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Re: How to present Guix to a wider audience
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zimoun |
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Re: How to present Guix to a wider audience |
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Wed, 8 Jan 2020 21:18:43 +0100 |
Hi Pierre,
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 16:33, Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> wrote:
> - Computers, smartphones, etc. are around us.
> - They are used in research, banking, etc.
> - They can be used to store our private data.
> - They can be abused (e.g. maybe heard about Snowden).
>
> Carl Dong's video is the closest to what I'm looking for.
>
> I'd prefer a text format though. Besides, if we don't want to exhaust
> the patience of our users before pronouncing the word "Guix", I
> think it's important to make it a very short read, say 5 minutes, or
> some 1000 words.
Ahaha! Good luck! :-)
My experience: I explained to friends or family who fit your list above:
+ trusting trust: with 5 minutes, it is ok using the
yogourt=yogourt+milk analogy;
+ asymmetric cypher, cross-compilation, torrent, etc.: with 5 mins,
it is ~okish too
- Guix: I have always failed; even with 15min.
Even failed with scientific colleagues who uses classical linux
distro. For example, I did an attempt here [1].
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-12/msg00326.html
The issue is because each time my "audience" is too far from the
problems Guix fix. Other said, how do you explain why profiles,
manifests, roll-back, declarative stuff, etc. are so cool when the
"audience" only knows Word, Excel, Browser and some apps on
smartphones?
I do not want to be pessimistic but it is hard to introduce Guix for
general public.
> (Carl Dong's video is 16 minute long, and Guix is only introduced at the
> end.)
>
> As Ricardo said, I believe such a general presentation would be very
> welcome on Guix' front page.
>
> Anyone interested in writing such a text?
IMHO, a good start is to write down typical use cases/scenarii that
Guix solves. What do you think?
All the best,
simon
Re: How to present Guix to a wider audience, Ricardo Wurmus, 2020/01/02
Re: How to present Guix to a wider audience, Pierre Neidhardt, 2020/01/14
Re: How to present Guix to a wider audience, Dimakakos Dimos, 2020/01/14
Re: How to present Guix to a wider audience, Josh, 2020/01/14