Group:Guix/FOSDEM2019

This page is for tracking anything related with the 2019 GNU Guix/Guile conference and hackathon on Jan. 31st and Feb. 1st—right before FOSDEM2019 and the minimalistic language devroom.

GNU Guix Days

Annual GNU Guix (un)conference. This event is a FOSDEM 2019 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 31st of January and Friday 1st of February, 2019, 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.

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 that have already been proposed include:

1. GNU Guix road map
2. GNU Guix online documentation
3. Mes and bootstrapping
4. Reproducibility project
5. Alternative target architectures (ARM etc.)
6. Developing workflows (GNU Guix and GNU Workflow Language)
7. Support for D in GNU Guix
8. Demonstration and explanation of The Perfect Setup (Emacs, Geiser, Magit)
9. Demonstration and live-hacking of Next browser + introduction to the code base
10. Better build systems for JVM languages in GNU Guix (support maven, sbt, gradle, ...)
11. Reproducible JDK
12. The GuixSD installer
13. your topic?

Code of conduct

Be aware that attendees implicitely 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

1. Ludovic Courtès
2. Jonathan Brielmaier
3. Tobias (nckx) Geerinckx-Rice
4. Julien Lepiller
5. Chris Webber
6. Ricardo Wurmus
7. Pjotr Prins
8. Manolis Ragkousis
9. Alex Sassmannshausen
10. Andy Wingo
11. Christopher Baines
12. Gábor Boskovits
13. Clément Lassieur
14. Mathieu Othacehe
15. Pierre Neidhardt
16. Björn Höfling
17. Leo Famulari
18. Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen
19. Efraim Flashner
20. Danny Milosavljevic
21. Mark Meyer
22. Tobias "Tomoko" Platen
23. (Marco van Hulten—arriving afternoon of 2nd day)
24. Laura Lazzati
25. Mike Gran
26. Chris Marusich
27. Jelle Licht
28. Andreas Enge
29. Simon Tournier
30. Danny Milosavljevic
31. Andy Patterson
32. Profpatsch
33. Christian Jaeger
34. Matias Jose

(add your name above this line)

Costs

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

Sponsors

• GeneNetwork
• JoyofSource
• Foundation of Guix Europe

Please contact us if you would like to sponsor the event.