Re: Guix at the Open Bioinformatics Codefest 2014 hackathon

[Ludovic Courtès]

David Thompson <address@hidden> skribis:

> As some of you know, I gave a brief talk yesterday about Guix at the
> hackathon mentioned in the subject line.  I had a few quick slides
> (mostly copy/paste from the home page and docs) and a demonstration
> (which of course had some technical difficulties).

Haha, demo effect.  :-)  What kind of difficulties was it?  Relating to
substitutes?  (hydra.gnu.org has been suffering from DoS over the last
couple of weeks...)

We can host the slides in guix-maintenance.git and/or on the web page if
you want.

> From what I gathered, the folks working in Bioinformatics are dealing
> with big problems around reproducibility and determinism in their
> computing environments, and I think project's like ours can really help
> in this matter.
>
> Here's to hoping we gain some more contributors. :)

Yup, thanks for giving a talk!

Ludo’.