01/01: website: Add post about 'Outreachy-2019-2020'.
boskovits pushed a commit to branch master in repository guix-artwork. commit 325aa54972e806a2aadf2464563ade62d8981a0c Author: Gábor Boskovits Date: Tue Oct 1 15:10:52 2019 +0200 website: Add post about 'Outreachy-2019-2020'. * website/posts/outreachy-winter-2019.md: New file. --- website/posts/outreachy-winter-2019.md | 41 ++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/posts/outreachy-winter-2019.md b/website/posts/outreachy-winter-2019.md new file mode 100644 index 000..1a8cb7e --- /dev/null +++ b/website/posts/outreachy-winter-2019.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +title: Join GNU Guix through Outreachy +date: 2019-10-01 18:00 +author: Gábor Boskovits +tags: Outreachy +--- +We are happy to announce that for the third time GNU Guix offers a +[three-month internship through Outreachy](https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-march-2020-internship-round/communities/gnu-guix/), +the inclusion program for groups traditionally underrepresented in free software +and tech. We currently propose two subjects to work on: + +1. [Create Netlink bindings in Guile](https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-march-2020-internship-round/communities/gnu-guix/#create-netlink-bindings-in-guile). +2. [Improve internationalization support for the Guix Data Service](https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-march-2020-internship-round/communities/gnu-guix/#improve-internationalization-support-the-guix-). + +[Eligible persons](https://www.outreachy.org/apply/eligibility/) should apply +[by November 22th](https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/). + +If you’d like to [contribute](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Contributing.html) +to computing freedom, Scheme, functional programming, or operating system +development, now is a good time to join us. Let’s get in touch on +[the mailing lists and on the #guix channel on the Freenode IRC network](https://guix.gnu.org/contact/)! + +Last year we had the pleasure to welcome Laura Lazzati as an Outreachy intern working on [documentation video creation](https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/documentation-video-creation/). + + About GNU Guix + +[GNU Guix](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix) is a transactional package +manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system that [respects +user +freedom](https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html). +Guix can be used on top of any system running the kernel Linux, or it +can be used as a standalone operating system distribution for i686, +x86_64, ARMv7, and AArch64 machines. + +In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports +transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, +per-user profiles, and garbage collection. When used as a standalone +GNU/Linux distribution, Guix offers a declarative, stateless approach to +operating system configuration management. Guix is highly customizable +and hackable through [Guile](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile) +programming interfaces and extensions to the +[Scheme](http://schemers.org) language.
01/01: website: Add post about Outreachy.
boskovits pushed a commit to branch master in repository guix-artwork. commit 9fd16c6fc1bebe4d64cee5377dd3abd82da8716b Author: Björn Höfling Date: Wed Oct 3 20:27:27 2018 +0200 website: Add post about Outreachy. * website/posts/outreachy-winter-2018.md: New file. Signed-off-by: Gábor Boskovits --- website/posts/outreachy-winter-2018.md | 39 ++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/posts/outreachy-winter-2018.md b/website/posts/outreachy-winter-2018.md new file mode 100644 index 000..3beb20b --- /dev/null +++ b/website/posts/outreachy-winter-2018.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +title: Join GNU Guix through Outreachy +date: 2018-10-03 11:03 +author: Gábor Boskovits +tags: Outreachy, Documentation +--- +We are happy to announce that for the second time this year, GNU Guix offers a +[three-month internship through Outreachy](https://www.outreachy.org/december-2018-march-2019-outreachy-internships/communities/gnu-guix/), +the inclusion program for groups traditionally underrepresented in free software +and tech. We currently propose one subject to work on: + +1. [Create user video documentation for GNU Guix](https://www.outreachy.org/december-2018-march-2019-outreachy-internships/communities/gnu-guix/#create-user-video-documentation-for-gnu-guix). + +[Eligible persons](https://www.outreachy.org/apply/eligibility/) should apply +[by November 22th](https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/). + +If you’d like to [contribute](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Contributing.html) +to computing freedom, Scheme, functional programming, or operating system +development, now is a good time to join us. Let’s get in touch on +[the mailing lists and on the #guix channel on the Freenode IRC network](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/contact/)! + +# About GNU Guix + +[GNU Guix](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/) is a transactional package +manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution or GuixSD is an +advanced distribution of the GNU system that relies on GNU Guix and +[respects the user's freedom](https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html). + +In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional +upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and +garbage collection. Guix uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, +except that packages are defined as native +[Guile](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/) modules, using extensions to +the [Scheme](https://schemers.org/) language. GuixSD offers a declarative +approach to operating system configuration management, and is highly customizable +and hackable. + +GuixSD can be used on an i686, x86_64 and armv7 machines. It is also possible to +use Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux system, including on mips64el +and aarch64.
