Re: Guix at 37C3 Chaos Communication Congress in late Dec?

[Fabio Natali]

On 2024-01-18, 14:25 +0100, Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> wrote:
> thanks for your report!

Hey Andreas, thank you for getting back to me.

> This is quite amazing. One of the most depressing experiences at a CCC
> was when I went to a Lisp assembly, and there were at most a dozen
> people around a table, none of whom used the same Lisp dialect.

Haha, yes, I can see how this can very well be a risk!

The advantage of a Lisp assembly is the economy of scale. That'd combine
together various projects that were all massively under-represented at
37c3 - I'm primarily thinking of Guix, Guile, and Emacs as those are the
projects I care about, but there are others too.

If we build enough momentum, we should be able to have decently sized
assembly subgroups - in other words, we should be able to avoid the
twelve-people-that-speak-twelve-different-lisps scenario. :)

What's not ideal with a Lisp assembly is that Guix and Emacs are not
programming languages and, despite related to Lisp, their scope and
ideas transcend - or are partly orthogonal to - Lisp itself.

An other option would be to go the "FOSDEM way" and have a "declarative
and minimalist computing" assembly instead - what do you think?

I still have a slight preference for the Lisp assembly idea, but let's
see what the general feeling/preference is here in the ML. 38c3 won't be
happening any time soon anyway. :)

Thanks, best, F.


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