A list of proposed talks for a GNU Guile/Guix track @FOSDEM 2017
A friendly introduction to GNU Guile and GNU Guix
by Ricardo Wurmus
Guile programming and optimisations
by Andy Wingo
Network freedom live at the REPL
by Christopher Allan Webber
Much has happened over the last year in terms of advancing network freedom both within and external to Guile. We'll see a live demonstration of Pubstrate, a federated social networking toolkit as well as reference implementation for [ActivityPub https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ ActivityPub] and ActivityStreams, written in and for GNU Guile.
Asynchronous programming has also gotten much more interesting in the last year for Guile hackers, with improvements in Guile core and new libraries such as 8sync, A-Sync, and Fibers. An overview of these systems will be given, as well as suggestions on how you can get hacking towards liberating network users today!
Adding GNU/Hurd support to GNU Guix and GuixSD
by Manolis Ragkousis
GNU Guix can successfully cross-build any package for the Hurd and produce
the bootstrap-tarballs to build packages with Guix natively on such a system.
It can also build and deploy a GuixSD image from a Debian/Hurd system.
Game programming with GNU Guile
by David Thompson
Web programming with GNU Guile
Shepherd the systemd replacement
Programming language support in GNU Guix
by Pjotr Prins
Virtual environments and targets such as CONDA in GNU Guix
by Pjotr Prins
Software distribution using Gnunet
Latest Guile developments
by Andy Wingo
Latest GNU Guix developments
by Ludovic Courtès
Getting started with guile-wiredtiger
by Amirouche Boubekki (amz3)
wiredtiger is a NoSQL database engine. Often dubbed key/value store, we will
see that indeed it can be used like leveldb, bsddb or GNU dbm as a simple (ordered)
hashmap but also as a (performant) framework for data persistence that can replace
your favorite SQL queries with Scheme goodness (and pieces of minikanren).
Proposed talks for a GNU Guile/Guix track @FOSDEM 2016
Consider this bit an archive! For the actual talks see
FOSDEM 2016
A friendly introduction to GNU Guile and GNU Guix
by Ricardo Wurmus
Paving a path to greater network freedom
by Christopher Allan Webber
How can Guix and Guile participate in increasing network freedom? Discussions include leveraging Guix to make server deployment and maintainance a better experience, as well as ideas in how Guile could provide leadership in web development and federation.
The Guile community we could have (Or: solving Worse is More Accessible)
by Christopher Allan Webber
Expanding on this email, an exploration of how we could grow Guile into a more diverse community while leveraging its existing strengths. Examinations will be made of what has and hasn't worked for similar language and programming communities.
Latest Guile developments
by Andy Wingo
Latest GNU Guix developments
by Ludovic Courtès
GNU Guix is the package manager for the GNU project. It is based on Guile and in this talk I am going to
present gexps and related APIs
Adding GNU/Hurd support to GNU Guix and GuixSD
by Manolis Ragkousis
GNU Guix can successfully cross-build any package for the Hurd and produce
the bootstrap-tarballs to build packages with Guix natively on such a system.
It can also build and deploy a GuixSD image from a Debian/Hurd system.
Adding Python and Ruby support to GNU Guix
by Dave Thompson & Pjotr Prins
We added support for Python and Ruby packages to GNU Guix. We
think the process of adding them is interesting for others who would
like to support their language and or software stack.
GNUNet publishing of Guix using Guile
by Remy
As a GSoC project GNUNet support was added.
Adding reproducible bioinformatics pipeline support to GNU Guix
by Ricardo Wurmus & Pjotr Prins
Bioinformatics requires rapid turn around times in software packaging. This leads to many ad hoc installations
which lead to hard to maintain systems and little chance of reproducibility. In this talk we will discuss
software dependency graphs and explain why GNU Guix lends itself to deploying reproducible bioninformatics pipelines.
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