Worker cooperative specializing in GNU Guix and Guile Scheme
Services
We offer a wide range of services, from training to commercial support and DevOps. We can tailor each of these to your needs and discuss any questions you have before formulating a plan to minimize your effort and maximize success.
Software development
Is something useful missing in GNU Guix or GNU Guile? Or perhaps you would like a longstanding issue resolved? You can hire us to fix bugs or develop new features to be contributed to these projects.
Packaging
Whether it's getting a software packaged in GNU Guix or integrating a new service, our combined experience with contributing and reviewing over a thousand of such contributions is at your disposal.
Transitioning to free software
We've been there. Migrating from a proprietary system you have little control over to a free software one, where there are infinite possibilities, can be both exciting and challenging. As free software consultants, we can offer expert advice on how to proceed and accompany you at every step of the process.
Training
Get empowered to do more with GNU Guix and GNU Guile! We provide all levels of training, from basic usage to exploring the internals of each system. This training can be customized to your needs, with live sessions and ongoing support available.
Commercial support
Is your organization interested in the technology GNU Guix provides but nervous to depend on a community of volunteers for support? Guixotic offers support contracts giving you the assurance that there will always be experts available to assist in case of need.
SysAdmin
Overwhelmed by the complexity of managing the configuration and deployment of a production system? Whether it is a web server or a high performance computing (HPC) build farm, GNU Guix is an excellent tool for taming complexity, and we can assist you in leveraging it, enabling you to stay in control of your computing and deployments.
Reproducible software development kits (SDK)
Ensure a solid foundation for your development team by providing them with a development environment that can be conveniently deployed in a bit-for-bit, reproducible fashion. This ensures a streamlined process free from worries that something won't work later. Make it work now and every time.
Upstreaming contributions
Our experience interacting with many free software projects and their processes means we are well positioned to help you integrate features and improvements made to upstream. This reduces your technical debt and costs associated with having to indefinitely keep reintegrating your changes as the project evolves, or worst, being stuck on an outdated, potentially unsafe version.
DevOps
Streamline your continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines by building your software reproducibly and efficiently with GNU Guix, with the option to generate software bundles in various formats and for various system architectures, ready for deployment or distribution.
Contact Us
Not sure whether our offerings match your needs? Email contact@guixotic.coop. We'd be happy to discuss your exact requirements and potential solutions.
Get In TouchMeet Guixotic
We are a team of experienced free software experts, drawing from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. As a cooperative, we are all equal owners and members, dedicated to providing the highest quality work for any client, large or small.
Maxim
Free software advocate with decades of GNU/Linux, development and consulting experience with a BEng in microelectronics. GNU Guix co-maintainer since 2019.
Enjoys music and the sound of heavily distorted electric guitars.
Robin
Free software advocate who enjoys programming language design, working on compilers, and exploring system architecture. If given the opportunity and interest, they will bless an interested listener with a treasure trove of obscure Lisp history.
About Us
Guixotic: Your friendly worker cooperative
We're a free software consultancy focused on GNU Guix, GNU Guile, and related technologies. As a cooperative, our work is rooted in democratic and egalitarian principles. We prioritize software freedom both as the basis of our own labor, and as an essential tool for sharing knowledge.
Collectively, we are members, contributors, and maintainers of GNU Guix and GNU Guile. John also helps maintain and contributes to the popular Nonguix channel while Robin develops Guile-Emacs.
Support Us
Do you love GNU Guix, GNU Guile, and free software as much as we do but don't currently have any particular project you'd like to hire us for? If you would like to help support us to do the ongoing work we contribute to these projects, we gratefully accept donations.
DonateFrequently Asked Questions
Please don't hesitate to reach out to us if you have any other questions!
You're a cooperative?
Yes! We believe strongly in equal partnerships and working together towards shared goals. Collaboration is key in the way we work and interact, so we wanted to make this a foundation of our organization, ensuring its direction is collectively determined by each and every Guixotic workers.
Why Guix and Guile?
We believe GNU Guix is the future of package management, computing environments, system configuration and management, and so much more. Likewise Guile is a simple yet powerful, expressive, and versatile language. Both of these have changed how we approach computing personally and professionally. We're thrilled to help you discover and leverage these tools to effectively address your own needs.
I don't know about Guix or Guile, can you still help me?
Yes! We offer introductory training for both Guix and Guile, and can help you master the basics quickly. Whether you want to use Guix or Guile for personal use or for a business, we're here to help.
I don't have any particular need right now, but would love to support you!
That's not a question! But we're happy to take donations to support the work we do every day for the greater GNU Guix and Guile community. We'll have other options soon, but for now you can donate via Liberapay.