From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: CFP: GNU Hacker Meeting 2016 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:46:05 +0200 Message-ID: <87oa6ipfqq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k2j2hx03.fsf@gnu.org> <87twh7rdtf.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1mz4vm4.fsf@gnu.org> <20160630053505.GA8889@debian-netbook> 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]:45089) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bIiql-0001Tc-Oe for Guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2016 16:46:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bIiqh-0006Ex-IF for Guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2016 16:46:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: (catonano@gmail.com's message of "Thu, 30 Jun 2016 19:39:00 +0200") 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" To: Catonano Cc: Guix-devel@gnu.org Hi! Catonano skribis: > I won't be able to attend but if I could attend I'd love to participate in > hands on sessions. > > Just recently I explored the build systems code, I even wrote on the help > mailing list as I was confused, I also tried to have a brief interactive > session in a REPL with the store monad > > In my opinion, showing that to people would be tremendously helpful. > > As for Emacs, as I already have written on the libreplanet mailing list, I > used to have a hard time with Emacs too and what allowed me to reach a > turning point was an educational footage I bought on line from the then > Peepcode, now Pluralsight. > > So should you have hands on sessions, while there, showing people how to > use Emacs and how it is supposed to be useful, and how to explore Guix > subsystems, my suggestion is to record it all and later publish it. > > This could make the event useful even to those who won't participate. > > Video footages are, in my view, a fundamental complement to written > manuals. Good to have this feedback. If we have some sort of a hands-on session, we=E2=80=99ll try to have good videos, though I guess it=E2=80=99s hard to = make good videos from in-person sessions. We=E2=80=99ll see! Did you look at some of the videos at ? These are clearly not tutorials, but there are demos, and I wonder how useful that is as a complement to the manual(s). Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.