From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nils Gillmann Subject: Re: FOSDEM 2019 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 11:51:12 +0000 Message-ID: <20180831115112.j4pz5p2s6yapwhcu@abyayala> References: <20180827092319.ghxmbxb2mkjv2sat@thebird.nl> <20180830182037.g2pzfuhhjczpikzu@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33164) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fvhxg-00005B-3N for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 07:51:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fvhxb-0001qm-Tw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 07:51:36 -0400 Received: from static.195.114.201.195.clients.your-server.de ([195.201.114.195]:52290 helo=conspiracy.of.n0.pm) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fvhxb-0001bw-KT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 07:51:31 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180830182037.g2pzfuhhjczpikzu@thebird.nl> 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: Pjotr Prins Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Pjotr Prins transcribed 1.8K bytes: > Just to clarify, we will organize a two day Guix conference before > FOSDEM. That is pretty much in the box. We have room at ICAB, the place > we were last year. > > http://icab.be/ Is this directly before fosdem? I'd like to join this time if my schedule allows it. Should we split off a thread to plan this? > In addition to the Guix conference there is the possibility to have a > dev-room at FOSDEM, but we need to apply for it. If the interest is as > underwhelming as it is now I think we better forget about it. These > things take effort to organize. > > I think the 'minimalistic languages for big ideas' room has appeal to > a wider audience and some of our projects fit really well. Anyone > any project ideas? Or do we just forget about it? How about: > > - Guile Guix build farm and Cuirass > - Sheperd (Guile) > > Everyone, please think with us. > > Pj. > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:23:19AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > * Minimalistic Languages > > > > Every year FOSDEM allows for dev-rooms that need to appeal to a wider > > audience and do not overlap with other dev-rooms. Programming > > languages are popular and some of the large languages get their own, > > such as Python and Rust. See the devrooms section on > > > > https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/ > > > > Manolis and I want to submit a plan for 'Minimalistic Languages - for > > big ideas' dev-room. Good examples that fit the room are > > > > - mes and reproducible builds > > - Guile and Guix > > - Guile JIT > > - Lua JIT > > - Lua for scriptable projects (example?) > > > > Anyone anything to add to this list? More ideas is better. > > > > Other languages that could fit are Forth, Smalltalk, Tcl, Rebol. > > Provided they have a big idea. > > > > Note that JVM languages and languages that compile to Javascript do > > not fit the room. They probably have their own dev-rooms anyway. > > Haskell and other Lisps may fit too (if they don't get their own > > room). We think with enough good projects our dev-room will be of > > interest. > > > > Pj & Manolis > > > > > > >