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Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun Feb 4 10:44:00 2018 +0100

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+#+TITLE: GNU Guix—State of affairs
+
+* Welcome, Guix!
+* acknowledgments
+ - the organizers: Manolis Ragkousis and Pjotr Prins
+ - the sponsors: GeneNetwork and Guix Europe
+ - the audience: you!
+* great 2017 achievements
+** Guix
+ - aarch64 port
+ - steady stream of security fixes
+ - ‘guix pack’
+ - packages (+2000), services
+ - ~75% reproducible packages
+ - build systems: go, font, meson, etc.
+ - better error reporting
+ - switch to Guile 2.2!
+ - installer script
+** GuixSD
+ - UEFI support
+ - containerized system services
+ - 'guix system disk-image -t iso9660'
+ - multiple bootloader support: GRUB, U-Boot, etc.
+ - GuixSD on ARMv7 \o/
+** infrastructure
+*** berlin.guixsd.org — thanks, MDC & Ricardo!
+*** Cuirass is getting (much) better + ‘guix publish’
+** events
+*** releases
+**** only two! (May and December)
+*** some blog posts
+*** Guix-HPC announced in May
+*** talks (see https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/tags/talks/)
+ FOSDEM (Feb., BE)
+ BOB Konferenz (Feb., BE)
+ BOSC (July, CZ)
+ RSE (Sep., UK)
+ freenode #live (Oct., UK)
+ GPCE (Oct., CA)
+ Reproducible Build Summit (Oct., DE)
+** community
+ - ~40 monthly contributors (we reached a plateau?)
+ - 1 GSoC student (reepca, on the daemon rewrite in Scheme)
+ - guix-patches backlog is okay but needs love :-)
+ - Ricardo’s “Mumi” will help?
+* challenges for 2018
+ - merge ‘core-updates’ more often
+   - corollary: make build farm more efficient
+     - corollary: improve Cuirass
+     - corollary: add a monitoring service on build machines
+ - ‘guix pull’ faster (see ‘wip-pull-reload’)
+ - grafts…
+ - channels
+ - recursive ‘guix import’
+ - live import: ‘guix package -i cpan!Foo::Bar’
+ - help on less-technical things: events, GSoC, web site, blog, etc.
+ - panel later today!