Dear all, If someone is interested in packaging GNUnet, GNU Taler, Anastasis (or other Free Software) for Nix, this might be a good alternative to GSoC which did not accept GNU this year...
Feel free to pass it on! Happy hacking! Christian On 5/14/21 3:37 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Heads up: Summer of Nix > ======================= > > As you know, we want to package the fruits of your hard labour into the > wonderful Nix package management system - to make them easily accessible > for everyone. But with NGI Zero being so productive, it has been hard to > find enough packagers. > > This is why we are proud to be supporting a significant influx of new > talent into the Nix ecosystem, with a new effort called the Summer of > Nix. This programme will bring together dozens of students, > professionals and passionates that will spend between August and > mid-October to take up the challenge of packaging as many NGI Zero > projects as possible. Experienced Nix packagers are participating in a > mentoring role. The program is organized by members of the core Nix > development team, the NixOS foundation, Tweag and NLnet foundation. > > For many projects, it will be beneficial to interact with the packagers > tackling their project themselves - the repo and software bill of > materials hopefully should get them a long way, but it can be very > helpful for both sides to have some contact - if information is > outdated, incomplete, or there are technical issues that need to be > resolved. > We hope you like this effort, and think it is useful. We are still > figuring out the logistics, but we hope to be able to make an inventory > of your availability during this period - to facilitate the cooperation > with the packagers. Thanks for your collaboration! > > P.S. If you know people that might be interested to participate, feel > free to point them to: > > https://summer.nixos.org
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