Presenting at Next Meeting

[HartfordLUG]

Hello,

This is Zachary Liebl (I showed up for 2 meetings so far).

I would like to give a presentation at the next Hartford LUG meetup. According to the website, it will be in November. Although, if we wanted to, I could give it this month.

Anyway this presentation would be on NixOS and Nix. NixOS, is of course the "hot new GNU/Linux distro," but many don't know that it is only one part of a larger Nix ecosystem. In my presentation, I would cover the entire Nix ecosytem including NixOS.

I would cover the following in my talk:

- Nix, the configuration language which is halfway between JSON and Haskell

- Nixpkgs, one of if not the largest repositories of software in the world

- Nix, the package manager which allows installing software on GNU/Linux, MacOS, and the BSDs

- Nix-shell, the ephemeral shell environment which allows users to spin up docker-like development environments with a fraction of the overhead

- NixOS, the operating system which uses the Nix ecosystem to achieve perfect reproducibility where the entire system configuration is stored in one file.

Is this something that you all are interested to hear? I could also split it into 2 talks, one for the Nix ecosystem and one for just NixOS; there is more than enough content for 2 talks.

From,

Zachary Liebl

[Rudy S]

Hello Zach,

I like it and I think we should go with it for November. Right now it's too soon to start this month on this.

If you could please maybe write something up that I can post on the website on this and about how you are going to show this in November and in December and maybe January as a follow up or even break it into three different sessions.

I like the idea of braking it up into 2 sessions and if people want to have more then we can setup a third.

This way by getting it up on the website early and sending out emails early people can plan on coming to the meeting. Maybe we can get a ton of people to show up that would be great.

Let me know your thoughts as well as everyone else if you think this is a great idea?

Thanks

Rudy

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