Re: FOSDEM 2018 and announcing a GNU Guix/Guile day! After getting home...

[Ludovic Courtès]

BTW, it’s been a couple of weeks already, but I realize we didn’t write
a summary of the Guix workshop and the discussions we’ve had over the
weekend.  It’d be useful for those who didn’t attend and for lurkers.

Any volunteer?  :-) If you make it plain text or Markdown, we can make
it a blog post.

Ludo’.

Re: FOSDEM 2018 and announcing a GNU Guix/Guile day! After getting home...

[Ludovic Courtès]

Heya,

Efraim Flashner  skribis:

>> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>> 
>> > That alone could justify pursuing the same approach in the coming
>> > years, IMO.  At the same time, a devroom at FOSDEM proper is a good
>> > way to reach out to new people, which is also a good thing.  Maybe we
>> > could do both?  :-)
>> 
>> Yes please! That would give me another chance to participate :D
>> 
>> Alex
>> 
>
> The last time I looked at booths for FOSDEM they said it was really
> crowded and that even groups that might have previously gotten two
> tables would only be getting one table. For next year we might consider
> pairing up with GNU or with Nix and splitting a table. It'd give us a
> meeting area to hang around also.

A devroom is more than one table, though.  :-)  In previous years, we
shared the devroom with Lua folks, which worked well.

Now, at FOSDEM, Björn and others thought it might be a good idea to have
a Guix booth next time (like in the lobby of building K, if you
remember.)  If there are enough volunteers, we should definitely apply.
If all of us can spend a couple of hours at the booth during the
weekend, we should be fine.

Ludo’.

Re: FOSDEM 2018 and announcing a GNU Guix/Guile day! After getting home...

[Efraim Flashner]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 12:23:37PM +0100, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It sounds like the event was absolutely amazing — I'm well jealous of
> everyone who was able to go!
> 
> Ludovic Courtès writes:
> 
> > That alone could justify pursuing the same approach in the coming
> > years, IMO.  At the same time, a devroom at FOSDEM proper is a good
> > way to reach out to new people, which is also a good thing.  Maybe we
> > could do both?  :-)
> 
> Yes please! That would give me another chance to participate :D
> 
> Alex
> 

The last time I looked at booths for FOSDEM they said it was really
crowded and that even groups that might have previously gotten two
tables would only be getting one table. For next year we might consider
pairing up with GNU or with Nix and splitting a table. It'd give us a
meeting area to hang around also.

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Re: FOSDEM 2018 and announcing a GNU Guix/Guile day! After getting home...

[Catonano]

2018-02-05 12:23 GMT+01:00 Alex Sassmannshausen <
alex.sassmannshau...@gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> It sounds like the event was absolutely amazing — I'm well jealous of
> everyone who was able to go!
>
> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
> > That alone could justify pursuing the same approach in the coming
> > years, IMO.  At the same time, a devroom at FOSDEM proper is a good
> > way to reach out to new people, which is also a good thing.  Maybe we
> > could do both?  :-)
>
> Yes please! That would give me another chance to participate :D
>

Ditto

Re: FOSDEM 2018 and announcing a GNU Guix/Guile day! After getting home...

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Hello,

It sounds like the event was absolutely amazing — I'm well jealous of
everyone who was able to go!

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> That alone could justify pursuing the same approach in the coming
> years, IMO.  At the same time, a devroom at FOSDEM proper is a good
> way to reach out to new people, which is also a good thing.  Maybe we
> could do both?  :-)

Yes please! That would give me another chance to participate :D

Alex

Re: FOSDEM 2018 and announcing a GNU Guix/Guile day! After getting home...

[Ludovic Courtès]

Heya!

I confirm: this was a great Guix workshop and a great FOSDEM again!
It’s so intense, to me it’s like living two weeks on three days.  :-)

I really enjoyed the intimate and focused workshop we had, which is in
sharp contrast with the ever more crowded FOSDEM.  That alone could
justify pursuing the same approach in the coming years, IMO.  At the
same time, a devroom at FOSDEM proper is a good way to reach out to new
people, which is also a good thing.  Maybe we could do both?  :-)

Anyway, a big thank you to Manolis and to you Pjotr for taking care of
all this, to Eelco for joining us and for an insightful talk as always,
and to everyone for making it so pleasant to be there!

Ludo’.

FOSDEM 2018 and announcing a GNU Guix/Guile day! After getting home...

[Pjotr Prins]

Hi everyone.

This was huge. We had an amazing day with ~25 GNU Guix contributors
and the father and project leaders of Nix, and it blew me away how
much Guix has progressed in the last year and what interesting
discussions that led to. 

I think the next phase we are moving beyond a 'standard' package
manager with optimized builds, channels, workflows, provision and
orchestration.  All logical next steps because Guix is such a solid
foundation :).

FOSDEM was great too. It was busier than ever, but the crowd appears
to be increasingly experienced too. In other words the FOSS community
appears to be growing and feels very very solid!

I thank everyone for joining, especially when you realise how much
most of us had to travel. I, for one, feel very inspired!

Pj.