I am a long time user of Guix and have been planning getting started into GNU Mes (which I want to port to the PowerISA). So I'll sign the open letter.
On Sun, 2024-07-21 at 15:14 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi! > > Ekaitz Zarraga <eka...@elenq.tech> skribis: > > > On 2024-07-21 01:15, Juliana Sims wrote: > > > Greetings comrades, > > > As many of you are likely already aware, the European Union has > > > recently made plans to cut funding to its Next Generation > > > Internet > > > (NGI) initiative which funds hundreds of FOSS projects, including > > > many related to Guix itself. The current plan is to shift these > > > funds into artifical intelligence research. > > > Petites Singularités has started an open letter to call on the EU > > > to > > > restore this funding. I would very much support Guix signing > > > onto > > > it. The document, and instructions for participating in this > > > effort, > > > can be found here: https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI > > > For full disclosure, my work on the Shepherd is funded by NGI > > > through NLnet. While my funding is secure, it would be a tragedy > > > if > > > the opportunity which I have been given to build something really > > > cool and (I hope) revolutionary were denied to others. > > > In solidarity, > > > Juli > > > > I signed the open letter myself. > > https://ekaitz.elenq.tech/ > > > > And we are discussing about writing something in Guix about this, > > too. > > Yes. We’re waiting for feedback from Guix maintainers but I think it > would make a lot of sense to publish the letter on the Guix blog. > > As a reminder, Guix has directly benefited from several NGI-funded > projects, and indirectly with support for Mes, the RISC-V port of the > bootstrap chain, Shepherd/Spritely, and Guile. > > Ludo’. >
