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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.

Official Spaces

These are spaces are moderated by the NixOS Moderation Team

Events

See the Events page for past and upcoming events!

See also the NixCon Fediverse or YouTube sites for past NixCon recordings.

Github

NixOS - Official Nix Org
- Contribute packages on nixpkgs
- Develop the nix language
- Participate in RFC discussions
Nix-Community - Explore community projects!

Forums

Official Discourse forum - Ask for help here!

Chats

Matrix

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

#users:nixos.org - Main Room
#wiki:nixos.org - Wiki Contributors

Note: If your client doesn't support Matrix Spaces, see the MatrixRooms page for list of all rooms.

Zulip

NixOS Governance Discussion - Ongoing NixOS Governance discussions occurring here. Requires contribution to nixpkgs to participate.

Jitsi

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

Officially Maintained

Unmoderated spaces maintained by the moderation team.

Mastodon

Twitter

LinkedIn

Unofficial Spaces

Spaces maintained by members of the community.

Forums

r/NixOS on Reddit (>25k members)

!nix@programming.dev on Lemmy (>1k subscribers)

Stack Overflow (>1k questions answered)
Unix & Linux Stack Exchange (>400 questions answered)

Chats

Discord

IRC

Previously hosted on Freenode but was switched to libera.chat. There are public logs from the Freenode versions of these channels.

#nixos - General NixOS and Nix help
#nix-darwin - Nix on macOS
#nixos-chat - Informal chit-chat channel when going off-topic in the main channel
#nixos-dev - Nix and NixOS development (#nixos for questions)
#nixos-emacs - Nix Emacs discussion

Regional IRC

#nixos-cs - Czech and Slovak NixOS community
#nixos-fr - French NixOS community
#nixos - German NixOS community on hackint.org (webchat)

Regional Telegram

There are some regional Telegram groups dedicated to NixOS:

@NixOS_zhcn - Chinese, English
@ru_nixos - Russian, English
@nixos_en - English
@nixosbr - Portuguese
@nixosita - Italian

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-Next to the [https://nixos.org/nixos/community.html ''Contributing to NixOS'' section at the ''NixOS community'' page on the official NixOS website] we want to additionally describe how you can get involved in the NixOS ecosystem.
+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.
-== Development ==
+See the [[Nix Community]] article to learn more about who we are.
-Development of [[Nix Package Manager|Nix]] and [[NixOS]] happens primarily on [[Nixpkgs]]. You can contribute by helping reporting, diagnosing  and closing issues, by creating, testing and reviewing pull-requests, and by becoming a maintainer of packages and modules hosted on the repository. For more information, see [[Nixpkgs#Contributing|the contributing section of the Nixpkgs article]].
+== Official Spaces ==
+These are spaces are moderated by the [https://nixos.org/community/teams/moderation/ NixOS Moderation Team]
-== Communication ==
+=== Events ===
+See the [[Events]] page for past and upcoming events!
-=== Join the mailinglist ===
+See also the [https://conf.tube/accounts/nixcon/video-channels NixCon Fediverse] or [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nixos YouTube] sites for past NixCon recordings.
-There is currently only one official Mailinglist related to NixOS, [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nix-devel nix-devel]. You don't need to be a developer to use nix-devel.
+=== Github ===
-=== Join the chat ===
+* [https://github.com/NixOS/ NixOS] - Official Nix Org
+** Contribute packages on [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs nixpkgs]
+** Develop the [https://github.com/NixOS/nix nix language]
+** Participate in [https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs RFC discussions]
+* [https://github.com/nix-community/ Nix-Community] - Explore community projects!
-The official NixOS channel resides on [https://webchat.freenode.net/ irc.freenode.org] in <code>#nixos</code> ([https://botbot.me/freenode/nixos/ searchable Log]) and the wiki channel is at  <code>#nixos-wiki</code>.
+=== Forums ===
+* [https://discourse.nixos.org/ Official Discourse forum] - Ask for help here!
-In addition to that there is also the unofficial [https://riot.im/app/#/room/#nix:matrix.org NixOS matrix channel]
+=== Chats ===
-=== Join the forums ===
+==== Matrix ====
-Check out the [https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/ NixOS Reddit channel] and help answering questions on Stack Overflow for [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nixos NixOS] and [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nix nix].
+The official [https://matrix.to/#/#community:nixos.org NixOS Community Space] has rooms on many Nix topics.
+* [https://matrix.to/#/#users:nixos.org #users:nixos.org] - Main Room
+* [https://matrix.to/#/#wiki:nixos.org #wiki:nixos.org] - Wiki Contributors
+Note: If your client doesn't support [https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/ Matrix Spaces], see the [[MatrixRooms]] page for list of all rooms.
+==== Zulip ====
+* [https://nixpkgs.zulipchat.com/#recent NixOS Governance Discussion]  - Ongoing NixOS Governance discussions occurring here. Requires contribution to nixpkgs to participate.
+==== Jitsi ====
+* [https://meet.jit.si/NixOfficeHours OfficeHours] - Weekly Nix Office Hours (1600-2000 UTC Fridays, more times as mentors are available)
+== Officially Maintained ==
+''Unmoderated'' spaces maintained by the moderation team.
+==== [https://chaos.social/@nixos_org Mastodon] ====
+==== [https://twitter.com/nixos_org Twitter] ====
+==== [https://www.linkedin.com/company/nixos-foundation/ LinkedIn] ====
+== Unofficial Spaces ==
+Spaces maintained by members of the community.
+=== Forums ===
+* [https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/ r/NixOS] on Reddit (>25k members)
+* [https://programming.dev/c/nix !nix@programming.dev] on Lemmy (>1k subscribers)
+* [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nixos+or+nix+or+nixops+or+nixpkgs Stack Overflow] (>1k questions answered)
+* [https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nixos+or+nix+or+nixops+or+nixpkgs Unix & Linux Stack Exchange] (>400 questions answered)
+=== Chats ===
+==== [https://discord.gg/Vs4SWzFnWz Discord] ====
+==== IRC ====
+Previously hosted on Freenode but was switched to libera.chat. There are [https://logs.nix.samueldr.com/ public logs] from the Freenode versions of these channels.
+* [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos #nixos] - General NixOS and Nix help
+* [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos/nix-darwin #nix-darwin] - Nix on macOS
+* [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-chat #nixos-chat] - Informal chit-chat channel when going off-topic in the main channel
+* [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-dev #nixos-dev] - Nix and NixOS development (#nixos for questions)
+* [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-emacs #nixos-emacs] - Nix Emacs discussion
+===== Regional IRC =====
+* [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-cs #nixos-cs] - Czech and Slovak NixOS community
+* [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-fr #nixos-fr] - French NixOS community
+* [irc://irc.hackint.org/nixos #nixos] - German NixOS community on [https://hackint.org hackint.org] ([https://webirc.hackint.org webchat])
+==== Regional Telegram ====
+There are some regional Telegram groups dedicated to NixOS:
+* [https://t.me/NixOS_zhcn @NixOS_zhcn] - Chinese, English
+* [https://t.me/ru_nixos @ru_nixos] - Russian, English
+* [https://t.me/nixos_en @nixos_en] - English
+* [https://t.me/nixosbr @nixosbr] - Portuguese
+* [https://t.me/nixosita @nixosita] - Italian
+[[Category:Community]]