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 --- The Guix hackers are very happy to announce the second online Guix Days Conference on **7 & 8 February 2022**. This conference is open to everyone and will be held entirely online. Want to speak? Submit your proposal! Important dates: 1. **January 21**: Deadline for talks proposal. 1. **January 28**: Deadline for releasing your pre-recorded talks. 1. **February 2**: Release of the schedule. 1. **February 7**: Conference day! 1. **February 8**: Conference day! ![Guix Days logo](/static/blog/img/Guix-Days-online-2022.png) The agenda of these two days is: - pre-recorded talks with live question and answer sessions - birds of a feather (BoF) sessions - lightning round talks, if possible - retrospective and future of Guix - hack together Talks will be released **before** the conference day, **watch them as soon as possible**! And **no registration fee**. ##### Until January 21: talks proposal Propose your talks by sending them to `guix-days@gnu.org`. Feel free to drop 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. - 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 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. 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. ##### January 28-February 6: watch the talks But don't miss the [Fosdem](https://fosdem.org) conference either! Be sure to watch the pre-recorded talks before the conference. There will be **no presentations** on the 7 nor 8. ##### February 7-8: participate Coming soon! Stay tuned. #### Code of Conduct This online conference is an official Guix event. Therefore, the [Code of Conduct](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/CODE-OF-CONDUCT) applies. Please be sure to read it beforehand! #### About GNU Guix [GNU Guix](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix) is a transactional package manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system that [respects user freedom](https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html). Guix can be used on top of any system running the Hurd or the Linux kernel, or it can be used as a standalone operating system distribution for i686, x86_64, ARMv7, and AArch64 machines. In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection. When used as a standalone GNU/Linux distribution, Guix offers a declarative, stateless approach to operating system configuration management. Guix is highly customizable and hackable through [Guile](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile) programming interfaces and extensions to the [Scheme](http://schemers.org) language.