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Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Tue Oct 17 11:18:41 2017 +0200

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+title: Coming events
+date: 2017-10-17 12:00
+author: Ludovic Courtès
+tags: Talks Reproducible Builds Research
+---
+
+Guix will be present on a few venues in the coming weeks:
+
+  1. On October 23rd, I (Ludovic Courtès) will be at
+     [GPCE](https://conf.researchr.org/track/gpce-2017/gpce-2017-GPCE-2017),
+     an academic conference co-located with SPLASH in Vancouver, Canada.
+     I will present the paper [_Code Staging in
+     GNUÂ Guix_](https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01580582/en), which discusses
+     the motivation for and genesis of
+     
[G-expressions](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/G_002dExpressions.html),
+     as well as recent improvements.  It’s an honor to be presenting
+     before an audience of experts in the field!
+  2. Christopher Baines will be at [freenode
+     #live](https://freenode.live/) in Bristol, UK, among well-known
+     free software activists from a variety of organizations and
+     projects.  Christopher will give a talk on October 29th to give an
+     overview of Guix and GuixSD.
+  3. On October 31st, Ricardo Wurmus, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, and possibly
+     more Guix hackers will join a dozen free software projects at the
+     [third Reproducible Build
+     Summit](https://reproducible-builds.org/events/berlin2017/) in
+     Berlin, Germany.  As in
+     [previous](/software/guix/news/reproducible-build-summit-2nd-edition.html)
+     
[years](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-12/msg00107.html),
+     we expect it to be a good time to share tips & tricks as well as a
+     longer-term vision with our fellow hackers!
+
+If you’re around in Vancouver, Bristol, or Berlin, let’s get in touch!
+:-)
+
+#### About GNU Guix
+
+[GNUÂ 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](http://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 or x86_64 machine.  It is also possible to
+use Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux system, including on
+mips64el, armv7, and aarch64.