Group: Guix/TalkProposals

A list of proposed talks for a GNU Guile/Guix track @FOSDEM 2017

A friendly introduction to GNU Guile and GNU Guix

by Ricardo Wurmus

Guile programming and optimisations

by Andy Wingo

Network freedom live at the REPL

by Christopher Allan Webber

Much has happened over the last year in terms of advancing network freedom both within and external to Guile. We'll see a live demonstration of Pubstrate, a federated social networking toolkit as well as reference implementation for [ActivityPub https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ ActivityPub] and ActivityStreams, written in and for GNU Guile.

Asynchronous programming has also gotten much more interesting in the last year for Guile hackers, with improvements in Guile core and new libraries such as 8sync, A-Sync, and Fibers. An overview of these systems will be given, as well as suggestions on how you can get hacking towards liberating network users today!

Adding GNU/Hurd support to GNU Guix and GuixSD

by Manolis Ragkousis

GNU Guix can successfully cross-build any package for the Hurd and produce the bootstrap-tarballs to build packages with Guix natively on such a system. It can also build and deploy a GuixSD image from a Debian/Hurd system.

Game programming with GNU Guile

by David Thompson

Programming language support in GNU Guix

by Pjotr Prins

Virtual environments and targets such as CONDA in GNU Guix

by Pjotr Prins

Latest Guile developments

by Andy Wingo

Latest GNU Guix developments

by Ludovic Courtès

Getting started with guile-wiredtiger

by Amirouche Boubekki (amz3)

wiredtiger is a NoSQL database engine. Often dubbed key/value store, we will see that indeed it can be used like leveldb, bsddb or GNU dbm as a simple (ordered) hashmap but also as a (performant) framework for data persistence that can replace your favorite SQL queries with Scheme goodness (and pieces of minikanren).

Proposed talks for a GNU Guile/Guix track @FOSDEM 2016

Consider this bit an archive! For the actual talks see FOSDEM 2016

A friendly introduction to GNU Guile and GNU Guix

by Ricardo Wurmus

Paving a path to greater network freedom

by Christopher Allan Webber

How can Guix and Guile participate in increasing network freedom? Discussions include leveraging Guix to make server deployment and maintainance a better experience, as well as ideas in how Guile could provide leadership in web development and federation.

The Guile community we could have (Or: solving Worse is More Accessible)

by Christopher Allan Webber

Expanding on this email, an exploration of how we could grow Guile into a more diverse community while leveraging its existing strengths. Examinations will be made of what has and hasn't worked for similar language and programming communities.

Latest Guile developments

by Andy Wingo

Latest GNU Guix developments

by Ludovic Courtès

GNU Guix is the package manager for the GNU project. It is based on Guile and in this talk I am going to present gexps and related APIs

Adding GNU/Hurd support to GNU Guix and GuixSD

by Manolis Ragkousis

GNU Guix can successfully cross-build any package for the Hurd and produce the bootstrap-tarballs to build packages with Guix natively on such a system. It can also build and deploy a GuixSD image from a Debian/Hurd system.

Adding Python and Ruby support to GNU Guix

by Dave Thompson & Pjotr Prins

We added support for Python and Ruby packages to GNU Guix. We think the process of adding them is interesting for others who would like to support their language and or software stack.

GNUNet publishing of Guix using Guile

by Remy

As a GSoC project GNUNet support was added.

Adding reproducible bioinformatics pipeline support to GNU Guix

by Ricardo Wurmus & Pjotr Prins

Bioinformatics requires rapid turn around times in software packaging. This leads to many ad hoc installations which lead to hard to maintain systems and little chance of reproducibility. In this talk we will discuss software dependency graphs and explain why GNU Guix lends itself to deploying reproducible bioninformatics pipelines.