Hi, Guixers and Guilers! It is a great pleasure to introduce you to Guixotic, our new worker cooperative specializing in GNU Guix and Guile:
https://guixotic.coop/ We are currently three people that you may already be familiar with: Maxim Cournoyer (apteryx), Robin Templeton (lispwitch), and John Kehayias (podiki). Our ultimate goal is to improve, strengthen, and expand Guix and Guile by building an ecosystem of services around these technologies. The aim is to transform a hobby into a viable livelihood, thereby fostering and accelerating their development and adoption. We want to see these projects we love and have come to rely on continue to grow, be used in all sorts of applications and businesses, and be part of a healthy free software ecosystem. Besides ourselves, we want to see opportunities for many more people to make a living working with Guix and Guile. If this proves successful, we hope to be a model for what is possible with a collectively managed free software worker cooperative. We are all equal owners, and future members will be, too. We plan to have more members in the future and be part of a group of businesses and organizations centering on Guile and Guix. So, what exactly will we be doing? We offer services from education and training to commercial support, from DevOps to system administration, from packaging to new feature development. In short, everything Guix and Guile. This is not meant to subsume the work each of us already does in these and related projects, or have some "special class" of users or clients influencing these projects. Rather, this is a way to allow us to work full-time contributing. The idea is that paid projects, training, support, etc., will help improve Guix and Guile for everyone, while also supporting us to do more of the work we already love to do. It's about placing the best of our energy, talent, and interests where it matters the most to us, instead of having these restricted to late-night hobbies and hacks (don't worry, we'll continue doing that too ;-)). Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions, or feedback. If you know of someone or an organization/business that would be benefit from our services, we would love to hear about them. You can contact us via mailto:cont...@guixotic.coop. Equally useful is spreading the word. If you don't currently have any projects for us but would be interested in supporting our work, it's possible to contribute to our funding via Liberapay: <https://liberapay.com/guixotic>. As you might expect, we are very excited to be embarking on this journey, and this is our first official announcement anywhere. And, of course, we're a little nervous with what the future may hold as we feel this isn't just about us succeeding, but opening it up for more people to do this work, too. Nonetheless, we can't wait to see what the future holds. Thanks for being part of this community and for reading this far! On behalf of Guixotic, Maxim, Robin and John. [0] http://guixotic.coop/ [1] https://liberapay.com/guixotic
