FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

[Pjotr Prins]

# GNU Guile devroom call for talks @FOSDEM 2016 

For the first time ever, we have a GNU Guile devroom at FOSDEM on January 30,
2016. The call for talk proposals is open! Important members of the GNU Guile
and GNU Guix community will attend. We are excited because FOSDEM is one of the
most important free software conferences and is hosted annually at [Université libre de
Bruxelles in Brussels,
Belgium](https://fosdem.org/2016/practical/transportation/); the devroom will
host up to 80 people.

Submissions for talks are due on November 30, 2015. 

## Topics

GNU Guile is the preferred extension system for the GNU Project which
features an implementation of the Scheme programming language, a dialect of
Lisp. Especially technical talks are invited on topics concerning GNU Guile and
applications that use Guile (such as GNU Guix, Lilypond and Gnucash). In the
talks both experienced Guile programmers and newbies should be addressed.
FOSDEM is a great opportunity to attract people interested in GNU Guile and
Lisp. Examples of (already proposed) talks could be

- Guile programming:
  + functors and monads in Guile
  + composable continuations in Guile
  + POSIX programming in Guile and the FFI
- Web frameworks with GNU Guile
- GNU Guix:
  + GNU/Hurd support in Guix
  + R, Perl, Python and Ruby support in GNU Guix
  + Reproducible pipelines for Guix
  + Guix environments (VM, containers etc.)
- Guile and the network:
  + Software distribution using GNUnet
  + Paving a path to greater network freedom using Guix and Guile

## Submit talk

Feel free to submit your own topic or even run with one of these.  The
most interesting talks will be selected.  Talks are 15 or 30 minutes
(including Q&A; please notify in the application your preference) on
GNU Guile related projects.

Please note that presenting at FOSDEM implies giving permission to be
recorded. The recordings will be published under the same licence as
all FOSDEM content (CC-BY).

Submit your proposal here: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16

If you submitted a talk to a previous FOSDEM, you should already have
an account, so make sure that you log in with your existing account.
You should only need to create an account if you have not submitted a
talk to FOSDEM in recent years.  After you have your account
configured (you will receive a confirmation email), create the event,
and click on "Show all" in the top right corner to diplay the full
form. When submitting your talk make doubly sure to select "GNU Guile
devroom" as track, and include the following information:

  * The title and subtitle of your talk
  * A short abstract of one paragraph
  * A longer description if you wish to do so
  * Links to related websites/blogs etc

Re: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

[Pjotr Prins]

Anyone here involved with other Guile projects such as Gnucash and
LilyPond? Can you E-mail me privately that you have seen the call for
talks and that your project is aware? 

I am going to E-mail individual projects too - anyone know of projects
not listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guile

We want to make the Guile devroom amazing :)

Thanks,

Pj.

Re: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

[David Pirotte]

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Pjotr,

> Anyone here involved with other Guile projects such as Gnucash and
> LilyPond? Can you E-mail me privately that you have seen the call for
> talks and that your project is aware? 
> ...

Better posting both the call for talks/papers  and this email invitation  to
lilypond-devel@gnu.org and/or lilypond-user@gnu.org I think

my 2c

Cheers,
David

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Re: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

[neil]

Hi there! 

I'm not yet sure if I'm coming to FOSDEM; but if I am... I could potentially do a talk about how I've used Guile in my GTA04 phone experimentation - which means a combination of web server code and integration with dbus, oFono, connman and the enlightenment libraries. 

Does that sound interesting? 

Regards, 
      Neil 


  Original Message  
From: Pjotr Prins
Sent: Saturday, 31 October 2015 09:44
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

# GNU Guile devroom call for talks @FOSDEM 2016 

For the first time ever, we have a GNU Guile devroom at FOSDEM on January 30,
2016. The call for talk proposals is open! Important members of the GNU Guile
and GNU Guix community will attend. We are excited because FOSDEM is one of the
most important free software conferences and is hosted annually at [Université libre de
Bruxelles in Brussels,
Belgium](https://fosdem.org/2016/practical/transportation/); the devroom will
host up to 80 people.

Submissions for talks are due on November 30, 2015. 

