Re: Feedback from JRES in Dijon

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

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I forgot to give you a link to the presentation. It's in French: https://replay.jres.org/videos/watch/c77b3a44-b75f-4c10-9f39-8fb55ae096d7

Also, Marc talked about jdev, another French conference where we could present Guix too: http://devlog.cnrs.fr/jdev2020

Le 5 décembre 2019 15:16:23 GMT+01:00, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> a écrit :
>Hi Guix!
>
>I presented the project at JRES yesterday and had lots of questions and
>reactions.
>
>One person was wondering whether Guix would be a good idea for there
>cluster. I said yes then I redirected them to guix hpc.
>
>Another wanted to have some kind of doi for guix describe + manifest (a
>better UI and easier thing to cite in a paper I suppose).
>
>Another was asking about the possibility ofusing Guix to have multiple
>kernels and boot a debian with guix's kernel (so as to choose a
>compatible kernel at boot iiuc).
>
>The person I talked to at lunch was a bit skeptical about Guix. They
>have it and Nix, with module on their cluster. They told me they were
>more concerned about replicability than reproducibility. Also, their
>users are lost between the options, they have trouble getting help on
>guix from their admins and they end up using conda, yet another tool
>^^".
>
>That's only a few conversations that really marked me, but I had more,
>and I'll hopefully have more this afternoon and tomorrow.
>
>Marc, who organised the guile and guix days in Strasbourg last summer
>is here too and said he will write a tutorial on using vin to program
>in scheme. I'm lookinq forward to reading it!

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