[SGVLUG] Speaker tonight on Emacs and Nix

[Braddock Gaskill]

Hi folks,
Just a reminder we are excited to have John Wiegley, former maintainer of
Emacs, for our LUG speaker tonight via Zoom.

John will be showing us the innovative cross-platform Nix package manager
(on a Mac no less) and then show some of his favorite Emacs add-ons.

NOTE: THE ZOOM LINK HAS CHANGED FOR THIS MONTH!
Zoom Info:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4438544691?pwd=MzFhSHJBTkp0MU1GOUlCN0V0dE1tQT09
Meeting ID: 443 854 4691
Password: 4438544691

As usual, we will start hanging out at 6:45pm pacific and formally start
the meeting a bit after 7pm.

-braddock

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 8:03 PM Nick Hyde via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
wrote:

> SGVLUG Meeting Subject:
> Emacs, Nix and Emacs+Nix! (Speaker: John Wiegley)
>
> This meeting will be on-line via Zoom (see link below)
>
> Talk Summary:
> This will be a live coding session diving into the basics of the Nix
> language and package manager, how John uses Nix to build up an Emacs
> environment on a macOS system, and then a tour of some of John's most-used
> Emacs packages he's installed in that environment.
>
> Speaker Bio:
> John Wiegley has been writing software professionally for 34 years: 29 of
> those using Emacs, and 8 years using Nix. He's written many different
> packages for Emacs over the years, served as the Emacs maintainer for a
> couple of years, and has been active in the open source community for a
> long while. His background was initially in compilers and debuggers, though
> he has spent most of the last decade in functional languages and formal
> verification.
>
> Agenda:
> 6:45 - Introductions, chat
> 7:05 - Announcements
> 7:15 - Talk start -- Emacs, Nix and Emacs+Nix!
>
> Zoom Info:
> https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4438544691?pwd=MzFhSHJBTkp0MU1GOUlCN0V0dE1tQT09
> Meeting ID: 443 854 4691
> Password: 4438544691
>
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>
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