Hello o/ I am excited to announce Bechamel a collective around the software knows as Guix (which most people use through the Gnu channel of Guix)

Bechamel is something I started as a much easier way for people to contribute to a guix channel (no emailing patches, workflow not built around Emacs, xmpp used instead of irc). It also aims to be a more private and safes space to contribute to Guix things (like using the JoinJabber CoC and the soon the Cooperative Software Development Guidelines) among other things. Rationale: codeberg.org/Guix_Bechamel/col…

There are also some other plans including tackling the long-standing accessibility problems in Guix, adding pilul support to guix, rust/python build system improvements and much improved and updated support for xmpp things. Hopefully you are going to see me post a lot more about it from now on :)
At the moment it has updated Gajim the XMPP client to 1.9.5 which brings around 2 years of updates. It also has started having some extensive practical documentation around Guix. And some other things like cerca the forum software.

- Repository for packages (gajim/cerca): codeberg.org/Guix_Bechamel/gui…
- Repository for the Bechamel collective including Documentation codeberg.org/Guix_Bechamel/col…
- Organization in Codeberg codeberg.org/Guix_Bechamel

#guix #xmpp #jabber #gnu #JoinJabber #irc #CoC

Guix_Bechamel

Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

^Codeberg.org

Figured out what was wrong with my implementation of Emmanuel Bourg's #kotlin #bootstrap chain (github.com/ebourg/kotlin-boots…), so now I managed to mirror the same chain, but *completely bootstrapped* (all prebuilt jars are removed from sources).

So I have a kotlin from June 2015: framagit.org/tyreunom/guix-and…

still a long way to go :D

#guix #bootstrappablebuilds

android/packages/kotlin.scm · master · Julien Lepiller / guix-android · GitLab

Experimental Guix packages for Android development (to build apps and the system itself)

^GitLab

I used to depend on the Web to look for UNICODE characters, but not anymore. Now I use my system:

1️⃣ Alt + F2

2️⃣ gnome-characters

3️⃣ Type "lock"

And that's it. Very nice.

Once they add support for searching in more languages other than English, it will be great.

#gnu #guix #gnome #unicode

As I wrote in a comment, I think we #FreeSoftware folks and #Guix in particular must address the shortcomings of traditional distros that make flatpak appear necessary. Instead we must design for practical user freedom.

The alternative is: more control for software vendors, or more power to users?

The #Guix reference card got an update!
guix.gnu.org/guix-refcard.pdf

Now features ‘guix shell’, ‘guix home’, and more.

📢 WhereIsEveryone, Guix Packaging Meetup, April 24th, 22:30 ET (UTC-4)

«This month we're rotating to use an APAC [Asia-Pacific] friendly time for our Guixers on that side of the globe.»

See more details on

lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gui…

#GNU #Guix