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?
- NixOS forum on DiscourseThe 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.
- NixOS Matrix spaceReal-time help, development chat, and off-topic community discussion takes place on Matrix.
NixCon
The NixCon Team organizes a conference once a year.
Previous Conferences
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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Board members:
- Eelco Dolstra — Chair
- Ron Efroni — Treasurer
- Théophane Hufschmitt — Secretary
- Domen Kozar — Member
- Jonas Chevalier — Member
- Ryan Lahfa — Observer
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.