Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome! Let's do FOSDEM 2017 (we are IN!)

2016-10-06 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
On 2016-10-05 16:09, Pjotr Prins wrote: Good news! We have just been informed that GNU Guile/Guix has a half day devroom for FOSDEM 2017 again. https://fosdem.org/2017/ Book your resp. flights/trains/boats! Pj. Yeah! That is good news! I will prepare my slides (and finish my project ;)

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome! Let's do FOSDEM 2017 (we are IN!)

2016-10-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pjotr Prins skribis: > Good news! > > We have just been informed that GNU Guile/Guix has a half day devroom > for FOSDEM 2017 again. > > https://fosdem.org/2017/ Awesome, congrats! Thank you! Ludo’.

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome! Let's do FOSDEM 2017 (we are IN!)

2016-10-05 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
W00t! Fantastic, well done :-) Alex Pjotr Prins writes: > Good news! > > We have just been informed that GNU Guile/Guix has a half day devroom > for FOSDEM 2017 again. > > https://fosdem.org/2017/ > > Book your resp. flights/trains/boats! > > Pj. > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:28:56AM

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome! Let's do FOSDEM 2017 (we are IN!)

2016-10-05 Thread Pjotr Prins
Good news! We have just been informed that GNU Guile/Guix has a half day devroom for FOSDEM 2017 again. https://fosdem.org/2017/ Book your resp. flights/trains/boats! Pj. On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:28:56AM +0200, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote: > > Sounds great ??? glad to hear it :-) > >

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome! Let's do FOSDEM 2017

2016-08-30 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Sounds great — glad to hear it :-) Alex Pjotr Prins writes: > Hi Alex, > > The proposal has been submitted to FOSDEM and you are on it :) > > Pj. > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 09:37:35AM +0200, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Wow, how time flies! Last year was definitely amazing, and

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome! Let's do FOSDEM 2017

2016-08-29 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi, Wow, how time flies! Last year was definitely amazing, and I'd love to be involved to make that happen again. I'd be very happy to help out organizing stuff on the day if we still need volunteers for that. Alternatively, I could also help with the proposal for the event. I'm afraid I've

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome! Let's do FOSDEM 2017 - add talk proposals

2016-08-26 Thread Pjotr Prins
Proposals for talks should be added here: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/TalkProposals The more talks proposed the better! Generally, talks will be 20 minutes. The Google Summer of Code students should post a talk - even if you can't make it. It is an advertisement of your project.

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome! Let's do FOSDEM 2017

2016-08-05 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
On 2016-07-26 04:19, Pjotr Prins wrote: FOSDEM 2017 call for proposals has started: https://fosdem.org/2017/news/2016-07-20-call-for-participation/ We need help with writing the proposal (we can build on last years this time), we need help on selecting talks and we need help creating the

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome! Let's do FOSDEM 2017

2016-07-26 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Pjotr, On 26/07/2016 4:19, Pjotr Prins wrote: > FOSDEM 2017 call for proposals has started: [...] > Who wants to be part of this exciting day? \o I've never done anything like this before, but would like to help out if and where I can. Kind regards, T G-R

FOSDEM 2016 was awesome! Let's do FOSDEM 2017

2016-07-25 Thread Pjotr Prins
FOSDEM 2017 call for proposals has started: https://fosdem.org/2017/news/2016-07-20-call-for-participation/ We need help with writing the proposal (we can build on last years this time), we need help on selecting talks and we need help creating the schedule. Finally, if we get a slot, we need

Re: FOSDEM 2016 slides

2016-02-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Alex Sassmannshausen writes: >> >> These are great — and I hope I can use guile-config. > > Thank you! And great you want to use it — I'll try to get a proper > release ASAP then :-) Cool, thank you! > I'd definitely be really keen in getting a config file writer/reader > working using wisp

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

2016-02-02 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Alex Sassmannshausen writes: > Hello, > > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hi there! >> >> I just came back from FOSDEM where we had an awesome Guile devroom with >> nice people and great talks! > > I really want to echo Ludo's sentiments. I had a great time in our dev > room and it was really nice

Re: FOSDEM 2016 slides

2016-02-02 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Alex Sassmannshausen skribis: > >> Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > > [...] > >>> I tend to write quick commandline tools which sometimes begin to grow >>> wild. Elegant commandline parsing is still one of the things with >>> which I had

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

2016-02-02 Thread Manolis Ragkousis
I want to thank everyone for this awesome experience and I am really looking forward for the next time. It is awesome meeting the people behind the emails and learn so many new things from you. And Pjotr, thank you for taking care of everything :-) Εις το επανιδείν as we say in greek. Manolis

Re: FOSDEM 2016 slides

2016-02-02 Thread Manolis Ragkousis
Here are my slides from my talk in the Guile devroom. https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/guixhurd/attachments/slides/1219/export/events/attachments/guixhurd/slides/1219/guix_to_hurd_fosdem_20160130.pdf I want to thank everyone for this awesome experience and especially Pjotr for organizing

