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+title: Guix at FOSDEM 2024
+slug: meet-guix-at-fosdem-2024
+date: 2024-01-19 15:00:00
+author: Steve George
+tags: FOSDEM, Guix Days, Talks, Community
+---
+
+It's not long to FOSDEM 2024, where Guixers will come together to learn and 
hack.
+As usual there's some great talks and opportunities to meet other users and
+contributors.
+
+[FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2024/) is Europe's biggest Free Software 
conference.
+It's aimed at developers and anyone who's interested in the Free Software
+movement. While it's an in-person conference there are live video streams
+and lots of ways to participate remotely.
+
+The schedule is varied with development rooms covering many interests. Here
+are some of the talks that are of particular interest to Guixers:
+
+
+### Saturday, 3rd Febuary
+
+  - ["**Making reproducible and publishable large-scale HPC 
experiments**"](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2651-making-reproducible-and-publishable-large-scale-hpc-experiments/)
+    by Philippe Swartvagher (10:30 CET). Phillipe will talk about the search 
for
+    reproducible experiments in high-performance computing (HPC) and how he 
uses
+    Guix in his methododology.
+
+
+### Sunday, 4th February
+The [Declarative and Minimalistic Computing 
track](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/declarative-and-minimalistic-computing/)
+takes place Sunday morning. Important topics are:
+
+- *Minimalism Matters*: sustainable computing through smaller, resource 
efficient systems
+- *Declarative Programming*: reliable and reproducible systems by minimising 
side-effects
+
+Guix-related talks are:
+
+  - ["**Scheme in the Browser with Guile Hoot and 
WebAssembly**"](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2339-scheme-in-the-browser-with-guile-hoot-and-webassembly/)
+    by Robin Templeton (11:00 CET). A talk covering bringing Scheme to 
WebAssembly
+    through the Guile Hoot toolchain. Addressing the current state of Guile 
Hoot
+    with examples, and how recent Wasm proposals might improve the
+    situation in the future.
+  - ["**RISC-V Bootstrapping in Guix and 
Live-Bootstrap**"](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1755-risc-v-bootstrapping-in-guix-and-live-bootstrap/)
+    by Ekaitz Zarraga (11:20 CET).  An update on the RISC-V bootstrapping 
effort
+    in Guix and Live-bootstrap.  Covering what's been done, what's left to do 
and
+    some of the lessons learned.
+  - ["**Self-hosting and autonomy using 
guix-forge**"](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2560-self-hosting-and-autonomy-using-guix-forge/)
+    by Arun Isaac (11:40 CET). This talk demonstrates the value of Guix's 
declarative
+    configuration to simplify deploying and maintaining complex services.  
Showing
+    [guix-forge](https://guix-forge.systemreboot.net/), a project that
+    makes it easy to self-host an efficient software forge.
+  - ["**Spritely, Guile, Guix: a unified vision for user 
security**"](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2331-spritely-guile-guix-a-unified-vision-for-user-security/)
+    by Christine Lemmer-Webber (12:00 CET).  Spritely's goal is to create
+    networked communities that puts people in control of their own identity
+    and security.  This talk will present a unified vision of how Spritely,
+    Guile, and Guix can work together to bring user freedom and security to
+    everyone!
+
+This year the track commemorates Joe Armstrong, who was the principal
+inventor of [Erlang](https://www.erlang.org/). His focus on concurrency,
+distribution and fault-tolerence are key topics in declarative and minimalistic
+computing.  This 
[article](https://thenewstack.io/why-erlang-joe-armstrongs-legacy-of-fault-tolerant-computing/)
+is a great introduction to his legacy.  Along with
+["**The Mess We're In**"](https://youtu.be/lKXe3HUG2l4?si=3zbc7BEbg1o6mW5R), a
+classic where he discusses why software is getting worse with time, and what 
can
+be done about it.
+
+On Sunday afternoon, the [Distributions 
devroom](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/distributions/)
+has another Guix talk:
+
+  - ["**Supporting architecture psABIs with GNU 
Guix**"](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2927-supporting-architecture-psabis-with-gnu-guix/)
+    by Efraim Flashner (14:30 CET).  Guix maintainer Efraim will be giving a
+    talk about improving Guix's performance.  Demonstrating how to use psABI
+    targets that keep older hardware compatible while providing optimized
+    libraries for newer hardware.
+
+
+### Guix Days (Thursday and Friday)
+
+Guix Days will be taking place on the Thursday and Friday before FOSDEM. This 
is
+an ["unconference-style"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference) event,
+where the community gets together to focus on Guix's development. All the
+details are on the
+[**Libreplanet Guix 
Wiki**](https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/FOSDEM2024).
+
+
+### Participating
+
+Come and join in the fun, whether you're a new Guix user or seasoned hacker!
+If you're not in Brussels you can still take part:
+
+  - See the [FOSDEM Schedule](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/)
+  - Watch the [live streams](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/streaming/)
+  - Chat in the unofficial [Guix Days Matrix 
room](https://matrix.to/#/#guix-days:matrix.org)
+
+
+### About GNU Guix
+
+[GNU Guix](https://guix.gnu.org) is a transactional package manager and
+an advanced distribution of the GNU system that [respects user
+freedom](https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html).
+Guix can be used on top of any system running the Hurd or the Linux
+kernel, or it can be used as a standalone operating system distribution
+for i686, x86_64, ARMv7, AArch64, and POWER9 machines.
+
+In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports
+transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management,
+per-user profiles, and garbage collection.  When used as a standalone
+GNU/Linux distribution, Guix offers a declarative, stateless approach to
+operating system configuration management.  Guix is highly customizable
+and hackable through [Guile](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile)
+programming interfaces and extensions to the
+[Scheme](http://schemers.org) language.
+