[SGVLUG] Speaker tonight on Emacs and Nix

[Jeff Keys]

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the Austin Texas area for a dozen years, and San Diego before that for a
bunch. Be well and prosper!

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 2:38 PM Braddock Gaskill via SGVLUG <
sgvlug at sgvlug.net> wrote:

> 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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