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A list of proposed talks for a GNU Guile/Guix track @FOSDEM 2016

A friendly introduction to GNU Guile and GNU Guix

by ?

Paving a path to greater network freedom

by Christopher Allan Webber

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

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.

Adding Python and Ruby support to GNU Guix

by Dave Thompson, Ricardo Wurmus & Pjotr Prins

We added support fro 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.