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+  `((title .
+           "GNU Guix talk at OpenTechSummit, Berlin, May 14th")
+    (author . "Ludovic Courtès")
+    (date unquote (make-date 0 0 0 0 12 5 2015 7200))
+    (content
+      div
+      (p (a (@ (href "http://elephly.net/"))
+            "Ricardo Wurmus")
+         " will be giving a talk about GNU Guix and GuixSD at the "
+         (a (@ (href "http://opentechsummit.net/"))
+            "OpenTechSummit")
+         " in Berlin, Germany, on May 14th.  The talk will take place at "
+         (a (@ (href "http://opentechsummit.net/Programm.pdf"))
+            "3:15pm in track 2")
+         " and covers topics such as the fundamentals of functional package management, software management features with GNU Guix, and system description in GuixSD."
+         (br))
+      (p "Ricardo has been making major contributions to Guix over the last year and is a long-time free software contributor.  If you are in Berlin area, do not miss the talk!"
+         (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 (GuixSD) is an advanced distribution of the GNU system that relies on GNU Guix."
+         (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.  It also offers a declarative approach to operating system configuration management.  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."
+         (br))
+      (p "At this stage the Guix System Distribution 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)))))