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?

TH 31st of January and FR 1st of February, 2019. The two days before FOSDEM.

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 will target an audience of Guix developers and users.

Proposed topics for (sub) group discussions are:

GNU Guix road map
GNU Guix online documentation
Mes and bootstrapping
Reproducibility project
Alternative target architectures (ARM etc.)
Developing work flows (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, ...)
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.

Attendees

Ludovic Courtès
Jonathan Brielmaier
Tobias (nckx) Geerinckx-Rice
Julien Lepiller
Chris Webber
Ricardo Wurmus
Pjotr Prins
Manolis Ragkousis
Alex Sassmannshausen
Andy Wingo
Christopher Baines
Gábor Boskovits
Clément Lassieur
Mathieu Othacehe
Pierre Neidhardt
Björn Höfling
Leo Famulari
Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen
Efraim Flashner
Danny Milosavljevic
Mark Meyer
Tobias "Tomoko" Platen
(Marco van Hulten—arriving afternoon of 2nd day)
Laura Lazzati
Mike Gran
Chris Marusich
Jelle Licht
Andreas Enge
Simon Tournier
Amirouche Boubekki
Danny Milosavljevic
Andy Patterson

(add your name above this line)

Costs

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

Proposed talks for the “Minimalistic Languages” track @ FOSDEM 2019

On Saturday 2nd Feb. 2019 Pjotr, Manolis and others are organising a devroom at FOSDEM on "Minimalistic Languages", see programme. There will be a range of great talks and we hope to see you there too!

Below are some talks that may be presented on any of the three days:

- Scheme for interactive fiction: can Guile be as simple as Twine? - Mike Gran

- A Guiler's Year of Racket - Christopher Lemmer Webber

- A Picture Language for Guile - Ricardo Wurmus

- Guile 3 - Andy

- Hacking free software with GNU Guix: A walkthrough of guix package -S, guix environment, guix build --source=... with a little hacking/enhancement of Haunt - Björn

- Porting Guix to POWER9 - Tobias Platen

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