Re: Capitole du Libre at Toulouse

[bokr]

Hi Andreas, Vagrant, et al

On +2022-09-25 10:37:52 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2022-09-25, Andreas Enge wrote:
> > I am not quite sure how one presents a distribution at a booth, since
> > there is not really much to attract the eye, or is there?
> 
> I know Debian used to have an automated debian-installer running on a
> screen looping through all the supported languages of the installer.
> Would be cool to implement something similar for Guix someday, but
> probably not in a few weeks...
> 
> Maybe just a screen capture with large fonts of someone doing some guixy
> things and play it on a loop?
> 
> 
> live well,
>   vagrant

There is a nice guix web entry point at [0]
[0] https://guix.gnu.org/

┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ NB: If your camera doesn't recognize the qr code, try │
│ reversing the video so the pattern is black on white. │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Anyway I thought I'd grab the good words there and suggest
making a poster for a booth wall, like

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
    █████████████████████████████████
    █████████████████████████████████
    ████ ▄▄▄▄▄ █▄ █▄ ▀ ███ ▄▄▄▄▄ ████
    ████ █   █ █▄ ▄ ▄ ▀▀██ █   █ ████
    ████ █▄▄▄█ █▀█ █▀ ██ █ █▄▄▄█ ████
    ████▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█▄█ █ █▄█ █▄▄▄▄▄▄▄████
    ████ ▀ █▀▀▄▄█▀ ▄ ██ ▀▀▀ █▀▄▀ ████
    ████  █ █ ▄█ ▄▀███▀  ▀▄▀█ ▄█▄████
    ████▄██ ▀▄▄▄▀▀█▄ ▀▄▀ █  ███▀ ████
    ████▄▄▀█▀▄▄ █  ▀ █▀ ▀ █▀▀ ▄█▄████
    ████▄▄██▄▄▄█▀▀███ ▄▄ ▄▄▄ ██▄▀████
    ████ ▄▄▄▄▄ █▄▄█▄█▀█▀ █▄█ ██▀▄████
    ████ █   █ ██ ▀▄ ▄█▄  ▄▄ █▀▀▄████
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    █████████████████████████████████
    █████████████████████████████████

    Liberating. Guix is an advanced distribution of the GNU
    operating system developed by the GNU Project---which
    respects the freedom of computer users.

    Dependable. Guix supports transactional upgrades and
    roll-backs, unprivileged package management, and more. When
    used as a standalone distribution, Guix supports declarative
    system configuration for transparent and reproducible
    operating systems.

    Hackable. It provides Guile Scheme APIs, including
    high-level embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs) to
    define packages and whole-system configurations.

    If you don't use GNU Guix as a standalone GNU/Linux
    distribution, you still can use it as a package manager on
    top of any GNU/Linux distribution. This way, you can benefit
    from all its conveniences.

    Guix won't interfere with the package manager that comes
    with your distribution. They can live together. TRY IT OUT!
    Blog Celebrating 10 years of Guix in Paris, 16--18
    September

    It's been ten years of GNU Guix ! To celebrate, and to
    share knowledge and enthusiasm, a birthday event will take
    place on September 16--18th, 2022 , in... 10 years of
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    It's been ten years today since the very first commit
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    is a homage to Guile and Nix , which... Keeping
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    switch to a new machine? What would it take to roll back to
    your previous environment once you've noticed... ALL
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--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

and then trim the above down to just the qr code and
maybe the first three paragraphs of the above, and format it
to fit 2^N images on an A4 that could be cut into small handouts
and spread around at other booths that might have counter room
for a little stack or mini-poster.

Or business card size could be cool for scattering guix seeds :)

Of course, going by the guix booth with a smart-phone in hand,
all you need to do is point the camera at the qr code and save
a bookamrk.

I would have made a pdf, but pdflatex needs something to handle
utf8, so I'm way past the time I was going to spend on this :)

The text above is now ascii (after hacking some filters :)
but the qrcode is utf8.

I see contributing.texi has some utf8 characters:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ ord < doc/contributing.texi \
> | ord < doc/contributing.texi|tr ' ' $'\n' \
> | sort -n|uniq -c |pr -t -4; \
> uchr 160 171 187 233 235 8217|unicode-info
   2125 10             26 57            166 83           2070 109
  12259 32            222 58            268 84           4625 110
     12 33             65 59             85 85           4941 111
     82 34             22 60             19 86           2011 112
     20 35             18 61             77 87             46 113
      5 36             30 62             12 88           3634 114
     20 37             11 63             30 89           4269 115
    141 39           1168 64              3 91           5718 116
    225 40             97 65              1 92           2503 117
    225 41             52 66              3 93            593 118
     36 42             80 67              4 94            782 119
      8 43             81 68             34 95            702 120
    705 44            105 69             73 96           1022 121
    582 45             77 70           5096 97             54 122
    912 46            225 71            945 98            677 123
    359 47             32 72           2769 99              6 124
     46 48            172 73           2607 100           677 125
     67 49              6 74           8481 101            19 126
     59 50             14 75           1480 102             1 160
     39 51             52 76           1857 103             1 171
     30 52             74 77           2414 104             1 187
     18 53             92 78           4903 105             1 233
     37 54             84 79             71 106             1 235
     11 55            175 80            696 107             7 8217
     22 56             77 82           2635 108

"\xa0«»éë’":
    glyph  codepoint .....int  name...
    _ _     +U0000a0      160  NO-BREAK SPACE  
    _«_     +U0000ab      171  LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK  
    _»_     +U0000bb      187  RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK  
    _é_     +U0000e9      233  LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE  
    _ë_     +U0000eb      235  LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS  
    _’_     +U002019     8217  RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK  
$ 


--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
...but I don't have the ork(sv) to try a qr code in a texi doc now ;/

Anyway, you should be able to test the qr code above with a phone,
if your browser or mail reader  displays the pattern as black on white
(or your phone is smarter than mine :)
--
Regards,
Bengt Richter