devroom and the original application minimalistic language devroom.

GNU Guix Days

Annual GNU Guix (un)conference. This event is a FOSDEM 2020 fringe event.

Why?

GNU Guix is growing rapidly and has gone from a software packaging system to a full tool stack aimed at reproducible software deployment and development. GNU Guix is a toolkit that allows developers to integrate reproducible software deployment into their applications—as opposed to leaving it up to the user. GNU Guix is based on the GNU Guile programming language which makes it a very versatile and hackable (in the good sense) environment.

When?

Thursday 30th and Friday 31st of January, 2020, the two days before FOSDEM.

Starting at 9:30AM.

Where?

Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICAB) Rue Amedee Lynen 8 1210 Brussels (map), Belgium.

Programme

We will have some talks in the morning and hacking and discussions the rest of the day. Two days of GNU Guix bliss.

The event targets an audience of Guix developers and users.

In the morning the following presentations are planned:

Guix State of the Union by Ludovic Courtès + Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Guix Data Service by Christopher Baines
Bootstrapping Intro by Jan Nieuwenhuizen

In pure “unconference” style, the rest of the program will be made by participants as we go, with hands-on sessions organized in sub-groups. Possible session topics that have already been proposed include:

GNU Guix road map
GNU Guix online documentation
Mes and bootstrapping
Reproducibility project
Alternative target architectures (ARM, POWER etc.)
Developing workflows (GNU Guix and GNU Workflow Language)
Support for D in GNU Guix
Demonstration and explanation of The Perfect Setup (Emacs, Geiser, Magit)
Demonstration and live-hacking of Next browser + introduction to the code base
Better build systems for JVM languages in GNU Guix (support Maven, sbt, Gradle, ...)
Reproducible JDK
The Guix System installer
Improve PHP
your topic?

Code of conduct

Be aware that attendees implicitly abide by the code of conduct as stated by FOSDEM.

How to register?

Add your name here and/or send a message to Manolis <manolis837@gmail.com> or Pjotr <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>. Please email us if you would need on-site childcare to be able to attend.

Note: there is a maximum of 40 participants.

Participants

Ludovic Courtès
Pjotr Prins
Manolis Ragkousis
Efraim Flashner
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice (9 to 5, ish)
Christopher Baines
Gábor Boskovits
Andreas Enge
Simon Tournier
Nicolò Balzarotti
Chris Marusich
Jonathan Brielmaier
Danny Milosavljevic
Carl Dong
Pierre Neidhardt
janneke (Jan) Nieuwenhuizen
Martin Becze
Mark Wielaard (Thursday afternoon and Friday)
Tom Tromey
Bengt Richter
Ioanna Dimitriou
Joshua Wirtz
Jelle Licht
Mathieu Othacehe (only Friday)
Jonathan Frederickson
Lex Withofs
Laura Lazzati
Paul Garlick (Friday)
Jonathan McHugh
Lars-Dominik Braun
Pablo Greco (only Thursday)
Robert Smith
Jérémy Korwin (only Friday)
Ivan Vilata i Balaguer (only Friday)
Tobias Platen (only Friday)

(add your name above this line)

Costs

Attendance is free. We will ask a voluntary contribution for consumptions.

Dinner

Thursday: Xu-Ji
Friday: ? (proposal: Santorini, map)

Navigation menu

Group: Guix/FOSDEM2020

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