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+title: Meet Guix at FOSDEM
+slug: meet-guix-at-fosdem-2021
+date: 2021-02-01 14:30:00
+author: Ludovic Courtès
+tags: FOSDEM, Guix Days, Talks, Community
+---
+
+As usual, GNU Guix will be present at [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2021/)
+on February 6th and 7th.  Due to the pandemic, this year’s edition takes
+place on-line.  The downside is that we’ll miss beautiful Brussels, but
+on the up side hopefully people who cannot join physically will be able
+to attend this year, and the event’s carbon footprint will be much
+lower.
+
+We’re happy to say that there will be several talks about Guix and
+related projects!
+
+  - Saturday afternoon, [*Guix Workflow Language — Extending a
+    reproducible software deployment system for
+    HPC*](https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/guix_workflow/) by
+    Ricardo Wurmus, in the [high-performance computing (HPC)
+    track](https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/hpc_big_data_and_data_science/),
+    will introduce the [Guix Workflow
+    Language](https://workflows.guix.info/) and discuss the state of
+    workflow languages.
+
+Sunday, the [Declarative and Minimalistic Computing
+track](https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/declarative_and_minimalistic_computing/)
+will be home to several Guix talks:
+
+  - Around noon, [*GNU Mes: the Full Source Bootstrap — The missing link
+    between stage0/M2-Planet and
+    Mes*](https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/gnumes/) by Jan
+    “janneke” Nieuwenhuizen will present the latest advances in
+    [bootstrapping](https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/tags/bootstrapping/):
+    building the root of the Guix package collection _entirely from
+    source_!
+  - Early in the afternoon, [*Declaratively yours — Composing system
+    abstractions with
+    GNU Guix*](https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/gnuguix/) by
+    Ludovic Courtès will present how Guix takes advantage of its
+    declarative structure, showcasing concrete examples.
+  - [*Is GNU Guix a minimal distribution, and what might that even
+    mean?](https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/minimalismguix/) by
+    Christopher Baines will reflect on what minimalism means for
+    distributions and how it might apply to Guix.
+
+Do not miss all the other fine talks [in this
+track](https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/declarative_and_minimalistic_computing/),
+some of which by Guile and Guix hackers covering topics such as
+[WebAssembly
+compilation](https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/webassembly/),
+[S-expression
+diffs](https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/sexpressiondiff/), or
+[distributed computing with Spritely
+Goblins](https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/spritelygoblins/)!
+
+For the fourth time, we are also organizing a [FOSDEM fringe
+event](https://fosdem.org/2021/fringe/) on Monday, February 8th, a
+one-day Guix workshop where contributors and enthusiasts will meet,
+on-line.  Being an on-line event, we hope to attract people (maybe you?)
+who wouldn’t have come to the in-person meeting but will be happy to
+learn about what’s cooking in Guix and share their experience, needs,
+and ideas.
+
+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 only a few seats left!).  Check out [the
+workshop’s wiki
+page](https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/FOSDEM2021) for practical
+info.  Hope to see you on-line!
+
+#### 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, and AArch64 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.