Re: Hackatathon: 27th June! Let redo ReScience C.

[Peter Polidoro]

> From: "Etienne B. Roesch" <etienne.roesch@gmail.com>

> I am also a plain old researcher in neuroscience, albeit with
> formal training in software engineering.

Just out of curiousity, do you know of other neuroscientists using 
Guix or are you one of the few?

I also work with neuroscientists and have been telling them about 
Guix for a couple of years now, but I have not yet been able to 
convince any to even try it.

They often complain about problems they have, like struggling to 
package polyglot software, that Guix could solve for them, but 
seem reluctant, perhaps because of fear of lisp or not being able 
to run natively on their operating system or because it is so 
different than what they know.

> As such I think I would find it
> more valuable to spend time figuring out the best way to 
> describe "a best
> practice" for people like me, onboarding newcomers, and write
> documentation, rather than figuring out why a Makefile doesn't 
> compile and
> computer says no.

Such a "best practice" would be very valuable and I would be 
interested in helping if possible.