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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 official NixOS community page for more information.

Online

Chat

IRC on Freenode

Nix community chat channels are hosted on the Freenode IRC network; the primary official user channel is #nixos^logs, the development channel is #nixos-dev and the wiki channel is #nixos-wiki^logs.

Nix and NixOS channels
Channel	Description	Log
#nixos	General NixOS and Nix help	logs
#nix-darwin	Nix on macOS	logs
#nixos-aarch64	NixOS on ARM (64 bits)	logs
#nixos-borg	The `ofborg` development channel.	logs
#nixos-chat	An informal channel for chit-chatting when going off-topic on the main channel.	logs
#nixos-dev	Nix and NixOS development (#nixos for questions)	logs
#nixos-gm	A social channel for gender minorities in the NixOS community. This is an invite only channel, please join #nixos-gm-invites to ask to join the channel.	not logged
#nixos-ruby	Ruby ecosystem in NixOS	logs
#nixos-on-your-router	Using NixOS on/as a router	logs
#nixos-wiki	Wiki coordination channel	logs
#nixos-emacs	Nix Emacs discussions	logs

Regional channels
Channel	Description	Log
#nixos-cs	Czech and Slovak NixOS community	logs
#nixos-fr	French NixOS community	logs
#nixos-de	German NixOS community (formerly #krebs)	logs

Matrix

In addition to these IRC channels being bridged, there is also the unofficial NixOS matrix channel.

Discord

An unofficial Discord server is available at discord.gg/RbvHtGa.

Telegram

There are some regional telegram groups dedicated to NixOS:

Regional Telegram channels
Channel	Languages
@NixOS_zh	Chinese, English
@ru_nixos	Russian, English
@nixos_en	English

Mailinglist

There is currently only one official Mailinglist related to NixOS, nix-devel. You don't need to be a developer to use this mailing list, although much of the discussion delves into deeper technical issues. Note that it is currently being replaced by the NixOS Discourse forum, see below.

Forums

For a free-form discussion forum, checkout the NixOS Discourse or the NixOS Reddit channel. For Q&A style discussion of any Nix related issues, check out stack overflow questions tagged Nix,NixOS, NixOps and Nixpkgs.

YouTube

You can find a variety of talks and demos of Nix-related material on YouTube. Of particular note are the NixCon 2017 Talks and NixCon 2015 Videos

Twitter

The NixOS Foundation has an official Twitter account, and the hashtag #NixOS is handy to find content related to the Nix Ecosystem (#nix is too ambiguous).

Streaming

NixOS Office Hours - Bi-weekly discussions
Peti - Weekly Haskell packaging
NixFriday - Weekly Nix teaching sessions

Events

Meetups

An ever-growing number of Nix and NixOS related meetups can be found 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

North-America

Asia

NixCon

NixCon is the official Nix Ecosystem conference, which in the future will occur on a yearly basis. Previous NixCons:

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