From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: Book idea and Guix items in the FSF(E) shops Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 11:52:19 +0100 Message-ID: <20181206105219.cxqcdlhywfzij2sb@thebird.nl> References: <5f403ef2e3614006129e448c2ff4e251@riseup.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45745) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUrGf-0005QY-6X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2018 05:52:33 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUrGZ-0006Ou-CW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2018 05:52:29 -0500 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([94.142.245.5]:36582) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUrGX-0006NI-IS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2018 05:52:22 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5f403ef2e3614006129e448c2ff4e251@riseup.net> 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: swedebugia@riseup.net Cc: guix-devel 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.