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This article extends nixos.org/community for how to get in touch and lists additional platforms to meet community members.

See the Nix Community article to learn more about who we are.

Events

You can meet people at several Nix/NixOS Events.

Online

Forums

Chats

Matrix

The official NixOS Community Space has rooms on many Nix topics.

The main Nix Matrix room is #users:nixos.org.
The Wiki contributors room is #wiki:nixos.org.

Matrix Spaces are a beta feature, not supported by all clients or homeservers. If your client doesn't support spaces see MatrixRooms for a list of rooms.

IRC

There is a Nix presence on the Libera.Chat IRC network; the primary user channel is #nixos, and the development channel is #nixos-dev.

Previously, the Nix channels were on Freenode, a different IRC network. There are public logs from the Freenode versions of these channels. There is no logging set up on the Libera.Chat versions (yet).

Nix and NixOS channels
Channel	Description
#nixos	General NixOS and Nix help
#nix-darwin	Nix on macOS
#nixos-chat	An informal channel for chit-chatting when going off-topic on the main channel.
#nixos-dev	Nix and NixOS development (#nixos for questions)
#nixos-emacs	Nix Emacs discussions

Regional channels
Channel	Description
#nixos-cs	Czech and Slovak NixOS community
#nixos-fr	French NixOS community
#nixos	German NixOS community on hackint.org irc network (webchat version: https://webirc.hackint.org)

Discord

The unofficial Discord server is located at discord.gg/RbvHtGa.

At the time of writing, the server has almost 10k members, with many channels for answering questions or any Nix/NixOS related talk. Feel free to drop by and tell us your story!

Telegram

There are some regional Telegram groups dedicated to NixOS:

Regional Telegram channels
Channel	Languages
@NixOS_zhcn	Chinese, English
@ru_nixos	Russian, English
@nixos_en	English
@nixosbr	Portuguese

Videos

NixCon has an official Fediverse presence, @nixcon@conf.tube, where talk videos are published.

You can also find a variety of talks and demos of Nix-related material, including videos from older NixCons, on YouTube.

Streaming

OfficeHours - Weekly Nix Office Hours (1600-2000 UTC Fridays, more times as mentors are available)

