GNU Guix: Meet Guix at FOSDEM

Next week will be FOSDEM time for Guix! As
in previous years, a
sizable delegation of Guix community members will be in Brussels. Right
before FOSDEM, about sixty of us will gather on January 30–31 for
the now traditional Guix Days!

In pure unconference style, we will self-organize and discuss and/or
hack on hot topics: drawing lessons from the user & contributor
survey,
improving the contributor workflow, sustaining our infrastructure,
improving governance and processes, writing the build daemon in Guile,
optimizing guix pull, Goblinizing the Shepherd… there’s no shortage
of topics!

This time we’ve definitely reached the maximum capacity of our
venue
so please do not just show up if you did not
register. Next
year we’ll have to find a larger venue!

As for FOSDEM itself, here’s your agenda if you want to hear about Guix
and related projects, be it on-line or on-site.

On Saturday, February 1st, in the Open Research
track:

• Guix + Software Heritage: Source Code Archiving to the Rescue of
  Reproducible
  Deployment,
  at noon, where Simon Tournier will talk about the latest
  developments connecting Guix and the Software Heritage
  archive.

On Sunday, February 2nd, do not miss the amazing Declarative &
Minimalistic Computing
track! It will
feature many Guile- and Guix-adjacent talks, in particular:

• RDE: Tools for managing reproducible development
  environments,
  where Nicolas Grave will present how RDE extends Guix and what nifty
  features it brings;
• The Shepherd: Minimalism in
  PID 1,
  where I (Ludovic Courtès) will talk about the recently-released
  Shepherd 1.0
  and why I think its design makes it the coolest init system to hack
  on;
• Shepherd with Spritely Goblins for Secure System Layer
  Collaboration,
  where Juliana Sims of Spritely will present on-going work to port
  the Shepherd to
  Goblins
  in support of distributed and capability-based secure computing.

But really, there’s a lot more to see in this track, starting with talks
by our Spritely friends on web development with Guile and Hoot by David
Thompson,
a presentation of the Goblins distributed computing framework by
Jessica
Tallon,
and one on Spritely’s vision by Christine Lemmer-Webber
herself
(Spritely will be present in other tracks
too,
check it out!), as well as a talk by Andy Wingo on what may become
Guile’s new garbage
collector.

Good times ahead!

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