NixCon 2020 - Online
NixCon is a community-oriented conference for contributors and users of Nix and NixOS. It's about sharing experiences, inspiring people and discussing future development.
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.
Real-time help, development chat, and off-topic community discussion takes place on Matrix.
NixOS Matrix SpaceThe 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.
Discourse ForumThe community is also active on other platforms.
The NixCon Team organizes a conference once a year.
NixCon is a community-oriented conference for contributors and users of Nix and NixOS. It's about sharing experiences, inspiring people and discussing future development.
NixCon is becoming a regular gathering that everybody expects to happen. This year we met at Brno, Czech Republic. This was the biggest conference so far.
For the first time a Nix conference outside the Germany. London was the first conference that was not run over the weekend, but during the week.
After a year of a break, Nix community gathered at TNG Technology Consulting in Munich.
Taking place in a Berlin-style converted loft, it was the first NixOS conference. It was the first time Nix community came together in such numbers. In two days there were many interesting talks.
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 moreResponsible for forming an RFC Shepherd team from the available nominations on each RFC, which is then responsible for accepting or rejecting a specific RFC.
Members & ContactsSecurity 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.
Members & ContactsThe responsibility of this team is to provide infrastructure for the Nix and NixOS community.
Members & ContactsA team that twice a year manages a release of NixOS. It is responsible the entire release process from setting the roadmap to uploading the artifacts.
Members & ContactsA team that helps organize NixCon, a conference for the Nix and NixOS community.
Members & ContactsIts main responsibility is this website and the content on it. Apart from the team looks for ways to help and improve general communication of the project.
Members & ContactsModerates partitcipation on official community platforms
Members & ContactsThe 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:
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.