FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

[Ludovic Courtès]

(+ Cc: guile-user.)

Pjotr Prins  skribis:

> FOSDEM Dev track deadline Oct. 9th. The more talk proposals we have
> for Guile/Guix, the better:
>
>   https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/TalkProposals
>
> If you have an idea for a talk on Guile/Guix, please add it before
> coming Monday. Even if you are not sure you can make it. We may find
> someone else to give the talk! Dave, how about your static web
> publishing system, and the the deployment stuff?
>
> We also need non-Guix talks! How about a Guile talk on monads, or
> Guile as part of other GNU projects? The language dev tracks tend to
> be interesting, let's make ours exciting!

Definitely!  Guile hackers, please consider joining a Guile + Guix
developer track at FOSDEM by giving a talk on your favorite topic!

Ludo’.

Re: Squee!! guile-squee brings postgresql bindings for guile via the FFI

[Greg Troxel]

Christopher Allan Webber  writes:

> I started a little experimental project recently called
> guile-squee... it's presently vey simple:
>
>   https://notabug.org/cwebber/guile-squee
>
> It's postgres bindings via the FFI.  This was originally for my own
> purposes because I need something to serialize json data in and out of
> postgres for my "activitystuff" project, but a few other Guile hackers
> have taken interest.  I just added David Pirotte and David Thompson as
> collaborators.

I am curious what you see as the advantages and disadvantages vs
guile-pg, which seems fairly mature.


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