Re: FOSDEM 2016 slides

2016-02-01 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Arne, Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > Hi Alex, > >> And my slides from the FOSDEM devroom (for my Guile Config >> presentation), for anyone interested (copying in Guile User as it isn't >> Guix related…): >> >> http://alex.pompo.co/presentations/fosdem-16-conf.html > > These are great — and I

Re: FOSDEM 2016 slides

2016-02-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Sassmannshausen skribis: > Arne Babenhauserheide writes: [...] >> I tend to write quick commandline tools which sometimes begin to grow >> wild. Elegant commandline parsing is still one of the things with >> which I had problems in Guile, and I hope that

FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

2016-02-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi there! I just came back from FOSDEM where we had an awesome Guile devroom with nice people and great talks! https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/gnu_guile/ Some of the slides are already on-line, and hopefully videos will follow, assuming everything went well with recordings (which is

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

2016-02-01 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Nala, Nala Ginrut writes: > On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 10:04 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> The room of 80 seats was full pretty much all the time, and I think we >> were all excited to see so many people stop by the devroom. Many shared >> the impression that we were at an important moment of

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

2016-02-01 Thread Nala Ginrut
On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 11:41 +0100, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote: > Hi Nala, > > Nala Ginrut writes: > > > On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 10:04 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> The room of 80 seats was full pretty much all the time, and I think we > >> were all excited to see so many people stop by the

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

2016-02-01 Thread Nala Ginrut
On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 10:04 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > The room of 80 seats was full pretty much all the time, and I think we > were all excited to see so many people stop by the devroom. Many shared > the impression that we were at an important moment of Guile’s history. > The transition

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

2016-02-01 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi there! > > I just came back from FOSDEM where we had an awesome Guile devroom with > nice people and great talks! I really want to echo Ludo's sentiments. I had a great time in our dev room and it was really nice to put faces to the names I see popping up in

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

2016-02-01 Thread Ben Woodcroft
On 01/02/16 19:04, Ludovic Courtès wrote: The room of 80 seats was full pretty much all the time, and I think we were all excited to see so many people stop by the devroom. Many shared the impression that we were at an important moment of Guile’s history. A good start to 2016, the year that

Re: FOSDEM 2016 slides

2016-02-01 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Alex, > And my slides from the FOSDEM devroom (for my Guile Config > presentation), for anyone interested (copying in Guile User as it isn't > Guix related…): > > http://alex.pompo.co/presentations/fosdem-16-conf.html These are great — and I hope I can use guile-config. I tend to write quick

Re: FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

2015-11-09 Thread Pjotr Prins
Oh yes, Guile has the devroom from 10-14 hrs. During lunch we may have one overlapping hour with the LUA folks - so talks that cross-over would be interesting too. On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 06:21:17PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Just a quick heads-up. Submit your FOSDEM talk to >

Re: FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

2015-11-09 Thread Pjotr Prins
Hi everyone, Just a quick heads-up. Submit your FOSDEM talk to https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16/ with a title and a short description (one paragraph is enough). Add whether you aim for 15 or 30 minutes. If you are unsure, ping me directly. Thanks, Pj.

Re: FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

2015-10-31 Thread Pjotr Prins
Submit a talk! Talks can be 15 or 30 minutes w. Q We'll have 3-4 hours to distribute. # GNU Guile devroom call for talks @FOSDEM 2016 For the first time ever, we have a GNU Guile devroom at FOSDEM on January 30, 2016. The call for talk proposals is open! Important members of the GNU Guile

Re: FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

2015-10-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pjotr Prins skribis: > FOSDEM has approved a GNU Guile devroom. We will have a 80 person room > for half a day on Saturday January 30th. This is absolutely fabulous > as FOSDEM is one of the main FOSS conferences in the world with > thousands of people attending.

FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

2015-10-23 Thread Pjotr Prins
Exciting news! FOSDEM has approved a GNU Guile devroom. We will have a 80 person room for half a day on Saturday January 30th. This is absolutely fabulous as FOSDEM is one of the main FOSS conferences in the world with thousands of people attending. We will have a call for participation soon.

Re: FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

2015-10-23 Thread Pjotr Prins
Note that we will have a Guix meet and talks too. On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 08:49:39PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > Exciting news! > > FOSDEM has approved a GNU Guile devroom. We will have a 80 person room > for half a day on Saturday January 30th. This is absolutely fabulous > as FOSDEM is one of

Re: FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

2015-10-23 Thread Pjotr Prins
Exciting news! FOSDEM has approved a GNU Guile devroom. We will have a 80 person room for half a day on Saturday January 30th. This is absolutely fabulous as FOSDEM is one of the main FOSS conferences in the world with thousands of people attending. We will have a call for participation soon.

FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

2015-09-26 Thread 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

Re: FOSDEM 2016

2015-09-01 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, Pjotr over on guix-devel has proposed we organise a Guile developer track at the next FOSDEM (January 2016). There seems to be a pretty good reception on the guix mailing lists, and we're still looking for ideas for talks, etc. If you'd be interested in giving a talk, check out