Hello Guix!

Just a quick note to say we’re back from FOSDEM and it was really
pleasant.  The slides of my Guix talk are at:

  http://gnu.org/software/guix/#talks

Unfortunately I think there won’t be any video of the distro room (there
was top-notch video hardware in the room but apparently the fancy setup
for streaming + recording just didn’t work, *sigh*.)

There were I’d say around 70 people in the room, and I think the talk
was rather well received.  I’m not completely satisfied though, notably
because the user emancipation thesis I focused on was probably not very
“profitable” in this context, the demos were perhaps too schemish, and I
left too little time for questions.  Perhaps those who were there can
express their feelings.

The good news is that there were six Guix people at FOSDEM, which is
just huuuge.  ;-)  It was nice meeting everyone.

Earlier on the same day there was a cool NixOS talk by Nicolas Pierron,
notably demonstrating distributed deployment with NixOps (fancy!):

  https://nbp.github.io/slides/FOSDEM/2015.Nix-NixOS-NixOps/

Right before me was a talk by Debian Project Leader Lucas Nussbaum,
which turned out to be a good introduction to mine  :-)

  http://blop.info/p/20150131-fosdem-distros-boring.pdf

I heard the Debian Reproducible talk was also interesting:

  https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/stretching_out_for_trustworthy_reproducible_builds/

Ludo’.