## Topics

GNU Guile is the preferred extension system for the GNU Project which
features an implementation of the Scheme programming language, a dialect of
Lisp. Especially technical talks are invited on topics concerning GNU Guile and
applications that use Guile (such as GNU Guix, Lilypond and Gnucash). In the
talks both experienced Guile programmers and newbies should be addressed.
FOSDEM is a great opportunity to attract people interested in GNU Guile and
Lisp. Examples of (already proposed) talks could be

- Guile programming:
+ functors and monads in Guile
+ composable continuations in Guile
+ POSIX programming in Guile and the FFI
- Web frameworks with GNU Guile
- GNU Guix:
+ GNU/Hurd support in Guix
+ R, Perl, Python and Ruby support in GNU Guix
+ Reproducible pipelines for Guix
+ Guix environments (VM, containers etc.)
- Guile and the network:
+ Software distribution using GNUnet
+ Paving a path to greater network freedom using Guix and Guile

## Submit talk

Feel free to submit your own topic or even run with one of these. The
most interesting talks will be selected. Talks are 15 or 30 minutes
(including Q&A; please notify in the application your preference) on
GNU Guile related projects.

Please note that presenting at FOSDEM implies giving permission to be
recorded. The recordings will be published under the same licence as
all FOSDEM content (CC-BY).

Submit your proposal here: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16

If you submitted a talk to a previous FOSDEM, you should already have
an account, so make sure that you log in with your existing account.
You should only need to create an account if you have not submitted a
talk to FOSDEM in recent years. After you have your account
configured (you will receive a confirmation email), create the event,
and click on "Show all" in the top right corner to diplay the full
form. When submitting your talk make doubly sure to select "GNU Guile
devroom" as track, and include the following information:

* The title and subtitle of your talk
* A short abstract of one paragraph
* A longer description if you wish to do so
* Links to related websites/blogs etc

Re: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Hi Neil,

From my perspective I think that sounds super interesting — I would say
if you can confirm that you're going to be there, then you should
definitely submit a proposal; the worst that would happen is that we
have too many proposals — and that would really be more of a luxury
problem :-)

Best wishes,
Alex

neil@ossau.homelinux.net writes:

> Hi there!
>
> I'm not yet sure if I'm coming to FOSDEM; but if I am... I could potentially do a talk about how I've used Guile in my GTA04 phone experimentation - which means a combination of web server code and integration with dbus, oFono, connman and the enlightenment libraries.
>
> Does that sound interesting?
>
> Regards,
>    Neil
>
>
>  Original Message 
> From: Pjotr Prins
> Sent: Saturday, 31 October 2015 09:44
> To: guile-user@gnu.org
> Subject: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks
>
> # GNU Guile devroom call for talks @FOSDEM 2016 
>
> For the first time ever, we have a GNU Guile devroom at FOSDEM on January 30,
> 2016. The call for talk proposals is open! Important members of the GNU Guile
> and GNU Guix community will attend. We are excited because FOSDEM is one of the
> most important free software conferences and is hosted annually at [Université libre de
> Bruxelles in Brussels,
> Belgium](https://fosdem.org/2016/practical/transportation/); the devroom will
> host up to 80 people.
>
> Submissions for talks are due on November 30, 2015. 
>
> ## Topics
>
> GNU Guile is the preferred extension system for the GNU Project which
> features an implementation of the Scheme programming language, a dialect of
> Lisp. Especially technical talks are invited on topics concerning GNU Guile and
> applications that use Guile (such as GNU Guix, Lilypond and Gnucash). In the
> talks both experienced Guile programmers and newbies should be addressed.
> FOSDEM is a great opportunity to attract people interested in GNU Guile and
> Lisp. Examples of (already proposed) talks could be
>
> - Guile programming:
> + functors and monads in Guile
> + composable continuations in Guile
> + POSIX programming in Guile and the FFI
> - Web frameworks with GNU Guile
> - GNU Guix:
> + GNU/Hurd support in Guix
> + R, Perl, Python and Ruby support in GNU Guix
> + Reproducible pipelines for Guix
> + Guix environments (VM, containers etc.)
> - Guile and the network:
> + Software distribution using GNUnet
> + Paving a path to greater network freedom using Guix and Guile
>
> ## Submit talk
>
> Feel free to submit your own topic or even run with one of these. The
> most interesting talks will be selected. Talks are 15 or 30 minutes
> (including Q&A; please notify in the application your preference) on
> GNU Guile related projects.
>
> Please note that presenting at FOSDEM implies giving permission to be
> recorded. The recordings will be published under the same licence as
> all FOSDEM content (CC-BY).
>
> Submit your proposal here: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16
>
> If you submitted a talk to a previous FOSDEM, you should already have
> an account, so make sure that you log in with your existing account.
> You should only need to create an account if you have not submitted a
> talk to FOSDEM in recent years. After you have your account
> configured (you will receive a confirmation email), create the event,
> and click on "Show all" in the top right corner to diplay the full
> form. When submitting your talk make doubly sure to select "GNU Guile
> devroom" as track, and include the following information:
>
> * The title and subtitle of your talk
> * A short abstract of one paragraph
> * A longer description if you wish to do so
> * Links to related websites/blogs etc

