Welcome to the first edition of NixOS weekly. We will do our best to release this newsletter every second week. If there is something you think we could improve, please let us know.

News

• NixOS 17.03 release manager is Robin Gloster. Thank you and we are looking to help you get 17.03 out of the door.
• Typing nix − funding campaign: Help Théophane Hufschmitt get his internship funded.

Meetups

• Jan 24, 2017, London NixOS User Group at CodeNode, London, UK
• Feb 25, 2017, Amsterdam Nix Meetup at Container Solutions, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Feb 18, 2017, Berlin NixOS Meetup at schnee von morgen, Berlin, Germany

Meetups that just happened:

• Jan 19, 2017, Tokyo NixOS Meetup at Fujisan.co.jp, Tokyo, Japan
• Jan 17, 2017, NixOS Dublin Meetup at Workday, Dublin, Ireland

Reading

• Reproducible builds summit in Berlin by Rok Garbas
• rust-cargo by Joachim Schiele
• Scripting pulseaudio, bluetooth, jack by Anders Papitto
• pulseaudio tcp streaming by Joachim Schiele
• apu by Joachim Schiele
• Push and pull deployment of Nix packages by Sander van der Burg

Presentations

• CRM053: NixOS (in German) by Franz Pletz
• FrOSCon 2016: NixOS by Franz Pletz
• ZuriHac 2016: Functional Programming at LumiGuide by Bas van Dijk

Jobs

Write us if you are looking for some Nix developers.

Editor’s corner

Since this is first edition it is not perfect, but eventually we will get there. You can help us as well.