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Re: Guix at the Open Bioinformatics Codefest 2014 hackathon
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Guix at the Open Bioinformatics Codefest 2014 hackathon |
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Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:11:47 +0200 |
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David Thompson <address@hidden> skribis:
> As some of you know, I gave a brief talk yesterday about Guix at the
> hackathon mentioned in the subject line. I had a few quick slides
> (mostly copy/paste from the home page and docs) and a demonstration
> (which of course had some technical difficulties).
Haha, demo effect. :-) What kind of difficulties was it? Relating to
substitutes? (hydra.gnu.org has been suffering from DoS over the last
couple of weeks...)
We can host the slides in guix-maintenance.git and/or on the web page if
you want.
> From what I gathered, the folks working in Bioinformatics are dealing
> with big problems around reproducibility and determinism in their
> computing environments, and I think project's like ours can really help
> in this matter.
>
> Here's to hoping we gain some more contributors. :)
Yup, thanks for giving a talk!
Ludo’.