Google Summer of Code project concepts

[Chris Dale <adventureonthehighseas@gmail.com>]

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Hello Guix community!

I just learned about Guix from the GNU Google Summer of Code project page,
and I'm very interested in the idea of a fully functional package manager.
That one of the project ideas was bundling the distribution with a window
manager sparked in me the idea to bundle it with a fully-functional window
manager. I originally envisioned xmonad as the wm of choice, due to my
interest in Haskell, and emailed Ludo to this effect. He told me it might
be more beneficial to use a natively Guile Scheme wm, which he observed are
few, not very mature, and generally stagnant already. Upon looking around
further, I came across stumpwm, implemented in 100% Common Lisp, so I
propose a compromise: adapt and package stumpwm for use with Guile Scheme
and Guix, and then use the resulting environment to have  a free software
distribution configurable primarily in Guile Scheme.

I chose stumpwm because I prefer tiling managers to conventional ones,
though I would respect if the view of the crowd was that conventional wms
would be more useful to have for the distro - there are Common Lisp (and
even Guile, sort of) alternatives in the conventional realm.

Thank you in advance for all of your input!

[Chris] Dale

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