Re: Distributed GNU Shepherd NLNet Grant

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hey Juliana,

Juliana Sims <juli@incana.org> skribis:

> As some of you already know, in December I submitted an application
> for an NLNet grant to fund porting our beloved Shepherd to Spritely
> Goblins [1]. This work would represent a radical evolution in the
> capabilities of not just Guix's system layer, but of GNU/Linux system
> layers in general; and would also be the biggest real-world test to
> date of the Goblins library and its capabilities (pun not
> intended). Materially, it would allow Shepherd dæmons running on
> different machines to securely communicate and interact with each
> other, going so far as to control one machine's dæmons from another
> machine.
>
> I am happy to announce that this grant application was approved! [2]

Yay, congrats!! 🎉

This is exciting; I’m glad Ricardo has already offered another nice use
case.  :-)

It’s great to have you on board, and it’s great to have you be the first
person bridging the inspiring work happening in Goblins and the cool
stuff in Shepherd and Guix.

Cheers,
Ludo’.