From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Mike Gran" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.comp.gnu.guix.devel Subject: Re: FOSDEM 2019 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:08:46 -0700 Message-ID: <20180823000846.GA8978@joshua.dnsalias.com> References: <6159e90a-b5d9-026e-24de-ea7d897f0ed0@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534982825 25879 195.159.176.226 (23 Aug 2018 00:07:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 00:07:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Cc: guile-devel , Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= , me@tobias.gr, guix-devel , wingo@pobox.com, Pjotr Prins To: Manolis Ragkousis Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 23 02:07:01 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fsd9Q-0006ZN-Fu for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 02:07:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33118 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsdBW-0005gJ-JM for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:09:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57659) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsdBK-0005eH-62 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:08:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsdBG-0005jY-Pw for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:08:58 -0400 Original-Received: from sonic303-22.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com ([66.163.188.148]:42372) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsdBG-0005eo-2H for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:08:54 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s2048; t=1534982931; bh=GodvfBLymF25Hv6wI2KjmxVGJq4C0XyCSL4hdsdEsHU=; h=From:Date:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From:Subject; b=MjeHw0Gz3gyuJW8hrM6Z4PaF1TvX9Bl0XRbzHFQ+8agU/VyWJ8IEMKEqaDprG3nFs+cm7cjui0p1XX/qpSOauA5H39ln6v+nVr65KgXOyvNKjhqwaCaVTrINUcnYbmud/oPZcVDrH65w9GDU1Qy1lDnsDgCC2UVpsH3HESVHByW/ki2EDToMkGKwt59csGB8XLqARyUDhwhyUaxl6hDvqkBgV1zRTFj4SiSp8wWttnOGmvoEEu65xosB5ytE/5EbskFJ38QhAH6fNNt6kbSDN1A1Pv/4g5bayWW4DudWwKbDzsxg51BJChBpODH74iGuSzKb+EaSt1kJZig0z55gmQ== X-YMail-OSG: 0.QxhYMVM1mgECkCQx06N9hkjM49f5c55llpQ7xdRKnuTXFNKe1tr12TTzm4u_. 9K2qFpd6ohxvdp37UBz_yuWCRQk1oGixmOeA8Op23ykkse0h7LdLwvpJyEGBVqMy_ZpOI3mZGvqg yMefsY2lu740Mtd8Yg6ApHNQq0MZ6yIMNI9K6M6bBzf8qZfEZDubyxbLqZLkOo5gc0n35lvu2QMc d8CxC_6eiKvcqT1kOGGhcnbCb1ob8.Nb4NYLIJUBv1ZnLvCci.YvtqFj03oMin7LWmff9h5xSSdi .Ulf_UmIDPXfGZvpfiEHY04RjyEgAmQhrs7BAcMmqf1pMmkVxzn60n.QOf2xr_U.p2NMmXns5XjF O.K_uT9ydbFhqzEKwodCpM35lRotzurI9NQtQM5_uUA9L3p9nSFy14xfpdztORNG9VgxOMUtRgVi Eq6yy3oFZYJligzA_xXyM7IljKHiirHM79JOQ1jjxaOKytO2Em3L4nqXq6pqrlfjbMrHdNw.z_0u VPzXQCuO3Sr0_o4X8P8tfX.n9nuXDRDbfuP.A6A9VNGBFgNDNy4oi0EaKt0N2pB.RDnD3G5YHJJ3 zN0ALvAGXYf5WwI2FJ8XEuzQtM3cQvT.rgge.JcQJkSRFHaVir_qPzPtR0C89m7zZz_CZKWNkGoQ uiEaFQW.l8LI3OY_Grn.YQ6wnVqlnmFrMHKGNDZev0RdhsdPC2jiTNkt7Dv5TMWcawKEu95uU.9_ 6.jHkWWqjGYZkzy0bMm8JeV1rq.sVrg2VEfNRLSoiDtX7vJ7WnwH0fQxnQzJpGUrJfuvmNxjbJ0k zCdS8yWh_1zSga_K2C.N4xqzFNw_doriB9ug0LdRQa Original-Received: from sonic.gate.mail.ne1.yahoo.com by sonic303.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with HTTP; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 00:08:51 +0000 Original-Received: from 162-197-224-133.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net (EHLO joshua.spikycactus.dnsalias.com) ([162.197.224.133]) by smtp424.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (Oath Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID 5151339b7d178dc05a446d73b42782f1; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 00:08:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: by joshua.spikycactus.dnsalias.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:08:46 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6159e90a-b5d9-026e-24de-ea7d897f0ed0@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 66.163.188.148 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:19628 gmane.comp.gnu.guix.devel:43681 Archived-At: On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 04:33:53PM +0300, Manolis Ragkousis wrote: > Hello everyone, > > It's that time of the year again we need to start organizing about > FOSDEM. We have a deadline for the 20th of September[1] to apply for a > devroom. We also need to start looking for a place for this year's > fringe event! Hi. In your list, you mention "encouraging newbies" and "encouraging diversity". In that category, I could do a talk on my experiments in writing interactive fiction in Scheme. Interactive fiction tools like Twine have been a first step for many young programmers, and tools like Twine have been adopted by many young LGBT authors. If we could make the syntax simple and obvious enough, maybe an interactive fiction tool in Guile could be useful. But the technical challenge of making a simple tool has been surprisingly complicated in interesting ways. I went ahead and threw that up on the libreplanet wiki for now Regards, Mike Gran