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-This article provides an overview of various ways of engaging the Nix community. See the [[Nix Community]] article to learn more about who we are, and the [https://nixos.org/nixos/community.html official NixOS community page] for more information.
+This article extends [https://nixos.org/community.html nixos.org/community] for how to get in touch and lists additional platforms to meet community members.
+See the [[Nix Community]] article to learn more about who we are.
+== Events ==
+You can meet people at several Nix/NixOS [[Events]].
 == Online ==
-=== Chat ===
+=== Forums ===
+* [https://discourse.nixos.org/ Official Discourse forum]
+* [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nixos+or+nix+or+nixops+or+nixpkgs Stack Overflow]
+* [https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nixos+or+nix+or+nixops+or+nixpkgs Unix & Linux Stack Exchange]
+=== Chats ===
 ==== Matrix ====
-There is an official Nix chat presence on Matrix.  There is a [https://matrix.to/#/#community:nixos.org NixOS Community Space] containing rooms on many Nix topics.  Matrix Spaces are a beta feature, not supported by all clients or homeservers.  The main Nix Matrix room is [https://matrix.to/#/#nix:nixos.org #nix:nixos.org].
+The official [https://matrix.to/#/#community:nixos.org NixOS Community Space] has rooms on many Nix topics.
+* The main Nix Matrix room is [https://matrix.to/#/#users:nixos.org #users:nixos.org].
+* The Wiki contributors room is [https://matrix.to/#/#wiki:nixos.org #wiki:nixos.org].
+Matrix Spaces are a beta feature, not supported by all clients or homeservers.
+If your client doesn't support spaces see [[MatrixRooms]] for a list of rooms.
 ==== IRC ====
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 Previously, the Nix channels were on Freenode, a different IRC network.  There are [https://logs.nix.samueldr.com/ public logs] from the Freenode versions of these channels.  There is no logging set up on the Libera.Chat versions (yet).
-{|class=table
+{| class="wikitable table"
 |+Nix and NixOS channels
 |-
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 ! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos/nix-darwin #nix-darwin]
 | Nix on macOS
-|-
-! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos/nixos-aarch64 #nixos-aarch64]
-| NixOS on ARM (64 bits)
 |-
 ! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-chat #nixos-chat]
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 ! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-dev #nixos-dev]
 | Nix and NixOS development (#nixos for questions)
-|-
-! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-gm #nixos-gm]
-| A social channel for gender minorities in the NixOS community.  This is an invite only channel. Introduce yourself in [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-gm-invites #nixos-gm-invites] and someone will invite you.
-|-
-! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-on-your-router #nixos-on-your-router]
-| Using NixOS on/as a router
-|-
-! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-wiki #nixos-wiki]
-| Wiki coordination channel
 |-
 ! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-emacs #nixos-emacs]
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 |}
-{|class=table
+{| class="wikitable table"
 |+Regional channels
 |-
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 ! [irc://irc.hackint.org/nixos #nixos]
 | German NixOS community on [https://hackint.org hackint.org irc network] (webchat version: https://webirc.hackint.org)
-|-
 |}
 ==== Discord ====
-An unofficial Discord server is available at [https://discord.gg/RbvHtGa discord.gg/RbvHtGa].
+The unofficial Discord server is located at [https://discord.gg/RbvHtGa discord.gg/RbvHtGa].
+At the time of writing, the server has almost 10k members, with many channels for answering questions or any Nix/NixOS related talk. Feel free to drop by and tell us your story!
 ==== Telegram ====
 There are some regional Telegram groups dedicated to NixOS:
-{|class=table
+{| class="wikitable table"
 |+Regional Telegram channels
 |-
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 ! [https://t.me/nixos_en @nixos_en]
 | English
-|-
 |-
 ! [https://t.me/nixosbr @nixosbr]
 | Portuguese
-|-
 |}
-=== Discourse forum ===
-For a free-form discussion forum, checkout the [https://discourse.nixos.org/ official NixOS Discourse] or the [https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/ NixOS subreddit]. For Q&A style discussion of any Nix related issues, check out Stack Overflow questions tagged [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nix Nix],[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nixos NixOS], [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nixops NixOps] and [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nixpkgs Nixpkgs].
 === Videos ===
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 You can also find [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nixos a variety of talks and demos of Nix-related material], including videos from older NixCons, on YouTube.
-=== Twitter ===
-The NixOS Foundation has an [https://twitter.com/nixos_org official Twitter account], and the hashtag [https://twitter.com/hashtag/NixOS #NixOS] is handy to find content related to the Nix Ecosystem (#nix is too ambiguous).
 === Streaming ===
-* [https://www.twitch.tv/peti343 Peti] - Weekly Haskell packaging
+* [https://meet.jit.si/NixOfficeHours OfficeHours] - Weekly Nix Office Hours (1600-2000 UTC Fridays, more times as mentors are available)
-* [https://zimbatm.com/NixFriday/ NixFriday] - Weekly Nix teaching sessions
-=== Mailing list (no longer used) ===
-There was previously an official mailing list related to NixOS, [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nix-devel nix-devel]. It has been [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nix-devel/rosQdK40mas replaced by the NixOS Discourse forum], see above.
-== Events ==
-=== Meetups ===
-An ever-growing number of Nix and NixOS related meetups can be found [https://www.meetup.com/find/?keywords=nixos&radius=Infinity on meetup.com]. In this section, we list regional meetups dedicated to NixOS and the Nix Ecosystem; if you cannot find a meetup near you, try seeking out a functional programming or DevOps meetup in your area, as Nix-related topics can often be discussed in such a context.
-==== Europe ====
-* [https://discourse.nixos.org/t/german-casual-mumble-meetup-every-thursday-19-00-23-00-cest/7941 German mumble meetup]
-* [https://www.meetup.com/Berlin-NixOS-Meetup/ Berlin, Germany]
-* [https://www.meetup.com/NixOS-London/ London, UK]
-* [https://www.meetup.com/Munich-NixOS-Meetup/ Munich, Germany]
-* [https://www.meetup.com/Amsterdam-Nix-Meetup/ Amsterdam, the Netherlands]
-* [https://www.meetup.com/Meetup-NixOS-Montpellier/ Montpellier, France]
-* [https://www.meetup.com/Suisse-Romande-NixOS-User-Group/ Romandie, Switzerland]
-==== North-America ====
-* [https://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Nix-NixOS-User-Group/ Bay Area, California]
-* [https://www.meetup.com/Nova-Nix-NixOS-NixOps-Meetup/ Reston, Virginia]
-==== Asia ====
-* [https://www.meetup.com/Tokyo-NixOS-Meetup/ Tokyo, Japan]
-* [https://www.meetup.com/Singapore-NixOS-Nix-User-Group/ Singapore, Singapore]
-=== NixCon ===
-NixCon is the official Nix Ecosystem conference, which in the future will occur on a yearly basis. Previous NixCons:
-* [https://2020.nixcon.org/ NixCon 2020]
+[[Category:Community]]
-* [https://2019.nixcon.org/ NixCon 2019]
-* [http://nixcon2018.org/ NixCon 2018]
-* [http://nixcon2017.org/ NixCon 2017]
-* [https://nixos.github.io/nixcon/2015/index.html NixCon 2015]