Just to clarify, we will organize a two day Guix conference before FOSDEM. That is pretty much in the box. We have room at ICAB, the place we were last year.
http://icab.be/ In addition to the Guix conference there is the possibility to have a dev-room at FOSDEM, but we need to apply for it. If the interest is as underwhelming as it is now I think we better forget about it. These things take effort to organize. I think the 'minimalistic languages for big ideas' room has appeal to a wider audience and some of our projects fit really well. Anyone any project ideas? Or do we just forget about it? How about: - Guile Guix build farm and Cuirass - Sheperd (Guile) Everyone, please think with us. Pj. On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:23:19AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > * Minimalistic Languages > > Every year FOSDEM allows for dev-rooms that need to appeal to a wider > audience and do not overlap with other dev-rooms. Programming > languages are popular and some of the large languages get their own, > such as Python and Rust. See the devrooms section on > > https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/ > > Manolis and I want to submit a plan for 'Minimalistic Languages - for > big ideas' dev-room. Good examples that fit the room are > > - mes and reproducible builds > - Guile and Guix > - Guile JIT > - Lua JIT > - Lua for scriptable projects (example?) > > Anyone anything to add to this list? More ideas is better. > > Other languages that could fit are Forth, Smalltalk, Tcl, Rebol. > Provided they have a big idea. > > Note that JVM languages and languages that compile to Javascript do > not fit the room. They probably have their own dev-rooms anyway. > Haskell and other Lisps may fit too (if they don't get their own > room). We think with enough good projects our dev-room will be of > interest. > > Pj & Manolis > > >
