Re: FOSDEM 2019

[Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>]

Pjotr Prins transcribed 1.8K bytes:
> Just to clarify, we will organize a two day Guix conference before
> FOSDEM. That is pretty much in the box. We have room at ICAB, the place
> we were last year. 
> 
>   http://icab.be/

Is this directly before fosdem? I'd like to join this time if my
schedule allows it. Should we split off a thread to plan this?

> In addition to the Guix conference there is the possibility to have a
> dev-room at FOSDEM, but we need to apply for it. If the interest is as
> underwhelming as it is now I think we better forget about it. These
> things take effort to organize.
> 
> I think the 'minimalistic languages for big ideas' room has appeal to
> a wider audience and some of our projects fit really well. Anyone
> any project ideas? Or do we just forget about it? How about:
> 
> - Guile Guix build farm and Cuirass
> - Sheperd (Guile)
> 
> Everyone, please think with us.
> 
> Pj.
> 
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:23:19AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> > * Minimalistic Languages 
> > 
> > Every year FOSDEM allows for dev-rooms that need to appeal to a wider
> > audience and do not overlap with other dev-rooms. Programming
> > languages are popular and some of the large languages get their own,
> > such as Python and Rust. See the devrooms section on
> > 
> >   https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/
> > 
> > Manolis and I want to submit a plan for 'Minimalistic Languages - for
> > big ideas' dev-room.  Good examples that fit the room are 
> > 
> > - mes and reproducible builds
> > - Guile and Guix
> > - Guile JIT
> > - Lua JIT
> > - Lua for scriptable projects (example?)
> > 
> > Anyone anything to add to this list? More ideas is better.
> > 
> > Other languages that could fit are Forth, Smalltalk, Tcl, Rebol.
> > Provided they have a big idea.
> > 
> > Note that JVM languages and languages that compile to Javascript do
> > not fit the room. They probably have their own dev-rooms anyway.
> > Haskell and other Lisps may fit too (if they don't get their own
> > room). We think with enough good projects our dev-room will be of
> > interest.
> > 
> > Pj & Manolis
> > 
> > 
> > 
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