Re: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> skribis:

> From my perspective I think that sounds super interesting — I would say
> if you can confirm that you're going to be there, then you should
> definitely submit a proposal; the worst that would happen is that we
> have too many proposals — and that would really be more of a luxury
> problem :-)

Seconded.  And it would be great to meet there, Neil!  :-)

Ludo’.

Re: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Unfortunately, I had put up a couple of talk proposals on the wiki, but
things have happened between now and then, and I'm not sure if I can
manage to budget the time / funds to make that trip.  I really wish I
could go... this is the #1 devroom for me this year!

To anyone else who can make it, I'm sure you're going to have a great
time!  Wish I could be there!

 - Chris

Re: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

[Pjotr Prins]

I have spend some time locating Guile projects and mailing the authors
today. The Gnucash people are responding. 

The problem here is that not everyone reads this list and
finding/subscribing is a lot of work.

I want to ask everyone here to forward the following to anyone you
know who is writing software in Guile.

-----8<-----------------------------------------------------------------

Dear XXX,

We have a devroom at FOSDEM this year (one of the most important FOSS
conferences).

Do you know anyone who could do a talk on one of your Guile projects by
submitting one paragraph description to
https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16/?

It would be great if you could make it. 

-----8<-----------------------------------------------------------------

Maybe we find people this way who would not be aware otherwise and
fill the devroom with people and talks.

Pj.


On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 03:33:10PM -0200, David Pirotte wrote:
> Pjotr,
> 
> > Anyone here involved with other Guile projects such as Gnucash and
> > LilyPond? Can you E-mail me privately that you have seen the call for
> > talks and that your project is aware? 
> > ...
> 
> Better posting both the call for talks/papers  and this email invitation  to
> lilypond-devel@gnu.org and/or lilypond-user@gnu.org I think
> 
> my 2c
> 
> Cheers,
> David



-- 

Re: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

[Pjotr Prins]

Who, btw, did the integration of Guile in GNU Make and gdb? Anyone
know?

Pj.

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 01:19:45AM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> I have spend some time locating Guile projects and mailing the authors
> today. The Gnucash people are responding. 
> 
> The problem here is that not everyone reads this list and
> finding/subscribing is a lot of work.
> 
> I want to ask everyone here to forward the following to anyone you
> know who is writing software in Guile.
> 
> -----8<-----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Dear XXX,
> 
> We have a devroom at FOSDEM this year (one of the most important FOSS
> conferences).
> 
> Do you know anyone who could do a talk on one of your Guile projects by
> submitting one paragraph description to
> https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16/?
> 
> It would be great if you could make it. 
> 
> -----8<-----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Maybe we find people this way who would not be aware otherwise and
> fill the devroom with people and talks.
> 
> Pj.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 03:33:10PM -0200, David Pirotte wrote:
> > Pjotr,
> > 
> > > Anyone here involved with other Guile projects such as Gnucash and
> > > LilyPond? Can you E-mail me privately that you have seen the call for
> > > talks and that your project is aware? 
> > > ...
> > 
> > Better posting both the call for talks/papers  and this email invitation  to
> > lilypond-devel@gnu.org and/or lilypond-user@gnu.org I think
> > 
> > my 2c
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > David
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 

-- 

RE: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

[Neil Jerram]

Thanks, Alex and Ludo!

