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Revision as of 10:46, 3 November 2025
This page is for tracking anything related with the 2026 GNU Guix/Guile conference and hackathon — right before FOSDEM2026 and the Minimalism dev room.
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GNU Guix Days
Annual GNU Guix (un)conference. This event is a FOSDEM 2026 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, january 29+30 2026, the two days before FOSDEM
Coffee at 9:30AM, and starting at 10AM.
Where?
Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICAB) Rue Amedee Lynen 8 1210 Brussels (map), Belgium.
Accessibility
The ICAB is unfortunately not well suited for wheelchairs as there are many steps between rooms though we help where we can.
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 pure “unconference” style, the program will be made by participants as we go, with hands-on sessions organized in sub-groups. Possible session topics:
- GNU Guix status update & road map
- GNU Guix online documentation
- Alternative target architectures (ARM, RISCV, POWER etc.)
- Project governance & facilitation: RFC process, teams, maintenance, release management
- Sustaining our infrastructure: planning to keep qa.guix, data.guix, ci.guix, etc. afloat
- Spritely, Guix, and Guile—the amazing trio!
- Next steps for GSoC paramaterized packages
- Re-imagining the Guix CLI, now with actual forethought and consistency!
- Bootstrapping Guix and bootstrapping languages, where we are and what's needed
- Here's five more rde features I like
- The Romance of Guix (Dob (talk) 14:55, 17 January 2025 (EST))
Add your own topics above!
Code of conduct
Be aware that attendees implicitly abide by the code of conduct as stated by FOSDEM. As this is a FOSDEM fringe event the organizers can be contacted in case of a problem.
How to register?
Add your name below and register for a ticket on the Open Collective Guix Days 2026 Event page.
You can contact the organisers by sending 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.
We also have a Matrix room in case you'd like to come chat with us before the event.
Participants
Don't forget to also register for a ticket.
- Pjotr Prins
- Manolis Ragkousis (Friday only)
- Arun Isaac
- Fabio Natali (fnat)
- Collin Doering
- Ashish SHUKLA
- Christopher Baines
- Simon Tournier
- Samuel Matthiesen
- Peter Polidoro
Registration is closed at 60. Unfortunately the number of seats is limited.
Tickets and Costs
The event costs between €3000 - €3500 Euros to run, so to cover the costs we are ticketing the event. The ticketing is organised through Open Collective on the Guix Days 2026 Event page. There are three levels of ticket:
- The general admission ticket pays for attendance by a single individual.
- Professional ticket €120
- This ticket makes a significant contribution to the the event's costs. Choose this ticket if you're attending in a professional capacity and can justify that attendance as a business, corporate or organisational expense.
- This ticket is for anyone for whom the general ticket is too expensive. We want Guix Days to be accessible to all, just like GNU Guix is.
Each ticket entitles a single person to attend both days of the event. There's tea/coffee provided mid-morning and mid-afternoon and a full lunch. The ticket registration is overseen by the Guix Foundation, please contact Steve or Tanguy through the Open Collective page if there are any problems - we'll be happy to help!
Dinner
Diner was at De Ultieme Hallucinatie.
Sponsors
Please contact us if you would like to sponsor the event.
