Re: FOSDEM 2019 - devroom proposal

[Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 07:40:35PM +0200, Amirouche Boubekki wrote:
> > How about a dev-room for 'fun freedom programming languages'. It may get
> > a
> > white space talk. Then, if I think of the work on MES and Guix it may
> > not be that great a fit. My point is that we should name the room that
> > will fit these projects
> > 
> > - MES reproducible from soucre bootstrap
> > - Guile Guix
> > - Guile Cuirass
> > - Guile JIT
> > - Guile Sheperd
> > - Lua JIT
> > 
> > and then more...
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Is it ok if I rework http://community.schemewiki.org/?FOSDEM2019
> so that it claims that there is a 'minimalistic language' devroom proposal
> that will be made taking into account what people propose on that page?

Yes, please.

> Also, I would like to copy/paste the proposals from [0] to that wiki page so
> that people see that there are actually more people interested in such a
> room.
> 
> [0] https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/FOSDEM2019#A_list_of_proposed_talks_for_a_GNU_Guile.2FGuix_track_.40FOSDEM_2019

Good idea.

> > Note that 'fun freedom programming languages' is already too long a
> > name for a devroom.
> > 
> 
> Ok
> 
> > > One has 6 months to prepare.
> > 
> > But we only have 3 weeks to apply for a dev-room.
> 
> ack

I modified the subject to reflect this effort. It is quite separate
from the Guix days.

Ping me when you are done - I'll send a message to the FOSDEM mailing
list too. See what they think.

Thanks again! We'll have some fun :)

Pj.