Re: [outreachy] am I in the right track to contribute

[Alex Vong]

Hello,

Welcome to guix!

Laura Lazzati <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I don't know if is it OK to be telling you what I am/ I've been doing
> these days, I kind of like doing so to have feedback, and also to let
> you know
>
> I installed guix on a VM with an Ubuntu distro and it worked fine - i
> ran some basic commands.
>  I am trying to install GuixSD over that VM too and on bare metal -
> don't know if this two steps are necessary, but looking at the tasks
> for Outreachy one items says that I will be doing documentation for
> it.
> I also read the tutorial in http://guix-hpc-bordeaux.inria.fr, the
> documentation about defining packages - I am in process of studying
> how to do so. And I have the following questions:
> 1) should I write, at least for myself, the problems I've been
> encountering in the whole process of doing everything?

I think it is a good idea. Usually after using a program for some time,
I get used the program behaviour and forget how it was like when I just
get started. It is always good to have newcomers to share the
difficulties they encountered!

> 2) When a suggestion for a contribution is writing an R package, you
> mean the R programming language?
>
Yes, I think so. A capitalized 'R' usually means the 'R programming
language' in my dictionary. You can find all the R package
definitions / recipes in 'gnu/package/statistics.scm'.

> Regards!

There're also some talks about guix on the web[0][1]. You can watch them
if you are interested.

Cheers,
Alex

[0]: 
https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/practical-verifiable-software-freedom-with-guixsd/
[1]: https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/usingguix/

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