Hello Julien,

Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> ezt írta (időpont: 2021. dec. 11.,
Szo, 2:37):

> Hi Guix!
>
> I think it's time to start organising the Guix Days, traditionally held
> around Fosdem.
>

Super good initiative.


> During our guix-europe assembly, we discussed some options and everyone
> agreed they wanted a two-day event, online just as Fosdem. I attached a
> proposed blog post that we should put on the website as soon as we
> agree on the first details.
>
> I suggest that we have these days right after Fosdem, Monday and
> Tuesday. This should give us just a few more days to prepare, as I think
> we're starting pretty late already. If you prefer to have them before
> fosdem, I can change the blog post of course.
>

Sounds good to me.


> As for how it'll be organised. I propose to do something similar to
> what we need in November 2020. I'd love to get some talks from people
> outside the usual maintainers and commiters, to have an overview of the
> diversity of people and usage around Guix.
>
> Last year, we asked speakers to prepare a video in advance, and they
> would only have an extended Q&A/discussion session. I think this year
> we should have the same process, but ask for a short (3-5 minutes) talk
> at the start of the session to refresh our minds on the main points of
> the presentation before discussions start.
>
> Of course, one of our co-maintainers should have a session on a
> retrospective (what happened last year in Guix) and lead discussions on
> the future of Guix. We should reserve plenty of time for this session.
>
> In addition, I'd like to invite people to submit discussion ideas and
> be free of having to make a presentation if they prefer (BoF). I'd also
> like to "innovate" and have a session of lightning talks, where people
> would only have to give a short, live presentation on any topic related
> to Guix (I'm thinking short presentation of a project where you use
> guix, of something you're doing with guix, how you found guix, a story
> of your first days with guix, ...). We can also replace that with a
> presentation round at the beginning of the conference if we don't have
> enough lightning talks.
>
> The Guix Days have never been a "real" conference, and always had a lot
> of room for discussions that start on the spot. I'd like to emulate
> this by keeping a lot of time out of the talk sessions to discuss
> whatever comes up naturally during our discussions.
>
> Also, we need to secure a BBB instance :)
>

Should you need any help in organizing, feel free to reach out to me, I
will try to do my best.


> WDYT?
>

Thanks for the effort that went into this so far,
I am looking forward to participating.

Best regards,
g_bor