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title: Guix welcomes Outreachy and GSoC interns
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date: 2020-05-12 12:00
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author: Gábor Boskovits
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tags: GSoC, Outreachy
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---
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We are thrilled to announce that three people will join Guix as interns
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over the next few months! As part of Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC),
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under the umbrella of the GNU Project, one person is joining us:
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- Brice Waegeneire (liberdiko) will work on [network booting Guix System](https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2020#Booting_via_network).
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This will involve both making Guix System network bootable,
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and making it easy to set up a network boot server on Guix System.
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Through [Outreachy](https://www.outreachy.org), the internship program
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for groups underrepresented in free software and tech, two people will
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join:
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- Danjela will work on improving internationalization support for the
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[Guix Data Service](https://data.guix.gnu.org/),
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- Raghav Gururajan will work on integrating desktop environments
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into Guix System.
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Christopher Baines and Danny Milosavljevic will be their
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primary mentors, and the whole Guix crowd will undoubtedly help and
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provide guidance as it has always done.
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We welcome all three interns, exciting things are sure to come!
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#### About GNU Guix
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[GNU Guix](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix) is a transactional package
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manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system that [respects
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user
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freedom](https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html).
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Guix can be used on top of any system running the kernel Linux, or it
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can be used as a standalone operating system distribution for i686,
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x86_64, ARMv7, and AArch64 machines.
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In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports
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transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management,
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per-user profiles, and garbage collection. When used as a standalone
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GNU/Linux distribution, Guix offers a declarative, stateless approach to
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operating system configuration management. Guix is highly customizable
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and hackable through [Guile](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile)
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programming interfaces and extensions to the
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[Scheme](http://schemers.org) language.
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