Re: [outreachy] am I in the right track to contribute

[Laura Lazzati <laura.lazzati.15@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 7:26 PM Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Welcome to guix!

Thank you!
>
> Laura Lazzati <laura.lazzati.15@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > I don't know if is it OK to be telling you what I am/ I've been doing
> > these days, I kind of like doing so to have feedback, and also to let
> > you know
> >
> > I installed guix on a VM with an Ubuntu distro and it worked fine - i
> > ran some basic commands.
> >  I am trying to install GuixSD over that VM too and on bare metal -
> > don't know if this two steps are necessary, but looking at the tasks
> > for Outreachy one items says that I will be doing documentation for
> > it.
> > I also read the tutorial in http://guix-hpc-bordeaux.inria.fr, the
> > documentation about defining packages - I am in process of studying
> > how to do so. And I have the following questions:
> > 1) should I write, at least for myself, the problems I've been
> > encountering in the whole process of doing everything?
>
> I think it is a good idea. Usually after using a program for some time,
> I get used the program behaviour and forget how it was like when I just
> get started. It is always good to have newcomers to share the
> difficulties they encountered!
>
> > 2) When a suggestion for a contribution is writing an R package, you
> > mean the R programming language?
> >
> Yes, I think so. A capitalized 'R' usually means the 'R programming
> language' in my dictionary. You can find all the R package
> definitions / recipes in 'gnu/package/statistics.scm'.
>
I'm interested in taking this as a contribution. I have just sent
another reply mail telling about my bad luck with my laptop. I'm
trying to fix the sound issue while reading documentation about how to
package software
I have used R before, so  I was asking about that
> > Regards!.
>
> There're also some talks about guix on the web[0][1]. You can watch them
> if you are interested.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
> [0]: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/practical-verifiable-software-freedom-with-guixsd/
> [1]: https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/usingguix/