Hi all,
Just a quick reminder for the February hybrid Guix London meetup later today. See you soon! > Hi all, > > The next Guix London meetup is scheduled for Monday 19th February, 6 pm > London time (i.e. UTC) onward. Join us in person or online. Address and > link are below. > > - In person, from 6:00 pm: 20 Farringdon Street, EC4A 4AB > - Online, from 6:10 pm: https://meet.jit.si/london-guix-meetup > > If you attend in person, please make sure you RSVP and share your full > name (or a nickname) so that we can register you at the building's > reception. > > The main part of the meetup will be a talk on how to create custom Guix > packages or package variants, by Steve George a.k.a. Futurile. If you > have any Guix or Guile related question or topic, there should be the > time to talk about that too. All welcome! Talk abstract follows. > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > Guix Packaging: creating local package variants simply! > > Just like Gentoo or Arch Linux, every package in Guix is > source-available, and can be built by the user. In this entry level talk > we'll look at how to customise Guix packages. Guix radically simplifies > the steps to building our own packages through its declarative and > functional approach. This makes building our own package variants very > accessible—opening up the possibilities for a user to: > > - Keep applications up to the latest versions > - Try out upstream development versions > - Patch applications to add features > - Tune applications to their hardware > > In this talk, Steve will share examples and introduce how to use Guix's > programming interface for package building. We'll also contextualise > where these capabilities sit in the journey of learning to package and > contribute packages to Guix. > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > # About > > For any question, please get in touch via any of the following channels: > > - Arun: arunis...@systemreboot.net > - Fabio: m...@fabionatali.com and https://octodon.social/@fabionatali > - Guix Devel mailing list: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guix-devel/ > > Guix London has no official ties with the Guix project. We commit to > promote the project and to always operate with the best intentions; any > mistake that we might make is due to us, Guix London, not the Guix > project. > > # Code of conduct > > We, Guix London's organisers, intend to create an open, friendly, and > safe environment where people from the most diverse backgrounds can get > together, learn about, teach, and discuss Guix and related topics in a > welcoming and constructive way. > > To this end, Guix London adheres to the Guix project's official Code of > Conduct. Please make sure you familiarise with the document and that you > share its principles before attending our events. > > Should you at any time before, during, or after one of our events want > to raise an issue or discuss any CoC-related topic, please do not > hesitate to reach out to the organisers at the contacts below. > > - Arun Isaac, arunis...@systemreboot.net > - Fabio Natali, m...@fabionatali.com > > # Get involved > > Should you be interested in becoming a Guix London organiser, please let > us know. It'd be great to have you onboard. No previous Guix knowledge > is required. If you're interested (or simply want to know more), do not > hesitate to reach out to us! > > Similarly, if you want to present on any Guix-related topic at one of > our events, that's also great. We'd love to hear from you. > > Regards, > Arun
