Gabriel Wicki <[email protected]> writes: > Hi there, fellow Guix! > > I recently picked up the great opportunity of a (paid) gig for the Free > Silicon Foundation (F-Si). The F-Si received a grant to push free > software in the EDA (Electronic Design Automation) space, where > proprietary software with license fees up to $1M/year/user dominate. > > Since there is plenty of free EDA software, the F-Si figured the main > goals were to map, package and advocate already available free software > solutions—and that's how they found me! > > We already packaged and pushed some packages, started fixing some more > and have quite a bunch in the pipeline. But free software is teamwork, > and thus informing a broader audience is key in our venture. And so is > coordinating efforts. > > There's lots of ideas, like: tagging more packages with a >> @acronym{EDA, Electronic Design Automation} > description, bundling packages to bigger toolsuites or helping software > developers to ditch GitHub (by showing them just how easy the use of > Cuirass is, once there is a package definition and Cuirass is up and > running). > > To reach that goal we will (of course) do the work, but also spread the > word, combine, organize and coordinate our efforts and help with the > onboarding of new, interested hackers. My personal goal is not just to > enable and empower more people to /use/ our packages, but to lure more > people in to join our efforts by showing both how simple software > packaging can be and how easily they can contribute to our wonderful > project. > >
Hi Gabriel, Sounds really cool :) Best of luck with that. > In the meantime I have the following concrete questions: > > 1. Should we introduce our efforts to the general public through a blog > post addressing both the Guix and the F-Si crowd? I have a draft ready > that I will soon send through the list. I am not sure if our blog is > really the right medium for that, since it is mostly a promotion of > Guix for electronics designers, but maybe this still fits? > > 2. How do we handle Codeberg Milestones? Could we create one and > organize our efforts through that tool? I think that'd be a great way to > coordinate work and lure in more helping hands (and minds). > Have you thought about making a team? That would also help with the milestones (giving team members the codeberg permissions to assign issues and pull requests). > 3. Could we eventually maybe build bundles of software (through > manifests) on our CI infrastructure? So people anxious to install and > use Guix on their machines could still get a good use of our efforts? > This seems like an (almost) free addition once packages are built > already. WDYT? > What’s a bundle? A set of packages that you would put together with guix pack? > > Best wishes > gabriel / gabber > > P.S. I'm looking forward to getting to know some of you in person at the > conference! Likewise. Have a nice day, Noé
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