Re: GNU Guix/Guile day just before FOSDEM 2018

[Amirouche Boubekki]

I may come... I will add two talk ideas I have:

- Guile 2017 in review
- Kesako guile-wiredtiger

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 6:58 PM Amirouche Boubekki <
address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> Pjort, Ludo and Manolis are organizing a Guix/Guile day just before FOSDEM
> 2018 at the very beginning of February the 02/02/2018 just before FOSDEM.
>
> They mentioned http://icab.be/b_and_b_programme.php for accommodation
> which is the place where the Guix event is happening.
>
> There is information about the event at
> https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/FOSDEM2018
>
> Sadly there is no talks about Guile itself, does anyone want to produce a
> talk about Guile? Maybe, I can do it myself, but I am not sure I am
> going... Anyway some more guilers must be there!
>
> Or what do you think of this: We make a list of all the awesome stuff that
> happened in 2017 and make a few slides about it!
>
> Here is my list:
>
> - Guile ffi helper by Matt Wette: is really a step in the right direction
>
> - Haunt by David Thomson: his static blog generator got more users,
>
> - GNU Foliot by David Pirotte: is the first GNU app written in Guile using
> GTK3
>
> - Guile-CV by David Pirotte: a tool to analyze images using somekind of
> aglgorithms
>
> - Guile JS backend: Ian Price made the JavaScript compiler backend (and it
> works on my machine :)
>
> - Guile 2.2.3 was released, what's new?
>
> Any ideas what else to do a 2017 Guile recap?
>