Re: FOSDEM 2018 Guile devroom

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello!
>
> [- guile-devel]
>
> Thomas Danckaert <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Just to get everybody excited: https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule
>> includes (among others) devrooms for
>>
>>  - “Package Management”
>>
>>  - “HPC, Big Data and Data Science”
>>
>>  - “Distributions”
>>
>>  - “Containers”
>>
>>  - “Config Management”
>>
>>   -“Free Java”
>
> Awesome.  These tracks are good opportunities to reach out to people who
> otherwise wouldn’t hear about Guix(SD).  Given how many people were in
> the Guile/Guix devroom last year, I’m sure we could afford to have one
> talk in each track.  ;-)  Let’s synchronize!

“Free Java” is an interesting name for a devroom track.  I guess I could
talk about freedom problems with the Java culture of never building
software recursively from source, and introduce how we’re approaching
this problem in Guix.

The Java bootstrap could also be demonstrated in that talk.

(Does anyone know how this is done in Debian?  Do they actually build
all of their Java packages from source?)

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Ricardo

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