Re: The Guix Days! (FOSDEM 2020)

[Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>]

Hi Pjotr,

On +2019-12-10 06:43:51 -0600, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> FOSDEM is coming early February and not only are we organizing the GNU
> Guix days, we also have a devroom with exciting talks on Guile, Guix,
> and Mes! See 
> 
>   https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/FOSDEM2020
> 
> and
> 
>   https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/minimalistic_experimental_and_emerging_languages/
> 
> FOSDEM is the greatest free software conference on earth (in my opinion)
> and almost everyone who goes once keeps coming because there is
> something for everyone. 
> 
> See last years amazing program for Saturday:
> 
>   https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/day/saturday/
> 
> Both FOSDEM and Guix days are free to attend! The evening program is
> great too - you can find hacker nirvana.
> 
> We can only receive up to 40 people for the Guix days (last year we
> had 35) and we need to reserve the catering. So, please sign up on the
> libreplanet link above, if you intend to come. If we happen to have
> too many people to attend the meeting the 40 who signed up have a
> guaranteed entry. If you don't want to subscribe to the wiki you can
> send us a request to add.
> 
> Pjotr & Manolis.
>

Thanks for the links!

Looks super interesting, so I hope the minimalistic stuff especially
is recorded for later streaming.

I am going to try to come for the fringe plus FOSDEM,
though logistics may be tight for me (what if I am forced to be no-show?)

But if there is room for me in the 40, I would appreciate being added :)

>  n Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 05:20:41PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> > Hi Guix,
> > 
> > Chris Marusich kindly took the time to write a detailed report about a
> > session from the Guix Days, and it’s now up on the Guix blog:
> > 
> >     https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2019/guix-days-bootstrapping-arm/
> > 
> > I don’t want to spoil it for you, so I encourage you to take a peek at
> > it yourselves to read about challenges of the past, the present, and the
> > future when it comes to bootstrapping ARM systems.
> > 
> > Not only does the blog post explain the problems and technical fixes,
> > but Chris takes a few steps back to look at the bigger picture and
> > invites you to think big.
> > 
> > Enjoy!
> > 
> > --
> > Ricardo
> > 
> > 
> 

-- 
Regards,
Bengt Richter