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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-to: Nicolas Graves From: Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 709DE227D3 X-Migadu-Scanner: mx12.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -5.37 X-Spam-Score: -5.37 X-TUID: bW1IXNcq4eaO Hi John, Andrew Tropin and a few contributers are also using and extending Guix into its own developer and power user friendly GNU/Linux distribution, you can find more info on the project page : https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde Or we can answer any questions you would have with Andrew. You can also find a collection of channels, packages and services here : https://toys.whereis.%E3%81%BF%E3%82%93%E3%81%AA (or here if badly pasted := https://git.sr.ht/~whereiseveryone/toys) There are probably multiple projects of interest there for you. Cheers, Nicolas On 2024-05-13 05:13, John Kehayias wrote: > Hi Guix-ers, > > I have been working on putting in a concept note (to be hopefully > invited for a full proposal) for the Open Technology Sustainability > Fund (thanks Maxim for posting this earlier!). My goal would be to get > support for some broad and deep improvements to Guix around > user/contributor workflows, governance and organization, and generally > improving our response to bugs/patches/feature work. Unfortunately > this comes at a very busy time of year for me, and just before I head > off for some travel. > > Anyway, I wanted to ask if there is any info or statistics anyone has > to help with some project information they request: > > 1. Users & Beneficiaries: Provide an overview of the project=E2=80=99s us= er > base, their demographics and statistics, and any other indirect > beneficiaries. > > 2. Dependencies: Provide an overview of the project=E2=80=99s software > upstream and downstream dependencies. > > For the first, maybe someone has some unofficial surveys or things > like download stats, mirrors, etc.? > > A Guix user/contributor survey came up in the past and is one I would > propose doing as part of this proposal as I think we are lacking some > useful information. > > For the second, obviously we depend on things like Guile and Shepherd, > as well as everything that makes a distro tick (packages). But what > about downstream? > > I know Guix is used for some research, high performance computing, > ...what else do people know of or anywhere we mention this? (Would be > great to have a "powered by Guix" on our website, by the way!) > > Anyway, any useful information please do send my way (privately if you > prefer)! I will need to wrap this up by the 15th unfortunately, and > probably a long shot, but would be fantastic to get some funding to be > able to work full time on Guix. And if I make it to the proposal stage > I'll be reaching out to put together more formal pieces and recruiting > people that would like to work on any funded work. > > Thanks all! > John > > --=20 Best regards, Nicolas Graves