If there's interest in it, I signed up for a second talk about expanding the Guile community, kind of based on my overly-exuberant email to guile-devel last night. I'm not sure if anyone would be interested in that! But it's something I really care about.
Pjotr Prins writes: > Would it be worth contacting the other GNU projects that use Guile? > Can someone put this announcement on the Guile mailing list? > > Pj. > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 06:53:38AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: >> FOSDEM Dev track deadline Oct. 9th. The more talk proposals we have >> for Guile/Guix, the better: >> >> https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/TalkProposals >> >> If you have an idea for a talk on Guile/Guix, please add it before >> coming Monday. Even if you are not sure you can make it. We may find >> someone else to give the talk! Dave, how about your static web >> publishing system, and the the deployment stuff? >> >> We also need non-Guix talks! How about a Guile talk on monads, or >> Guile as part of other GNU projects? The language dev tracks tend to >> be interesting, let's make ours exciting! >> >> Pj. >> >> ----- Forwarded message from Alasdair G Kergon <[email protected]> ----- >> >> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 22:14:38 +0100 >> From: Alasdair G Kergon <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation >> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i >> >> FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to >> meet, share ideas and collaborate. 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