From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Thompson Subject: Guix at the Open Bioinformatics Codefest 2014 hackathon Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:05:14 -0400 Message-ID: <87d2dd1ksl.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54744) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5D6L-0002xp-Ve for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:05:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5D6E-00075E-Iw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:05:25 -0400 Received: from na3sys009aob128.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.135]:48129) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5D6E-000753-C9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:05:18 -0400 Received: by mail-qa0-f53.google.com with SMTP id v10so1758544qac.40 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 05:05:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from izanagi (209-6-40-86.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com. [209.6.40.86]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 103sm31382824qgi.39.2014.07.10.05.05.15 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 10 Jul 2014 05:05:15 -0700 (PDT) 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: guix-devel@gnu.org 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). Overall, I think it went well for my first technical talk outside of college. I received several good questions from the audience, which showed me that people were paying attention and are interested! Afterwards, I had a few more conversations about how Guix works at a local bar. >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. :) -- David Thompson Web Developer - Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org GPG Key: 0FF1D807 Support the FSF: https://fsf.org/donate