Re: [gnu-soc] [Nomad] Need your help with GSoC

[Darshit Shah]

Hi,

I'm confused. I see a bunch of email conversation without much context. 
Could someone please provide some context and what you expect from us?


On 03/02/2020 19:28, Gábor Boskovits wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Amar M. Singh <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. febr. 3., H, 19:20):
> > February 3, 2020 5:54 PM, "Gábor Boskovits" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Amar,
> > >
> > > Amar M. Singh <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. febr. 3., H, 17:29):
> > >
> > > > Hi Amar,
> > > > "Amar M. Singh" <address@hidden> skribis:
> > > >
> > > > > Nomad is participating in GSoC this year. I thought
> > > > > we might be able to get some help from Guix.
> > > >
> > > > Nice! Was your application accepted already? (I don’t know the
> > > > timeline.)
> > > >
> > > > Not yet but we are hopeful. The deadline's 5th Feb, or 6th Feb depending
> > > > on where one is.
> > >
> > > I hope this will work for you.
> >
> > We will definitely do our best to make Nomad a great piece of free
> > software :-)
>
> Nice!
>
> > > > > "If you are a new organization to GSoC, is there a Google
> > > > > employee or previously participating organization who will
> > > > > vouch for you? If so, please enter their name, contact
> > > > > email, and relationship to your organization."
> > >
> > > Unfortunately I believe that technically GNU Guix was never a
> > > participating organization. The participating organization is GNU.
> > > I can either connect you to the GNU org admins, or you can reach
> > > out to them directly on the address@hidden mailing list.
> >
> > I should certainly contact the GNU project.
> >
> > > > What would it take exactly? What do you need from us?
> > > >
> > > > We have to provide:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Organisation name: GNU Guix
> > > > 2. Contact email:
> > > > 3. Relationship to the organisation: first FSDG distro Nomad was
> > > > packaged for.
> > >
> > > If you still think that we should provide these information, then feel free
> > > to provide address@hidden as a contact e-mail address.
> >
> > I've entered this email along with the above mentioned information as a
> > reference, in case we don't hear from address@hidden in
> > time. Thank you.
>
> You are welcome. I hope it helps.
>
> > > > It would be probably more efficient if you could email Gábor Boskovits
> > > > (who’s handling Guix’ application under the GNU umbrella) as well as
> > > > possibly address@hidden (I saw you already emailed Ricardo, so
> > > > there are 3 additional maintainers you’d reach out to :-)).
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Ludo’.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your encouragement Ludovic :-)
> > > >
> > > > Amar
> > > >
> > > > ----------------
> > > > About Nomad:
> > > >
> > > > Nomad's a web browser that uses GNU Guile as the extension language, and
> > > > the browser features are exposed to the Guile layer. It uses Emacsy
> > > > library to provide Emacs's like features such as buffers, and
> > > > keymaps. And work is underway to remove the C code and do all of this
> > > > using Guile only with the help of GNU G-Golf, thanks to Mike and David
> > > > Pirotte's work. I think it's fair to say Guix has helped Nomad's
> > > > development a lot, there is a package in Guix's master branch.
> > > >
> > > > Website: https://www.nongnu.org/nomad
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > g_bor
> > >
> > > --
> > > OpenPGP Key Fingerprint: 7988:3B9F:7D6A:4DBF:3719:0367:2506:A96C:CF63:0B21
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Amar
>
>
> Best regards,
> g_bor