Hello Guix!
This year marks the tenth anniversary of Guix; what if we used that as a
pretext to join forces and organize “special events” throughout the
year? Obviously the Guix Days are already a great start!
Things that come to mind:
• Install parties. After the upcoming release, interested folks could
team up with their local GNU/Linux user groups, or with colleagues,
friends, enthusiasts to organize install parties. We could collect
those events on a web page. That’s a great way to connect people,
to debunk fears and myths, and also to get invaluable feedback that
will allow us to improve the installation process.
• Talks. Presenting Guix to an audience who doesn’t know about it:
could be again your local GNU/Linux user group, colleagues, sysadmin
or techie conferences, scientific conferences, etc. There are many
people here who could do a great job at introducing Guix and sharing
their own experience!
• Articles. Get an introductory article in your local GNU/Linux or
sysadmin magazine or in some on-line magazine or specialized
journal!
• Hackathons. Organizing hackathons focused on specific topics: again
it could be local hackathons focused on getting software your
organization or friends need packaged for Guix, it could be on-line
hackathon focused on core features, Software Heritage and Disarchive
integration, scientific workflows, documentation (like the recent
meetups jgart & Julien organized!), translation, etc.
• Sharing enthusiasm, freedom, and collective work! :-)
Icing on the cake if Luis, Ricardo, and other artists among us come up
with some sort of a birthday logo, music, and whatnot!
What do people think?
Ludo’.
