We are hosting a GNU Guix and Guile day on Friday before FOSDEM (that is Feb 2nd.). We have a large room for 40 people at http://icab.be/ for the whole day. In the morning we'll have talks - and in the afternoon it is free discussion and hacking.
Write Manolis, Ludo or me if you would like to give a talk. We'll want to record them, so if anyone here has a camera and is willing to help out we will be very grateful! We'll set up a registration page a few weeks in advance because we need to know how many lunches to order. Note you can also stay at ICAB. It is not expensive and I have heard it is pretty good. FOSDEM is one of the greatest free software events in the world with 2 days of talks on some 30 tracks https://fosdem.org/2018/! You should consider going. Almost everyone I know who attends FOSDEM keeps coming back. There is something for everyone! Personally, I get inspired *every* time (sometimes detrimental to my free time the rest of the year). It is how I got to be part of Guix - it was a talk by Ludo. Hope to see you there! Pj.