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Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Jan 11 16:40:13 2016 +0100

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+Title: Guix starts fundraising campaign with support from the FSF
+
+The GNUÂ Guix project is glad to announce its first fundraising campaign, 
supported by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).  As the FSF 
[https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf-announces-support-for-gnu-guix 
announced today], the campaign’s primary goal is to help increase the capacity 
of the project’s build farm.  We believe Guix offers a great tool set to 
increase the freedom and autonomy of computer users, and we are excited that 
the FSF supports the project!
+
+Until now, the build farm behind hydra.gnu.org had been working on hardware 
and hosting [https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/donate/ generously provided] by 
several organizations and individuals—thank you!  To cope with the growing 
number of [https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/ packages] and users, we 
felt that the time has come to call to the community to strengthen the 
project’s infrastructure.  Our first action will be to change the build farm’s 
front-end, which orchestrates bui [...]
+
+Donations can be made on the 
[https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=50 FSF-hosted page 
for the campaign].  10% of your contribution will also go to help the FSF 
[https://fsf.org/appeal meet its current fundraising goal].
+
+GNUÂ Guix also welcomes contributions, both technical and non-technical: 
testing, adding new packages, writing code, translating messages and package 
descriptions to your native language, helping with Web design, and more.  Check 
out [http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/contribute/ the contribution page]!
+
+== About GNU Guix ==
+
+[http://www.gnu.org/software/guix GNU Guix] is a functional 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 
[http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html respects 
the user's freedom].
+
+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 
[http://www.gnu.org/software/guile Guile] modules, using extensions to the 
[http://schemers.org Scheme] language.  GuixSD offers a declarative approach to 
operating system configuration management, and is  [...]
+
+GuixSD can be used on an i686 or x86_64 machine.  It is also possible to use 
Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux system, including on mips64el and 
armv7.