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+title: Meet Guix at FOSDEM
+slug: meet-guix-at-fosdem-2023
+date: 2023-01-20 15:00:00
+author: Ludovic Courtès
+tags: FOSDEM, Guix Days, Talks, Community
+---
+
+GNU Guix will be present at [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2023/) next
+week, February 4th and 5th.  This is the first time since the pandemic
+that FOSDEM takes place again “in flesh” in Brussels, which is exciting
+to those of us lucky enough to get there!  Everything will be
+live-streamed and recorded thanks to the amazing FOSDEM crew, so
+everyone can enjoy wherever they are.
+
+Believe it or not, it’s the [9th year Guix is represented at
+FOSDEM](https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/tags/fosdem/)!  There are several
+talks that will let you learn more about different areas of the joyful
+Hydra Guix has become.
+
+This all starts on Saturday, in particular with the amazing [declarative
+and minimalistic computing
+track](https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/track/declarative_and_minimalistic_computing/):
+
+  - [“_Bringing RISC-V to Guix's
+    bootstrap_”](https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/guixriscv/)
+    (video only), as a continuation of [last year’s
+    talk](https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/riscvadventures/), will
+    be Ekaitz Zarraga’s account of the successful port the _full-source
+    bootstrap_ to RISC-V—no less!
+  - In [“_Using GNU Guix Containers with FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy
+    Standard)
+    Support_”](https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/guixfhs/) (video
+    only) will be present the recently-added [`guix shell --container
+    
--emulate-fhs`](https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-filesystem-hierarchy-standard-comes-to-guix-containers/).
+  - [“_Declaring just what is
+    
necessary_”](https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/minimalguixsystemimages/)
+    (video only) will show how to create system images that contain just
+    what you need, by Efraim Flashner.
+  - In [“_GNU Guix and Open Science, a
+    crush?_”](https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/guixopenscience/),
+    Simon Tournier will illustrates ways in which Guix can be beneficial
+    to “open science”.
+  - [“_How Replicant, a 100% free software Android distribution, uses
+    (or doesn't use)
+    Guix_”](https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/replicantguix/) will
+    showcase an unusual and exciting use case for Guix, by one of
+    Replicant’s core developers, Denis “GNUtoo” Carikli.
+  - [“_An Introduction to Guix
+    Home_”](https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/guixhome/) will be
+    given on Sunday (video only) by David Wilson of [System
+    Crafters](https://systemcrafters.net/) fame—a must if you want to
+    understand this newfangled Guix Home thing!
+
+There are many other [exciting talks in this
+track](https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/track/declarative_and_minimalistic_computing/),
+some of which closely related to Guix and Guile; check it out!
+
+You can also discover Guix in other tracks:
+
+  - On Saturday, [“_Guix, toward practical transparent, verifiable and
+    long-term reproducible
+    research_”](https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/openresearch_guix/)
+    will be an introduction to Guix (by Simon Tournier) for an audience
+    of scientists interested in coming up with scientific practices that
+    improves verifiability and transparency.
+  - On Saturday in the security track, [_“Where does that code come
+    
from?”_](https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/security_where_does_that_code_come_from/)
+    (by Ludovic Courtès) will talk Git checkout authentication in Guix
+    and how this fits in the broader picture of “software supply chain”
+    security.
+  - On Sunday, Efraim Flashner will talk about [“_Porting RISC-V to
+    GNU Guix_”](https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/rv_gnu_guix/) in
+    the RISC-V track.
+  - On Sunday, in the high-performance computing (HPC) track, Ludovic
+    Courtès will give a lightning talk about CPU tuning in Guix entitled
+    [“_Reproducibility and performance: why
+    choose?_”](https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/cpu_tuning_gnu_guix/).
+
+**FIXME: update logo!**
+![Guix Days logo](/static/blog/img/Guix-Days-online-2022.png)
+
+As was the case pre-pandemic, we are also organizing the Guix Days as a
+[FOSDEM fringe event](https://fosdem.org/2023/fringe/), a two-day Guix
+workshop where contributors and enthusiasts will meet.  The workshop
+takes place on **Thursday Feb. 1st and Friday Feb. 2nd** at the
+[Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICAB) in
+Brussels](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.85025&mlon=4.37326#map=19/50.85025/4.37326).
+
+Again this year there will be few talks; instead, the event will
+consist primarily of
+“[unconference-style](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference)”
+sessions focused on specific hot topics about Guix, the Shepherd,
+continuous integration, and related tools and workflows.
+
+Attendance to the workshop is free and open to everyone, though you are
+invited to register (there are few seats left!).  Check out [the
+workshop’s wiki
+page](https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/FOSDEM2023) for
+registration and practical info.  Hope to see you in Brussels!
+
+#### About GNU Guix
+
+[GNU Guix](https://guix.gnu.org) is a transactional package manager and
+an advanced distribution of the GNU system that [respects user
+freedom](https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html).
+Guix can be used on top of any system running the Hurd or the Linux
+kernel, or it can be used as a standalone operating system distribution
+for i686, x86_64, ARMv7, AArch64, and POWER9 machines.
+
+In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports
+transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management,
+per-user profiles, and garbage collection.  When used as a standalone
+GNU/Linux distribution, Guix offers a declarative, stateless approach to
+operating system configuration management.  Guix is highly customizable
+and hackable through [Guile](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile)
+programming interfaces and extensions to the
+[Scheme](http://schemers.org) language.