Is there any regular casual NixOS Online Meeting?

stphrolland · July 7, 2020, 12:12pm

@RaminHAL9001: a word written one or two lines before. In my case it was about an big grey mammal.

RaminHAL9001 · July 7, 2020, 12:13pm

Thanks, I didn’t see that. Looks like I can join!

yasu · July 7, 2020, 2:12pm

Meeting notes… (sorry I missed the last 30 minutes… forgot to save!!)

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[20:54] admin : https://www.org.meet.coop/
[20:55] admin : bigbluebutton: init at 2.2.2 by jluttine · Pull Request #83072 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub
[21:00] Joseph Gosselin : Good morning!
[21:01] Armando Santos : hi!
[21:02] Joseph Gosselin : I’ve never tried it at all, I’m just interested in what it is and what it does.
[21:03] ubuntourist : Trying to stay awake after a ridiculously long thunderstorm in the middle of the night.
[21:09] Joseph Gosselin : /me immediately abuses his newfound powers
[21:15] stphn : I never use nix-env, only configuration.nix => is it somehting I should learn ?
[21:19] stphn : I love openspaces so I love the idea, but we have not spend time on different subject proposal
[21:19] Joseph Gosselin : Nah, this is great!
[21:20] stphn : next time maybe
[21:25] stphn :
[21:25] Joseph Gosselin : so like every online community
[21:28] stphn : I never used home-manager: I manage my dotfiles and .config files are “manually” with bash scripts and git
[21:35] Armando Santos : I’ll have to go for a moment to lunch! brb
[21:40] stphn : nix-env --set
[21:44] Joseph Gosselin : ooooh wow, that’s really interesting
[21:46] Joseph Gosselin : So it’s a bit like the Arch AUR but managed in part through straight git pulls
[21:46] Joseph Gosselin : gotta go bring the kid to daycare, thank you for this!
[21:46] stphn : I’m not yet at understanding/using override/overlays
[21:48] jtojnar2 : hi
[22:00] stphn : I’ve been told nix flakes are still in beta phase
[22:01] ubuntourist : I have to run. But OBS Studio is the Open Broadcast System Studio and is quite powerful. Think television studio with transitions between nultiple cameras, fade-in, fade-out, MIDI, green-screen, etc., etc.
[22:01] ubuntourist : Someone remember to save this chat and maybe post it on e-mail. (See the vertical ellipsis at the top of this window.)
[22:02] admin : will do!
[22:02] stphn : (off topic) by the way Ian, thx for your video on awk, you made me try it
[22:06] Ian's NixOS Machine : Ian Graham here, might be the wrong Ian
[22:07] Ian's NixOS Machine : But speaking for the Ian Collective you’re welcome!
[22:07] stphn :
[22:16] Armando Santos : can you link his stuff?
[22:17] stphn : I have been told there are much more strict on free and unfree packages. I have been told a bit like Debian approach.
[22:19] stphn : Question: do you all use Niv ?
[22:25] Armando Santos : GitHub - nix-dot-dev/getting-started-devenv-template: Based on nix.dev tutorials, repository template to get you started with Nix.
[22:28] stphn : great
[22:30] stphn : gonna use it soon
[22:31] Ian's NixOS Machine : GitHub - nmattia/niv: Easy dependency management for Nix projects
[22:31] Ian's NixOS Machine : jwiegley on haskell+nix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9yiJ7d5LeI
[22:32] Armando Santos : Nix Haskell Development (2020) - #2 by cdepillabout
[22:32] Armando Santos : Nix setup for Haskell with ghcide and HLint | by Tom | Purely Functional | Medium

yasu · July 7, 2020, 2:15pm

This site was mentioned. I am posting here https://nix.dev/

addict3d · July 7, 2020, 3:47pm

Is there a plan to hold this meeting again soon?

I managed to miss attending this time around, but am very interested in participating.

stphrolland · July 7, 2020, 3:55pm

I was attending and I hope for a next and even a regular event

yasu · July 8, 2020, 12:18am

Ok let’s aim next week at the same time!
In the mean time, there were some questions yesterday about “Worker Cooperatives”.
Let me post a follow-up session of that first over the weekend (Sorry it would be late night in Europe…)

yasu · July 8, 2020, 8:35am

Follow-up on Worker Cooperatives

Sunday, 09:00AM Tokyo
Very late night in Europe… (Sorry! We can schedule another one if needed)
Saturday, 20:00 EDT

https://www.meetup.com/Tokyo-Haskell-Meetup/events/271789558/