> I will be physically present at the hackathon in Cambridge. Most Guix developers are not in the US, but it would be great if you could find interested people in Cambridge.
> I have experience with Guile, but I haven't done much work with package > management systems before. That’s not a problem at all. Guix has a wonderful EDSL, so even people without programming experience should be able to package things. I highly recommend to check these slides [1]. > Would I still be useful? Yes! Everyone can help: designers, translators, documentation writers, etc. So bring a friend! > Is there anything that you would recommend I do to prepare for this > weekend besides install Guix and poke around? Try to write a package recipe for a simple program. You might want to start with the one that’s already present in ‘gnu/packages’, so you could check yourself. Then you could package something that you use daily. This talk [2] (slides [3]) provides a good overview and answers some popular questions. (For instance, it talks about supported build systems.) Since you know Guile, you could also help with command line tools. (Ask on the guix-devel list if you’re interested.) [1] https://gnu.org/software/guix/guix-ghm-andreas-20130823.pdf [2] http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2013/Ludovic_Courtes-GNU_Guix_the_computing_freedom_deployment_tool_.webm [3] https://gnu.org/software/guix/guix-ghm-ludo-20130823.pdf
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