Pjotr, I've made my submission now - please could you check if it looks correctly done?  (I've never done a FOSDEM submission before...)

Thanks,
	Neil


-----Original Message-----
From: guile-user-bounces+neil=ossau.homelinux.net@gnu.org [mailto:guile-user-bounces+neil=ossau.homelinux.net@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Ludovic "Courtès"
Sent: 06 November 2015 18:11
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> skribis:

> From my perspective I think that sounds super interesting — I would 
> say if you can confirm that you're going to be there, then you should 
> definitely submit a proposal; the worst that would happen is that we 
> have too many proposals — and that would really be more of a luxury 
> problem :-)

Seconded.  And it would be great to meet there, Neil!  :-)

Ludo’.

Re: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Christopher Allan Webber writes:

> Unfortunately, I had put up a couple of talk proposals on the wiki, but
> things have happened between now and then, and I'm not sure if I can
> manage to budget the time / funds to make that trip.  I really wish I
> could go... this is the #1 devroom for me this year!
>
> To anyone else who can make it, I'm sure you're going to have a great
> time!  Wish I could be there!
>
>  - Chris

Well, I'm happy (and surprised) to say I was wrong!  I got enough
encouragement off-list that my participation at FOSDEM and at the
Guile/Guix room would be of value, and some members of the MediaGoblin
community helped out:

  http://lists.mediagoblin.org/pipermail/devel/2015-November/001331.html

So I've submitted both talks, on Guix deployment, and on the Guile
community.  The Guile/Guix room is the room I'm #1 excited about this
year, so I'm looking forward to being there!

 - Chris

Re: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Yay!  Great news!  Looking forward to catching up in person again :-)

Alex

Christopher Allan Webber writes:

> Christopher Allan Webber writes:
>
>> Unfortunately, I had put up a couple of talk proposals on the wiki, but
>> things have happened between now and then, and I'm not sure if I can
>> manage to budget the time / funds to make that trip.  I really wish I
>> could go... this is the #1 devroom for me this year!
>>
>> To anyone else who can make it, I'm sure you're going to have a great
>> time!  Wish I could be there!
>>
>>  - Chris
>
> Well, I'm happy (and surprised) to say I was wrong!  I got enough
> encouragement off-list that my participation at FOSDEM and at the
> Guile/Guix room would be of value, and some members of the MediaGoblin
> community helped out:
>
>   http://lists.mediagoblin.org/pipermail/devel/2015-November/001331.html
>
> So I've submitted both talks, on Guix deployment, and on the Guile
> community.  The Guile/Guix room is the room I'm #1 excited about this
> year, so I'm looking forward to being there!
>
>  - Chris

Re: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

[Ludovic Courtès]

"Neil Jerram" <neil@ossau.homelinux.net> skribis:

> Pjotr, I've made my submission now - please could you check if it
> looks correctly done?  (I've never done a FOSDEM submission before...)

I can confirm it’s in penta.fosdem.org, but I think you need to fill out
the “Abstract” and “Description” boxes to placate it.  Could you look
into it?

Thanks!

Ludo’.

Re: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Hello,

I'm approaching a state for an initial release of a Guile library I'm
working on to make command line application configuration easy and
declarative.

The idea is that within a project you have a single declaration of
internal configuration variables, command line configuration flags and
configuration file settings.  From this declaration the library can
figure out whether it needs to write configuration files, which it can
generate; it will then override the internal settings with values from
the configuration files, and finally it will handle the command line
arguments using getopt-long.

At the end the program developer is provided with a data structure that
has the same interface as the getopt-long data structure.

In addition the library is able to generate --help/usage and --version
messages of a pretty high quality.

Finally the library supports "recursive commands". I.e. commands such
as:
$ foo --verbose bar baz /home/basheep/blah
would execute the subscript baz with the --verbose flag and the
/hom.../blah filename as arguments (if baz is declared as a
subcommand; otherwise it would execute the subscript bar with baz +
filename + --verbose as arguments, etc.).

I'm cautiously optimistic that the first release should be able to
handle a significant number of use cases.

Are we still looking for talks at FOSDEM?  And if so, would people be
interested in a talk on this project?

