From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Guix at the Open Bioinformatics Codefest 2014 hackathon Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:11:47 +0200 Message-ID: <874myp8lbw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d2dd1ksl.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55793) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5DCd-0004Z0-LK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:12:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5DCY-0000Dr-TX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:11:55 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:41885) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5DCY-0000Dj-Me for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:11:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87d2dd1ksl.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (David Thompson's message of "Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:05:14 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: David Thompson Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org David Thompson skribis: > As some of you know, I gave a brief talk yesterday about Guix at the > hackathon mentioned in the subject line. I had a few quick slides > (mostly copy/paste from the home page and docs) and a demonstration > (which of course had some technical difficulties). Haha, demo effect. :-) What kind of difficulties was it? Relating to substitutes? (hydra.gnu.org has been suffering from DoS over the last couple of weeks...) We can host the slides in guix-maintenance.git and/or on the web page if you want. > From what I gathered, the folks working in Bioinformatics are dealing > with big problems around reproducibility and determinism in their > computing environments, and I think project's like ours can really help > in this matter. > > Here's to hoping we gain some more contributors. :) Yup, thanks for giving a talk! Ludo=E2=80=99.