From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Jiang Subject: Interested in working on Guix for Google Summer of Code Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:04:51 -0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000053caf105850c61cd" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42556) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h90pk-0001cA-Kw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 01:10:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h90kK-0003zG-9E for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 01:05:05 -0400 Received: from mail-ot1-x343.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::343]:40583) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h90kK-0003yv-1x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 01:05:04 -0400 Received: by mail-ot1-x343.google.com with SMTP id t8so8434862otp.7 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2019 22:05:03 -0700 (PDT) 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: guix-devel@gnu.org --00000000000053caf105850c61cd Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi, I'm a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a huge emacs user, and have been curious about Guix/GuixSD for a while now. I found it as a possible project on GSoC and thought it'd be interesting to help work on if possible. The organization page on GSoC said to contact the mentors and was directed to the mailing list from #guix@freenode. I also recognize one of the mentors who wrote bindings to a game programming library for Guile because I was writing some for Common Lisp at the time, so small world lol. (I dunno if you're reading this or know I exist but hello davexunit?) Anyways, are there additional steps to take or things to know other than submitting a GSoC proposal based on this? https://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/guidelines.html And what might be some ideas on the level for a undergrad with a bit of experience? https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2019#Guix_Deploy Sincerely, Daniel Jiang --00000000000053caf105850c61cd Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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I'm a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai= gn, a huge emacs user, and have been curious about Guix/GuixSD for a while = now. I found it as a possible project on GSoC and thought it'd be inter= esting to help work on if possible. The organization page on GSoC said to c= ontact the mentors and was directed to the mailing list from #guix@freenode= . I also recognize one of the mentors who wrote bindings to a game programm= ing library for Guile because I was writing some for Common Lisp at the tim= e, so small world lol. (I dunno if you're reading this or know I exist = but hello davexunit?)

Anyways, are there additiona= l steps to take or things to know other than submitting a GSoC proposal bas= ed on this?


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--00000000000053caf105850c61cd-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: Interested in working on Guix for Google Summer of Code Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:21:24 +0100 Message-ID: <874l7obax7.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48252) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h9AMr-0003SQ-28 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 11:21:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Daniel Jiang's message of "Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:04:51 -0500") 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: Daniel Jiang Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello Daniel! Daniel Jiang skribis: > I'm a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a huge > emacs user, and have been curious about Guix/GuixSD for a while now. I > found it as a possible project on GSoC and thought it'd be interesting to > help work on if possible. The organization page on GSoC said to contact t= he > mentors and was directed to the mailing list from #guix@freenode. I also > recognize one of the mentors who wrote bindings to a game programming > library for Guile because I was writing some for Common Lisp at the time, > so small world lol. (I dunno if you're reading this or know I exist but > hello davexunit?) Nice! > Anyways, are there additional steps to take or things to know other than > submitting a GSoC proposal based on this? > https://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/guidelines.html To get a feel of the project, I=E2=80=99d suggest installing it and giving = it a try for yourself. You can install the =E2=80=9Cbinary tarball=E2=80=9D on = top of your distro if you don=E2=80=99t feel like jumping into the standalone Guix syst= em: https://gnu.org/s/guix/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html Then we usually recommend that newcomers try adding a package definition for their favorite piece of software. It=E2=80=99s a good way to get start= ed with the code base: https://gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/a-packaging-tutorial-for-guix/ https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Defining-Packages.html > And what might be some ideas on the level for a undergrad with a bit of > experience? > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2019#Guix_Deploy I=E2=80=99m Cc=E2=80=99ing Dave Thompson (aka. davexunit) and Chris Webber (aka. dustyweb) who would be your mentors, and I=E2=80=99ll let them answer. :-) Thank you for getting in touch with us! Ludo=E2=80=99.