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 moderation team at [email protected]. The moderation 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
Discover a comprehensive list of Nix User Groups
America
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.