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+(begin
+  (use-modules (srfi srfi-19))
+  `((title . "GSoC update")
+    (author . "Ludovic Courtès")
+    (date unquote (make-date 0 0 0 0 19 7 2015 7200))
+    (content
+      div
+      (p "This year Guix was lucky to have "
+         (a (@ (href "https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8264"))
+            "3 GSoC projects")
+         ", and they have made rather good progress so far:"
+         (br))
+      (ul (li "Manolis successfully completed the recipes to get a "
+              (a (@ (href "http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?h=wip-hurd"))
+                 "cross-compilation toolchain to GNU/Hurd")
+              ", with part of the work already in the main branch.  This allowed him to produce statically-linked bootstrap binaries (stumbling upon nasty ld.so issues on the way.)  Manolis is now "
+              (a (@ (href "http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-07/msg00029.html"))
+                 "running Guix and building packages natively")
+              " on GNU/Hurd, which will constitute a large part of the remainder of his project.\n")
+          (li "Rémi has written "
+              (a (@ (href "http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/gnunet.git/tree/"))
+                 "Guile bindings")
+              " to crucial parts of the "
+              (a (@ (href "https://gnunet.org")) "GNUnet")
+              " API, including the file sharing API.  This will allow him to move to the next step: Writing "
+              (a (@ (href "http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-07/msg00033.html"))
+                 "tools to publish and retrieve")
+              " Guix "
+              (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Substitutes.html"))
+                 "substitutes")
+              " (pre-built binaries.)\n")
+          (li "Rohan laid the foundations of the "
+              (a (@ (href "http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/dhcp.git/tree/"))
+                 "DHCP client")
+              ".  The current code can send packets on all the configured network interfaces.  Rohan hopes to have working code to establish leases in the following weeks.\n"))
+      (p "Happy hacking!" (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)))))