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+  (use-modules (srfi srfi-19))
+  `((title .
+           "Guix-Tox talk at PyConFR, October 17th")
+    (author . "Ludovic Courtès")
+    (date unquote (make-date 0 0 0 0 9 10 2015 7200))
+    (content
+      div
+      (p "Bonjour ! Cyril Roelandt of Red Hat who works on OpenStack will be "
+         (a (@ (href "http://www.pycon.fr/2015/schedule/presentation/47/"))
+            "giving a talk")
+         " about Guix-Tox at PyConFR in Pau, France, on October 17th."
+         (br))
+      (p (a (@ (href "https://git.framasoft.org/Steap/guix-tox"))
+            "Guix-Tox")
+         " is a young variant of the "
+         (a (@ (href "http://tox.testrun.org/")) "Tox")
+         " \"virtualenv\" management tool for Python that uses "
+         (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-environment.html"))
+            "guix environment")
+         " as its back-end.  In essence, while Tox restricts itself to building pure Python environments, Guix-Tox takes advantages of Guix to build complete environments, including dependencies that are outside Tox's control, thereby improving environment reproducibility.  Cyril will demonstrate practical use cases with OpenStack."
+         (br))
+      (p "If you're around, do not miss the talk.  If you're a Pythonista, you can help by providing feedback on Guix-Tox!"
+         (br))
+      (h4 "About GNU Guix")
+      (p (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix"))
+            "GNU Guix")
+         " is a functional package manager for the GNU system.  The Guix System Distribution or GuixSD is an advanced distribution of the GNU system that relies on GNU Guix and "
+         (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html"))
+            "respects the user's freedom")
+         "."
+         (br))
+      (p "In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection.  Guix uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, except that packages are defined as native "
+         (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guile"))
+            "Guile")
+         " modules, using extensions to the "
+         (a (@ (href "http://schemers.org")) "Scheme")
+         " language.  GuixSD offers a declarative approach to operating system configuration management, and is highly customizable and hackable."
+         (br))
+      (p "GuixSD can be used on an i686 or x86_64 machine.  It is also possible to use Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux system, including on mips64el and armv7."
+         (br)))))