Re: Organising Guix Days

[zimoun]

Hi Julien,

On Sat, 11 Dec 2021 at 02:37, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:

> I think it's time to start organising the Guix Days, traditionally held
> around Fosdem.

Nice initiative!  Count on me for helping. :-)


> As for how it'll be organised. I propose to do something similar to
> what we need in November 2020. I'd love to get some talks from people
> outside the usual maintainers and commiters, to have an overview of the
> diversity of people and usage around Guix.

I agree.


> Last year, we asked speakers to prepare a video in advance, and they
> would only have an extended Q&A/discussion session. I think this year
> we should have the same process, but ask for a short (3-5 minutes) talk
> at the start of the session to refresh our minds on the main points of
> the presentation before discussions start.

In your views, the presentation is 3-5 minutes exposing the topic then
live discussion/Q&A.  Or 3-5 minutes video then 10-20 minutes of live
presentation and then live Q&A?

(The post provides a better explanation but I am not sure to fully get
what you have in mind.)


> The Guix Days have never been a "real" conference, and always had a lot
> of room for discussions that start on the spot. I'd like to emulate
> this by keeping a lot of time out of the talk sessions to discuss
> whatever comes up naturally during our discussions.

A LibreAdventure [1 ]instance could help here.

1: <https://vcs.fsf.org/?p=libreadventure.git;a=summary>


> title: Announcing the second online Guix Days Conference
> date: 2021-12-10 00:00
> author: Guix Hackers
> slug: online-guix-days-2022-announce-1
> tags: Conference, Community
> ---

[...]

> ##### Until January 21: talks proposal
>
> Propose your talks by sending them to `guix-days@gnu.org`.  Feel free to drop

This alias received a lot of spam, IIRC.  Do we use the same than past
year?  Or do we use guix-days2022@gnu.org?  And then drop it a couple of
weeks after the event.

> in `#guix` on irc.freenode.net to discuss what you would like to talk about
> before submitting. :)
>
> You can choose one of the following formats:
>
>  - Standard talk. 15-45 minutes pre-recorded presentation and a 5 minutes 
> lightning talk.
>    The 5-minute presentation will be live, to refresh our minds, followed by
>    a 30 minutes live Q&A.
>  - BoF (birds of a feather, for a session with a small group who wants to talk
>    about a specific topic) with no presentation. You may prepare something 
> live
>    to spark conversations.

Although BoF is often used, last year, some people raised it is not so
common.  Naming is hard. ;-)  I am fine with this name, just to be sure
it is fine.


>  - Lightning talk with a 5 minutes live presentation
>
> In addition to the format you would like to choose, please describe your 
> session
> with 10 lines or more (for lightning talks, at least 1 sentence).
>
> Once you have sent your proposal, you will be notified in the coming days
> whether your talk be part of the Guix Day. Submit earlier to get more time to
> prepare your session!
>
> Even for live presentation, please prepare a back-up pre-recorded talk, so
> we can play it if you cannot attend or have a technical problem during the
> Guix days. The deadline for short presentations (5 minutes) is February 4.
>
> We welcome all kinds of topics from the community, especially your own 
> experience
> with Guix, your cool projects that involve Guix in some way, infrastructure 
> around
> guix (translations, continuous integration, ...), and any subject you feel

  ^ Guix

> should be discussed during the conference.
>
> Have a look at the topics from [the last 
> conference](/blog/2020/online-guix-day-announce-1/)
> for ideas, but don't hesitate to innovate in your proposals!
>
> ##### January 21 (or before) - 28: prepare your talk
>
> The aim of the pre-recorded talks is to demonstrate new features, what you are
> hacking on, introduce the subject for easing the live question and answer
> sessions or BoFs.  These pre-recorded talks should be **15-45 minutes
> long**.  Feel free to ask if you need help with the recording.
>
> You are free to choose whichever storage platform you want (e.g., your own
> website, a PeerTube instance, a Nextcloud instance, etc.), but we will need to
> have access to the original file so we can publish it later on
> [audio-video.gnu.org](https://audio-video.gnu.org).  Your video must be
> released under a license that at least allows anyone to copy and share it, for
> any purpose.

Ahah!  Maybe one day, the ones of last year will be there first. ;-)


> You will have to release the video publicly before January 28, so everyone
> has a chance to see it before the conference.  If you are not able to do so
> (for instance your server cannot handle a huge load), you can alternatively
> send us a private link to the video and we will upload it on
> [audio-video.gnu.org](https://audio-video.gnu.org).  If you decide to do so,
> you will need to have the video ready by January 26.

No, it is not possible to upload to auido-video.gnu.org.  Instead, let
create something as videos.guix.gnu.org pointing to one of Bordeaux or
Berlin machine and put all the videos we have around.



Cheers,
simon