Hi All. 👋 The organisers behind Guix London (Arun, Chris, Fabio, and Steve - all CCed) had the chance to have a quick planning call last Friday. This email is to share some elements of our conversation, in case it can be of interest to the broader community.
tl;dr: - Guix London will be renamed to Guix Social. - We'll be starting a "Guix outreach group", open to everyone who wants to discuss/organise events and social activities. A bit more fleshed out: Guix London started one year ago as a series of in-person events but most of what we do these days is fully or primarily online. We discussed whether it makes sense for us to continue having "London" as part of our name and eventually decided to go for something non-geographically specific, like "Guix Social". Parallel to this, we found yesterday's meeting useful and we're planning to have regular calls like that, to propose ideas and organise work around social activities. We'd like these calls to be open to everyone and not to be limited to Guix London or Guix Social. This could be the beginning of a "Guix outreach group", for all people who want to discuss or organise Guix-related events and social activities. If all goes well, this could become the playground to experiment with the principles of sociocracy that were discussed at Guix Days in February. Finally, we agreed that it'd be useful to have a page on the Guix website that lists (and links to) all the various communities - there's a few that came to mind already beyond Guix London. This would bring to light a small constellation of loosely coupled groups that exist around the project already and it'd make them more easily discoverable to newcomers. We might put a proposal/patch together in that sense in the coming days/weeks and submit it for review. We'll keep you posted on how things develop and on when we plan to meet up next time. In the meanwhile, let us know if you have any question or idea. Last not least, our next (online) meetup is a talk by Guix and Debian hacker Vagrant Cascadian - who'll be telling us about Reproducible Builds and the tools in Guix that facilitate reproducibility. Thursday 11th July 2024, from 5pm UTC. Save the date! https://meet.jit.si/london-guix-meetup Thanks, cheers, Guix London/Social. -- Fabio Natali https://fabionatali.com
