Talk at RSECon26 on Guix and ravanan

[Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>]

Hi,

I gave a talk on Guix and ravanan[1] yesterday at RSECon26[2], the Research
Software Engineering conference. My slides are at [3].

[1]: https://forge.systemreboot.net/ravanan/
[2]: https://rsecon26.society-rse.org/
[3]: https://zenodo.org/records/22682923

I have been working on ravanan for a couple of years now. ravanan is a
Common Workflow Language (CWL [4]) runner that uses Guix to provide
strong reproducibility guarantees and content-addressed caching. CWL is
a standards-based workflow language that is used in scientific
computing. You may have heard of other workflow languages such as
Nextflow, Snakemake and the Guix Workflow Language.

[4]: https://www.commonwl.org/

Based on conversations at the conference, I feel that Guix is slowly
getting on the radar of the research software engineering world. More
and more people have at least vaguely heard of Guix. Compare this with a
few years back when no one had a clue. Thanks to the community for
having carefully cultivated and cared for Guix these many years!

I also ran into Peter Schmidt from the Code for Thought[5] podcast. I
may be appearing on his podcast to talk about Guix.

[5]: https://codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/

In other ravanan news, the amazing Luis Felipe designed a logo for
ravanan. You can see it on the ravanan homepage.

Cheers!
Arun