Meet Guix at Capitole du Libre in Toulouse, nov. 18-19

Meet Guix at Capitole du Libre in Toulouse, nov. 18-19

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

Some of us will be in Toulouse, INP-N7, 26 rue Riquet on 18 & 19
november for Capitole du Libre:

    https://capitoledulibre.org/

We will stand in Village Associatif.  Let us know if you can help us
at the event.  Well, I do not know exactly what means "a stand" since
it will be the first for me. :-)  I guess it mainly consists to be
around the Guix booth, chat with people about why Guix is awesome! and
maybe demo some Guix features.

Feel free to share your ideas. :-)

Concretely, if you are planning to come, let synchronize and share the
fun.  Andreas and I will be there.  Who is in?  Do not be shy and drop
an email; off-list possibly.

If you are there, please stop at the wonderful Guix kakemono and say hi.

Hope to see you soon.

Cheers,
simon

PS: The event is in French-speaking.

Re: Meet Guix at Capitole du Libre in Toulouse, nov. 18-19

[Vivien Kraus]

Bonsoir Simon,

Le mardi 24 octobre 2023 à 22:10 +0200, Simon Tournier a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Some of us will be in Toulouse, INP-N7, 26 rue Riquet on 18 & 19
> november for Capitole du Libre:
> 
>     https://capitoledulibre.org/
> 
> We will stand in Village Associatif.  Let us know if you can help us
> at the event.  Well, I do not know exactly what means "a stand" since
> it will be the first for me. :-)  I guess it mainly consists to be
> around the Guix booth, chat with people about why Guix is awesome!
> and
> maybe demo some Guix features.
> 
> Feel free to share your ideas. :-)
> 
> Concretely, if you are planning to come, let synchronize and share
> the
> fun.  Andreas and I will be there.  Who is in?  Do not be shy and
> drop
> an email; off-list possibly.
> 
> If you are there, please stop at the wonderful Guix kakemono and say
> hi.
> 
> Hope to see you soon.

Je compte bien y aller !

Vivien

Re: Meet Guix at Capitole du Libre in Toulouse, nov. 18-19

[Josselin Poiret]

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Hi everyone,

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Some of us will be in Toulouse, INP-N7, 26 rue Riquet on 18 & 19
> november for Capitole du Libre:
> [...]
> Concretely, if you are planning to come, let synchronize and share the
> fun.  Andreas and I will be there.  Who is in?  Do not be shy and drop
> an email; off-list possibly.

I will be there!  When will you arrive in Toulouse?

Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret

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Stand Guix au Capitole du Libre à Toulouse, nov. 18-19

[Simon Tournier]

Salut,

La date du Capitole du Libre approche... Chouette !

L'organisation Capitole du Libre demande le nombre de personnes qui
aideront pour le stand (une histoire de sécurité et de badge).

Il serait aussi judicieux que l’on puisse avoir une idée entre nous pour
faciliter la journée ou les journées.

Qu’est-ce que cela signifie être au stand ?  Parler de Guix et de
logiciel libre.  Rien de formel et pas besoin d’être un expert. :-) Si
vous lisez cet email, cela signifie que vous êtes suffisamment intéressé
par Guix pour en discuter avec des gens qui ne connaissent pas du tout.

Par exemple, les créneaux qui me conviendraient – rien de fixe non plus
;-) – présence samedi matin pour l’installation jusqu’à 13h, vadrouille
jusqu’à 15h, puis 15h-19h.  J’aimerais arriver le dimanche vers 11h,
puis jusqu’au démontage.  Bref, voilà l’idée quoi. :-)

Vous pouvez m’envoyer un email en privé si vous préférez.  Et cela ne
vous engage pas de manière ferme non plus.

À très vite,
simon

Feedback (was Re: Meet Guix at Capitole du Libre in Toulouse)

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

Thanks all people!  It was a very interesting experience for me and a
very good moment.  I hope that we will do again in the near future.

As a record for the next time, let me mention two points that help:

 1. Demos!  It seems very helpful to have both: Guix System and Guix on
    foreign distro.  Depending on the people, some are interested by one
    or the other.  Mainly, what mark points (main selling arguments ;-))

    Guix on foreign distro:
    
      a) do not interact with foreign distro
          => good complement and rolling release
      b) containerized  shell
          => please developers

    Guix System:
    
      a) roll-back
      b) transactional
      c) roll-back at GRUB level

 2. An explanation about what makes Guix different compared to X

    where X is:

    i) classical distro as Arch, Gentoo, Debian, etc.
    ii) Nix and NixOS

Sadly, we do not have a clear story for ii) IMHO.

Well, from my point of view, the main difference is the continuous*
approach of Guix – the same “language“ from declaring packages or OS
configuration to Guix core; except the daemon, another story. ;-) Well,
that “language” allows to implement a powerful solution as G-expression
tackling, among other things, string interpolation.

It could be nice if we could collectively draft a short FAQ about what
Guix is and Guix is not, answering such common questions.


Cheers,
simon


*continuous approach: The Emacs Thesis :-)
----------------------

The story of Guile is the story of bringing the development experience
of Emacs to the mass of programs on a GNU system.

   Emacs, when it was first created in its GNU form in 1984, was a new
take on the problem of “how to make a program”.  The Emacs thesis is
that it is delightful to create composite programs based on an
orthogonal kernel written in a low-level language together with a
powerful, high-level extension language.

   Extension languages foster extensible programs, programs which adapt
readily to different users and to changing times.  Proof of this can be
seen in Emacs’ current and continued existence, spanning more than a
quarter-century.

   Besides providing for modification of a program by others, extension
languages are good for _intension_ as well.  Programs built in “the
Emacs way” are pleasurable and easy for their authors to flesh out with
the features that they need.

   After the Emacs experience was appreciated more widely, a number of
hackers started to consider how to spread this experience to the rest of
the GNU system.  It was clear that the easiest way to Emacsify a program
would be to embed a shared language implementation into it.

Re: Feedback (was Re: Meet Guix at Capitole du Libre in Toulouse)

[Oliver Propst]

On 2023-11-29 17:01, Simon Tournier wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Simon thanks for the update.

-- 
Kinds regards Oliver Propst