Opportunity For Guix: RFI Areas of long-term focus and Prioritization

Opportunity For Guix: RFI Areas of long-term focus and Prioritization

[jgart]

Hi Guixers,

Just reposting this chat message from Ryan Prior over #guix for anyone interested:

> The US Federal government has an RFI open on "Areas of long-term focus and Prioritization". They're looking for 10 page briefing memos on supporting memory-safe languages, strengthening software supply chains, sustaining FLOSS, behavioural/economic incentives to secure the OSS ecosytem, or other related ideas.
Sounds like an interesting opportunity for Guix hackers

https://cloudisland.nz/@freakboy3742/110969575789548640

I don't have the time currently to submit an RFI on behalf of GNU Guix but maybe someone else is interested in this opportunity?

best,

jgart

Re: Opportunity For Guix: RFI Areas of long-term focus and Prioritization

[Sarthak Shah]

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I second this, this could be something very good for Guix.
We have a number of favorable features that could be desirable in a
high-trust environment such as stability, seamless rollbacks, the ability
to bootstrap completely from source etc.

Regards,
Sarthak.

On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 8:15 AM jgart <jgart@dismail.de> wrote:

> Hi Guixers,
>
> Just reposting this chat message from Ryan Prior over #guix for anyone
> interested:
>
> > The US Federal government has an RFI open on "Areas of long-term focus
> and Prioritization". They're looking for 10 page briefing memos on
> supporting memory-safe languages, strengthening software supply chains,
> sustaining FLOSS, behavioural/economic incentives to secure the OSS
> ecosytem, or other related ideas.
> Sounds like an interesting opportunity for Guix hackers
>
> https://cloudisland.nz/@freakboy3742/110969575789548640
>
> I don't have the time currently to submit an RFI on behalf of GNU Guix but
> maybe someone else is interested in this opportunity?
>
> best,
>
> jgart
>
>

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Re: Opportunity For Guix: RFI Areas of long-term focus and Prioritization

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi jgart,

"jgart" <jgart@dismail.de> writes:

> Hi Guixers,
>
> Just reposting this chat message from Ryan Prior over #guix for anyone interested:
>
>> The US Federal government has an RFI open on "Areas of long-term
> focus and Prioritization". They're looking for 10 page briefing memos
> on supporting memory-safe languages, strengthening software supply
> chains, sustaining FLOSS, behavioural/economic incentives to secure
> the OSS ecosytem, or other related ideas.
> Sounds like an interesting opportunity for Guix hackers
>
> https://cloudisland.nz/@freakboy3742/110969575789548640
>
> I don't have the time currently to submit an RFI on behalf of GNU Guix but maybe someone else is interested in this opportunity?

Thanks for sharing, I've tried my luck.  My RFI reply was about
strengthening free software distribution supply chain via GNU Guix and
GNUnet.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

Re: Opportunity For Guix: RFI Areas of long-term focus and Prioritization

[Giovanni Biscuolo]

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Hello Maxim,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

>> The US Federal government has an RFI open on "Areas of long-term
>> focus and Prioritization". They're looking for 10 page briefing memos
>> on supporting memory-safe languages, strengthening software supply
>> chains, sustaining FLOSS, behavioural/economic incentives to secure
>> the OSS ecosytem, or other related ideas.
>> Sounds like an interesting opportunity for Guix hackers
>>
>> https://cloudisland.nz/@freakboy3742/110969575789548640

For the records, the RFI page is this one:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/08/10/2023-17239/request-for-information-on-open-source-software-security-areas-of-long-term-focus-and-prioritization
(also on Wayback Machine and archive.is)

[...]

> Thanks for sharing, I've tried my luck.  My RFI reply was about
> strengthening free software distribution supply chain via GNU Guix and
> GNUnet.

Thank you for the initiative!

For the records all submitted comments are published in the Docket ID
ONCD-2023-0002 available here:
https://www.regulations.gov/docket/ONCD-2023-0002

Your comment is pubished here:
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/ONCD-2023-0002-0033
(unfortunately only as PDF)

IMHO your RFI could (hopefully easily) become a Guix project blog post,
with a brief introduction explaining the context like a link to the
above linked page and quick summary of the request for information:
WDYT?

Anyway, the process now is in Phase III (Government Review) [1]:

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The Government reviews and publishes the RFI responses submitted during
Phase II. The Government may select respondents to engage with the RFI
project team to elaborate on their response to the RFI.

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We'll see if this "message in a bottle" will be heard by Someone™

Thank you and happy hacking! Gio'


[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2023-17239/p-23

-- 
Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures

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Re: Opportunity For Guix: RFI Areas of long-term focus and Prioritization

[jgart]

Great! Keep us posted on the results.

all best,

jgart