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To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor?= Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 09:31:32PM +0100, Gábor Boskovits wrote:
> Hello Veera,
> 
> Veera <vkor@vkten.in> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. márc. 7., Szo 16:05):
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am R Veera Kumar from India. I have been selected as Outreachy applicant
> > for May 2020 round.
> >
> Nice to see you around.
> 

Thanks!

> 
> >
> > I have heard about Guix from news and have checked about it a little
> > before.
> > I do not know Scheme/Guile Language.
> >
> This is not a problem. I believe it can be picked up easily. This won't be
> the biggest burden in the project.
> 

Oh well.

> >
> > How do I get started?
> > What contributions can I make?
> >
> 
> To get started you should install guix. For this project it might make
> sense to install guix system also. You should also set up a guix
> development environment, by checking out the source code, and building it.
> 

I am installing GuixSD.

> The usual first time contribution we recommend is to package an R package
> from cran that has all its dependencies in guix using the importer.
> 
> You can also check out http://issues.guix.gnu.org/easy and work on some
> easy bugs.
> 

Yes. I checked that.

> Thanks for your interest. I hope that I could give you useful information.
> 
> Best regards,
> g_bor
> 

Thanks for the welcome!

Regards,
Veera