This page is for tracking anything related with the 2025 GNU Guix/Guile conference and hackathon — right before FOSDEM2025 and the Minimalism dev room.

GNU Guix Days

Annual GNU Guix (un)conference. This event is a FOSDEM 2025 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 30 and January 31 2025, 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!

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 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. We also have a Matrix room in case you'd like to come chat with us before the event.

Participants

Pjotr Prins
Manolis Ragkoukis
Wilko Meyer
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice (Thu)
Alexey Abramov
Fabio Natali (fnat)
Oleg Bocharov (Sharlatan Hellseher)
Efraim Flashner
Tobias Alexandra Platen
Ludovic Courtès
Bo Svangård (Attending first day, 30/1)
Rutger van Beusekom
Noé Lopez
Collin Doering
Kristoffer Ström
Christine Lemmer-Webber
David Thompson
Jessica Tallon
Juliana Sims
Amy Grinn

(add your name above this line)

the number of seats is limited.

Costs

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

Dinner

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