Community
Nix and NixOS are developed and used by a diverse and welcoming community from all around the world.
The NixOS Foundation aims to promote participation without regard to gender, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, age, or similar personal characteristics.
We want to strive to create and foster community by providing an intentionally welcoming and safe environment where all feel valued and cared for, and where all are given opportunity to participate meaningfully. The Foundation will work with the community in service of this goal.
Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported by contacting the project team at community@nixos.org. The project team is obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident.
Where to talk?
The Nix community is spread across various platforms. Here are the official and unofficial spaces where you can find help, discuss development, and chat with other users.
Official spaces
These spaces are monitored and moderated by the NixOS Moderation Team. This means they are moderated in such a way that they follow the standards and moral values of our community. You can find out more about our moderation team here.
- DiscourseOur official forum is the right place to get help from other users and discuss the development of the projects. There are also Announcements, Job offers and Events.
- Matrix spaceReal-time help, development chat, and off-topic community discussion takes place on Matrix.
- GithubOfficial organization page on Github, where you can find nix, nixpkgs, and other repositories.
Official social-media
These spaces are maintained by our NixOS Marketing Team though not monitored and not moderated by the NixOS Moderation Team.
Our calendars
We use these calendars to schedule events, meetings, and other.
Unofficial spaces
These spaces are not monitored and not moderated by the NixOS Moderation Team. Please be aware that different moral values and rules may apply in these spaces. The NixOS moderation team may advise moderators in these spaces, though does not control or enforce our community values.
The wider ecosystem
There are a few alternative implementations of the idea of purely functional package managers (sorted chronologically by appearance):
NixCon
The NixCon Team organizes a conference once a year.
Previous Conferences
NixCon 2024 - Berlin
NixCon 2023 - Darmstadt
NixCon 2022 - Paris
NixCon 2020 - Online
NixCon 2019 - Brno
NixCon 2018 - London
NixCon 2017 - Munich
NixCon 2015 - Berlin
Meetups
Europe
RFC Process
The "RFC" (request for comments) process is intended to provide a consistent and controlled path for new features to enter the Nix language, packages and OS, so that all community can be confident about the direction the ecosystem is evolving in.
Learn moreTeams
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Foundation board
Responsible for providing operational and organizational support to the NixOS project and community.
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RFC Steering Committee
Responsible for forming an RFC Shepherd team from the available nominations on each RFC, which is then responsible for accepting or rejecting a specific RFC.
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Security Team
Security is a priority for the NixOS community. In addition to community-sourced developments, NixOS has a dedicated team, to look into privately reported security issues.
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Infrastructure Team
Provides infrastructure for the Nix and NixOS community.
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NixOS Release Team
Manages the twice-yearly releases of NixOS. It is responsible the entire release process from setting the roadmap to uploading the artifacts.
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NixCon Team
Helps organize NixCon, a conference for the Nix and NixOS community.
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Marketing Team
Maintains this website, responsible for social media outreach, collects metrics. Help grow the Nix user base.
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Moderation Team
Moderates participation on official community platforms.
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CUDA Team
Making Nix and NixOS the first choice for users of CUDA-accelerated software.
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Nix Team
Maintains and releases the Nix package manager.
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Documentation Team
Works on improving learning experience and documentation.
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Nix Formatting Team
Maintains the official Nix formatter and standard format.
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Geospatial Team
Maintains geospatial software and related NixOS modules
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Xen Project Hypervisor Team
Maintains the Xen Project Hypervisor tooling and the accompanying NixOS modules.
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Nix@NGI Team
Making NixOS the distribution platform for the Next Generation Internet
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Board members:
- Silvan Mosberger — Secretary
- Ryan Trinkle — Director of Legal Affairs
- Maximilian Habryka — Treasurer
- Sebastian Kraus — Director of Community Support
- Ron Efroni Rotman — President/Chair
The mission!
The mission of the foundation is to support the Nix ecosystem's infrastructure, and projects implementing the purely functional deployment model.
In particular, the foundation supports Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS, and operates:
- cache.nixos.org - the NixOS binary cache, containing over 120TB of prebuilt Nix packages.
- hydra.nixos.org - a Nix build farm, consisting of hundreds of macOS, x86-64 (Linux) and aarch64 (Linux) build cores. Hydra executes over 350,000 builds each week.
- Event Funding
The NixOS Foundation is a registered non-profit organisation at the
Chamber of commerce (Kamer van Koophandel) in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
The KvK number is 63520583.
You can contact the foundation by writing an email to foundation@nixos.org.