GNU Guix is consists of Scheme code that implements the deployment model of the Nix package management tool. In fact, it currently talks to a build daemon whose code comes from Nix (see the manual for details.) Nix was initially written by Eelco Dolstra; other people have been contributing to it. See `nix/AUTHORS' for details. The fine people listed below have contributed code to GNU Guix (in alphabetical order): Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org> Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.com> Federico Beffa <beffa@fbengineering.ch> Marek Benc <merkur32@gmail.com> Sou Bunnbu (宋文武) <iyzsong@gmail.com> Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker@suse.cz> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> Alírio Eyng <alirioeyng@gmail.com> Joshua Grant <tadni@riseup.net> Raimon Grau <raimonster@gmail.com> Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> Aljosha Papsch <misc@rpapsch.de> Manolis Ragkousis <manolis837@gmail.com> Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com> Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> Cyrill Schenkel <cyrill.schenkel@gmail.com> Jason Self <j@jxself.org> Sree Harsha Totakura <sreeharsha@totakura.in> David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> Mark H. Weaver <mhw@netris.org>