Re: Book idea and Guix items in the FSF(E) shops

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

On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 01:14:49AM -0800, swedebugia@riseup.net wrote:
> What about a book "Introduction to Guile Scheme" modeled after the emacs
> lisp one but with Guix in locus instead of emacs?
> 
> Thinking further I'm guessing we could use some of the newly donated
> funds to give incentitive for write such a book ourselves. E.g. by
> defining resonable chapters and establish clearly defined bounties.
> 
> I for one would like to contribute to such a book. We could work in
> wikibooks or in our own place somewhere but it should be easy to edit
> (easier than a git repo/patch by email).

That is a very good idea. I think, however, the demand will be much
higher for a 'GNU Guix' book which teaches scheme implicitly. It will
also make GNU Guix a first rate item in the shop. Grow a Scheme on
Guix ;)

I am happy to contribute a chapter on 'GNU Guix for science' and
perhaps a chapter on 'Writing software using Guix containers'.

Both topics make my daily work a joy :). Can't do without it.

Pj.