Re: [gnu-soc] [Nomad] Need your help with GSoC

[Gábor Boskovits]

Hello,

Amar M. Singh <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. febr. 3., H, 19:20):
>
> February 3, 2020 5:54 PM, "Gábor Boskovits" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hello Amar,
> >
> > Amar M. Singh <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. febr. 3., H, 17:29):
> >
> >> Hi Amar,
> >> "Amar M. Singh" <address@hidden> skribis:
> >>
> >>> Nomad is participating in GSoC this year. I thought
> >>> we might be able to get some help from Guix.
> >>
> >> Nice! Was your application accepted already? (I don’t know the
> >> timeline.)
> >>
> >> Not yet but we are hopeful. The deadline's 5th Feb, or 6th Feb depending
> >> on where one is.
> >
> > I hope this will work for you.
>
> We will definitely do our best to make Nomad a great piece of free
> software :-)
>

Nice!

> >
> >>> "If you are a new organization to GSoC, is there a Google
> >>> employee or previously participating organization who will
> >>> vouch for you? If so, please enter their name, contact
> >>> email, and relationship to your organization."
> >
> > Unfortunately I believe that technically GNU Guix was never a
> > participating organization. The participating organization is GNU.
> > I can either connect you to the GNU org admins, or you can reach
> > out to them directly on the address@hidden mailing list.
>
> I should certainly contact the GNU project.
>
> >
> >> What would it take exactly? What do you need from us?
> >>
> >> We have to provide:
> >>
> >> 1. Organisation name: GNU Guix
> >> 2. Contact email:
> >> 3. Relationship to the organisation: first FSDG distro Nomad was
> >> packaged for.
> >
> > If you still think that we should provide these information, then feel free
> > to provide address@hidden as a contact e-mail address.
>
> I've entered this email along with the above mentioned information as a
> reference, in case we don't hear from address@hidden in
> time. Thank you.
>

You are welcome. I hope it helps.

> >
> >> It would be probably more efficient if you could email Gábor Boskovits
> >> (who’s handling Guix’ application under the GNU umbrella) as well as
> >> possibly address@hidden (I saw you already emailed Ricardo, so
> >> there are 3 additional maintainers you’d reach out to :-)).
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ludo’.
> >>
> >> Thanks for your encouragement Ludovic :-)
> >>
> >> Amar
> >>
> >> ----------------
> >> About Nomad:
> >>
> >> Nomad's a web browser that uses GNU Guile as the extension language, and
> >> the browser features are exposed to the Guile layer. It uses Emacsy
> >> library to provide Emacs's like features such as buffers, and
> >> keymaps. And work is underway to remove the C code and do all of this
> >> using Guile only with the help of GNU G-Golf, thanks to Mike and David
> >> Pirotte's work. I think it's fair to say Guix has helped Nomad's
> >> development a lot, there is a package in Guix's master branch.
> >>
> >> Website: https://www.nongnu.org/nomad
> >
> > Best regards,
> > g_bor
> >
> > --
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>
> Thanks,
> Amar


Best regards,
g_bor
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