Hi Guix! I think it's time to start organising the Guix Days, traditionally held around Fosdem.
During our guix-europe assembly, we discussed some options and everyone agreed they wanted a two-day event, online just as Fosdem. I attached a proposed blog post that we should put on the website as soon as we agree on the first details. I suggest that we have these days right after Fosdem, Monday and Tuesday. This should give us just a few more days to prepare, as I think we're starting pretty late already. If you prefer to have them before fosdem, I can change the blog post of course. As for how it'll be organised. I propose to do something similar to what we need in November 2020. I'd love to get some talks from people outside the usual maintainers and commiters, to have an overview of the diversity of people and usage around Guix. Last year, we asked speakers to prepare a video in advance, and they would only have an extended Q&A/discussion session. I think this year we should have the same process, but ask for a short (3-5 minutes) talk at the start of the session to refresh our minds on the main points of the presentation before discussions start. Of course, one of our co-maintainers should have a session on a retrospective (what happened last year in Guix) and lead discussions on the future of Guix. We should reserve plenty of time for this session. In addition, I'd like to invite people to submit discussion ideas and be free of having to make a presentation if they prefer (BoF). I'd also like to "innovate" and have a session of lightning talks, where people would only have to give a short, live presentation on any topic related to Guix (I'm thinking short presentation of a project where you use guix, of something you're doing with guix, how you found guix, a story of your first days with guix, ...). We can also replace that with a presentation round at the beginning of the conference if we don't have enough lightning talks. The Guix Days have never been a "real" conference, and always had a lot of room for discussions that start on the spot. I'd like to emulate this by keeping a lot of time out of the talk sessions to discuss whatever comes up naturally during our discussions. Also, we need to secure a BBB instance :) WDYT?
title: Announcing the second online Guix Days Conference date: 2021-12-10 00:00 author: Guix Hackers slug: online-guix-days-2022-announce-1 tags: Conference, Community --- The Guix hackers are very happy to announce the second online Guix Days Conference on **7 & 8 February 2022**. This conference is open to everyone and will be held entirely online. Want to speak? Submit your proposal! Important dates: 1. **January 21**: Deadline for talks proposal. 1. **January 28**: Deadline for releasing your pre-recorded talks. 1. **February 2**: Release of the schedule. 1. **February 7**: Conference day! 1. **February 8**: Conference day!  The agenda of these two days is: - pre-recorded talks with live question and answer sessions - birds of a feather (BoF) sessions - lightning round talks, if possible - retrospective and future of Guix - hack together Talks will be released **before** the conference day, **watch them as soon as possible**! And **no registration fee**. ##### Until January 21: talks proposal Propose your talks by sending them to `guix-d...@gnu.org`. Feel free to drop in `#guix` on irc.freenode.net to discuss what you would like to talk about before submitting. :) You can choose one of the following formats: - Standard talk. 15-45 minutes pre-recorded presentation and a 5 minutes lightning talk. The 5-minute presentation will be live, to refresh our minds, followed by a 30 minutes live Q&A. - BoF (birds of a feather, for a session with a small group who wants to talk about a specific topic) with no presentation. You may prepare something live to spark conversations. - Lightning talk with a 5 minutes live presentation In addition to the format you would like to choose, please describe your session with 10 lines or more (for lightning talks, at least 1 sentence). Once you have sent your proposal, you will be notified in the coming days whether your talk be part of the Guix Day. Submit earlier to get more time to prepare your session! Even for live presentation, please prepare a back-up pre-recorded talk, so we can play it if you cannot attend or have a technical problem during the Guix days. The deadline for short presentations (5 minutes) is February 4. We welcome all kinds of topics from the community, especially your own experience with Guix, your cool projects that involve Guix in some way, infrastructure around guix (translations, continuous integration, ...), and any subject you feel should be discussed during the conference. Have a look at the topics from [the last conference](/blog/2020/online-guix-day-announce-1/) for ideas, but don't hesitate to innovate in your proposals! ##### January 21 (or before) - 28: prepare your talk The aim of the pre-recorded talks is to demonstrate new features, what you are hacking on, introduce the subject for easing the live question and answer sessions or BoFs. These pre-recorded talks should be **15-45 minutes long**. Feel free to ask if you need help with the recording. You are free to choose whichever storage platform you want (e.g., your own website, a PeerTube instance, a Nextcloud instance, etc.), but we will need to have access to the original file so we can publish it later on [audio-video.gnu.org](https://audio-video.gnu.org). Your video must be released under a license that at least allows anyone to copy and share it, for any purpose. You will have to release the video publicly before January 28, so everyone has a chance to see it before the conference. If you are not able to do so (for instance your server cannot handle a huge load), you can alternatively send us a private link to the video and we will upload it on [audio-video.gnu.org](https://audio-video.gnu.org). If you decide to do so, you will need to have the video ready by January 26. ##### January 28-February 6: watch the talks But don't miss the [Fosdem](https://fosdem.org) conference either! Be sure to watch the pre-recorded talks before the conference. There will be **no presentations** on the 7 nor 8. ##### February 7-8: participate Coming soon! Stay tuned. #### Code of Conduct This online conference is an official Guix event. Therefore, the [Code of Conduct](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/CODE-OF-CONDUCT) applies. Please be sure to read it beforehand! #### About GNU Guix [GNU Guix](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix) is a transactional package manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system that [respects user freedom](https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html). Guix can be used on top of any system running the Hurd or the Linux kernel, or it can be used as a standalone operating system distribution for i686, x86_64, ARMv7, and AArch64 machines. In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection. When used as a standalone GNU/Linux distribution, Guix offers a declarative, stateless approach to operating system configuration management. Guix is highly customizable and hackable through [Guile](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile) programming interfaces and extensions to the [Scheme](http://schemers.org) language.
