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Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Thu Apr 26 17:01:57 2018 +0200

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+title: Guix welcomes Outreachy, GSoC, and Guix-HPC interns
+date: 2018-04-26 17:00
+author: Ludovic Courtès
+tags: GSoC, Outreachy, High-performance computing
+---
+
+We are thrilled to announce that five people will join Guix as interns
+over the next few months!  As part of Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC),
+under the umbrella of the GNU Project, three people are joining us:
+
+  - Tatiana Sholokhova will work on a Web interface for the Guix
+    continuous integration (CI) tool,
+    [Cuirass](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-cuirass.git),
+    similar in spirit to [that of Hydra](https://hydra.gnu.org).
+    Cuirass was started as part of [GSoC
+    
2016](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2016/gnu-guix-welcomes-four-students-for-gsoc/).
+  - uniq10 will take over the build daemon rewrite in Scheme, a project
+    started as part of last year's GSoC by reepca.  The existing code
+    lives in the [`guile-daemon`
+    branch](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?h=guile-daemon).
+    [Results from last
+    year](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-08/msg00267.html)
+    already got us a long way towards a drop-in replacement of the
+    current C++ code base.
+  - Ioannis P. Koutsidis will work on implementing semantics similar to
+    that of systemd unit files in [the
+    Shepherd](https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd), the “init system”
+    (PID 1) used on GuixSD.
+
+Through [Outreachy](https://www.outreachy.org), the inclusion program
+for groups underrepresented in free software and tech, one person will
+join:
+
+  - Sahithi Yarlagadda will work [improving the user experience for the
+    `guix package` command-line
+    
tool](https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/gnu-guix/project/improve-the-user-experience-for-the-guix-package-c/).
+
+Finally, we are welcoming one intern as part of the
+[Guix-HPC](https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr) effort:
+
+  - Pierre-Antoine Rouby arrived a couple of weeks ago at
+    [Inria](https://www.inria.fr/en) for a four-month internship on
+    improving the user experience of Guix in high-performance computing
+    (HPC) and reproducible scientific workflows.  Pierre-Antoine has
+    already contributed a couple of HPC package definitions and will
+    next look at tools such as
+    [hpcguix-web](https://github.com/UMCUGenetics/hpcguix-web), [`guix
+    
pack`](https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/blog/2017/10/using-guix-without-being-root/),
+    and more.
+
+Gábor Boskovits, Ricardo Wurmus, and Ludovic Courtès will be their
+primary mentors, and the whole Guix crowd will undoubtedly help and
+provide guidance as it has always done.  Welcome to all of you!
+
+#### 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](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, 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.