This page is for tracking anything related with the 2025 GNU Guix/Guile conference and hackathon — right before FOSDEM2025 and the Minimalism dev room.
GNU Guix is growing rapidly and has gone from a software packaging system to a full tool stack aimed at reproducible software deployment and development.
GNU Guix is a toolkit that allows developers to integrate reproducible software deployment into their applications—as opposed to leaving it up to the user. GNU Guix is based on the GNU Guile programming language which makes it a very versatile and hackable (in the good sense) environment.
When?
Thursday, January 30 and January 31 2025, the two days before FOSDEM
The ICAB is unfortunately not well suited for wheelchairs as there are many steps between rooms though we help where we can.
Programme
We will have some talks in the morning and hacking and discussions the rest of the day. Two days of GNU Guix bliss.
The event targets an audience of Guix developers and users.
In pure “unconference” style, the program will be made by participants as we go, with hands-on sessions organized in sub-groups. Possible session topics:
GNU Guix status update & road map
GNU Guix online documentation
Alternative target architectures (ARM, RISCV, POWER etc.)
Sustaining our infrastructure: planning to keep qa.guix, data.guix, ci.guix, etc. afloat
Spritely, Guix, and Guile—the amazing trio!
Next steps for GSoC paramaterized packages
Re-imagining the Guix CLI, now with actual forethought and consistency!
Bootstrapping Guix and bootstrapping languages, where we are and what's needed
Here's five more rde features I like
The Romance of Guix (Dob (talk) 14:55, 17 January 2025 (EST))
Add your own topics above!
Code of conduct
Be aware that attendees implicitly abide by the code of conduct as stated by FOSDEM. As this is a FOSDEM fringe event the organizers can be contacted in case of a problem.
How to register?
Add your name here and/or send a message to Manolis <manolis837@gmail.com> or Pjotr <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>. Please email us if you would need on-site childcare to be able to attend.
We also have a Matrix room in case you'd like to come chat with us before the event.
Participants
Pjotr Prins
Wilko Meyer
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice (Thu) / Simon Tournier (Fri)
Alexey Abramov
Fabio Natali (fnat)
Oleg Bocharov (Sharlatan Hellseher)
Efraim Flashner
Tobias Alexandra Platen
Ludovic Courtès
Bo Svangård (Attending first day, 30/1) / Martin T (Fri)
Rutger van Beusekom
Noé Lopez
Collin Doering
Kristoffer Ström
Christine Lemmer-Webber
David Thompson
Jessica Tallon
Juliana Sims
Amy Grinn
Arun Isaac
Tanguy Le Carrour
Janneke Nieuwenhuizen
Christopher Baines
Julien Lepiller
Steve George (futurile)
Arjan Adriaanse
Andreas Enge
Nicolas Graves
Farzaneh Badiei (Thursday) / Jonathan McHugh (Friday only, and absent from 2 to 5 pm)
Jelle Licht
Lio Novelli
Jurij Podgorsek
Danny Milosavljevic
Romain Garbage
Peter Polidoro
Norah Schat
Samuel Matthiesen
Panos Alevropoulos
Zathia Jacquesson-Ahmad
Olivier Rojon
Fredrik Salomonsson
Danny O'Brien
Rune Juhl (from ~noon Thursday)
Martin T (Thursday) / Jean SIMARD (woshilapin) (from ~noon Friday)
Gabor Boskovits
Mark Meyer
Fernando Ayats
jgart (Jorge Gomez)
Darius Kazemi
Andy Wingo (Friday only) / Stas Vlasov (Thursday)
Bertrand Mathelier
Mihael Verček
Phoebe Harris
Ashish SHUKLA
Pjotr Kourzanov
FREE (Thursday) / Stas Vlasov (Friday)
Ingar
Rostislav Svoboda
Yevhen Shulha
Daniel Littlewood (Friday only)
Registration is closed at 60. Unfortunately the number of seats is limited.
Costs
Attendance is free. We will ask a voluntary contribution for consumptions. Please get in touch with the Guix Foundation treasurer.
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