Hi Ekaitz, Ekaitz Zarraga <[email protected]> writes:
> On 2025-09-21 11:58, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: >> Ekaitz Zarraga <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Maybe waiting >>> until GNU Taler really takes off is not a good strategy :) >> I do not volunteer, but exchange and merchant from >> <https://git.taler.net/> also are not yet packaged in Guix. But for >> Germany at least, it also still is illegal (it was illegal at least) to >> seriously run Taler exchanges with more than toy currencies, although it >> maybe is legal to use Taler to trade foreign Swiss francs. >> It is apparent that I do not actually know much here and of course >> IANAL. >> Regards, >> Florian > [...] > Taler is written in C so it shouldn't be that hard... (famous last words) > > And also, I'm not sure about its practicality, but we could try. > > I am personally interested on it getting wide adoption. But I'm not > sure if I understand Taler enough yet. We could try to get in touch > with them to try to package their software properly for Guix. > > Or even ask for grants to make them Guix friendly (deployment > included, I see they have ansible recipes in the repo) if that's a > significant amount of work. They are offering grants RIGHT NOW: I have an interest in Taler (and Gnunet) as well. > https://nlnet.nl/taler/ > > I'm not very available for packaging this, but I am very available and > wiling to help anyone write an application for a grant (I am an NLnet > grantee right now, and have been for 3 years, so I have experience > with the process). I wonder if an organization like Guixotic could apply for nlnet grants. Would you know? -- Thanks, Maxim