Best wishes,

Alex

Pjotr Prins writes:

> # GNU Guile devroom call for talks @FOSDEM 2016 
>
> For the first time ever, we have a GNU Guile devroom at FOSDEM on January 30,
> 2016. The call for talk proposals is open! Important members of the GNU Guile
> and GNU Guix community will attend. We are excited because FOSDEM is one of the
> most important free software conferences and is hosted annually at [Université libre de
> Bruxelles in Brussels,
> Belgium](https://fosdem.org/2016/practical/transportation/); the devroom will
> host up to 80 people.
>
> Submissions for talks are due on November 30, 2015. 
>
> ## Topics
>
> GNU Guile is the preferred extension system for the GNU Project which
> features an implementation of the Scheme programming language, a dialect of
> Lisp. Especially technical talks are invited on topics concerning GNU Guile and
> applications that use Guile (such as GNU Guix, Lilypond and Gnucash). In the
> talks both experienced Guile programmers and newbies should be addressed.
> FOSDEM is a great opportunity to attract people interested in GNU Guile and
> Lisp. Examples of (already proposed) talks could be
>
> - Guile programming:
>   + functors and monads in Guile
>   + composable continuations in Guile
>   + POSIX programming in Guile and the FFI
> - Web frameworks with GNU Guile
> - GNU Guix:
>   + GNU/Hurd support in Guix
>   + R, Perl, Python and Ruby support in GNU Guix
>   + Reproducible pipelines for Guix
>   + Guix environments (VM, containers etc.)
> - Guile and the network:
>   + Software distribution using GNUnet
>   + Paving a path to greater network freedom using Guix and Guile
>
> ## Submit talk
>
> Feel free to submit your own topic or even run with one of these.  The
> most interesting talks will be selected.  Talks are 15 or 30 minutes
> (including Q&A; please notify in the application your preference) on
> GNU Guile related projects.
>
> Please note that presenting at FOSDEM implies giving permission to be
> recorded. The recordings will be published under the same licence as
> all FOSDEM content (CC-BY).
>
> Submit your proposal here: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16
>
> If you submitted a talk to a previous FOSDEM, you should already have
> an account, so make sure that you log in with your existing account.
> You should only need to create an account if you have not submitted a
> talk to FOSDEM in recent years.  After you have your account
> configured (you will receive a confirmation email), create the event,
> and click on "Show all" in the top right corner to diplay the full
> form. When submitting your talk make doubly sure to select "GNU Guile
> devroom" as track, and include the following information:
>
>   * The title and subtitle of your talk
>   * A short abstract of one paragraph
>   * A longer description if you wish to do so
>   * Links to related websites/blogs etc

Re: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Alex Sassmannshausen writes:

> Are we still looking for talks at FOSDEM?  And if so, would people be
> interested in a talk on this project?

Yes!  Submit the talk!

Re: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

[Pjotr Prins]

Yes!

On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 09:56:03AM -0600, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> Alex Sassmannshausen writes:
> 
> > Are we still looking for talks at FOSDEM?  And if so, would people be
> > interested in a talk on this project?
> 
> Yes!  Submit the talk!
> 

-- 

Re: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

[Neil Jerram]

Hi Ludo,

On 19/11/15 14:25, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> "Neil Jerram" <neil@ossau.homelinux.net> skribis:
>
>> Pjotr, I've made my submission now - please could you check if it
>> looks correctly done?  (I've never done a FOSDEM submission before...)
>
> I can confirm it’s in penta.fosdem.org, but I think you need to fill out
> the “Abstract” and “Description” boxes to placate it.  Could you look
> into it?

Thanks for checking.  For now I've just done a straight copy of what 
I've already written, into the "Abstract" and "Full Description" boxes.

Will that do for now?  I will improve this as we get closer to the 
event, but would rather not spend more cycles on it right at the moment.

Regards,
	Neil

Re: FOSDEM call for Guile related talks

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Great, now done!

Let me know if that does not look right!

Alex

Pjotr Prins writes:

> Yes!
>
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 09:56:03AM -0600, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>> Alex Sassmannshausen writes:
>> 
>> > Are we still looking for talks at FOSDEM?  And if so, would people be
>> > interested in a talk on this project?
>> 
>> Yes!  Submit the talk!
>>