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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

Matrix

There is an official Nix chat presence on Matrix. There is a 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 #nix:nixos.org.

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-aarch64	NixOS on ARM (64 bits)
#nixos-borg	The `ofborg` development channel.
#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-gm	A social channel for gender minorities in the NixOS community. This is an invite only channel. Introduce yourself in #nixos-gm-invites and someone will invite you.
#nixos-ruby	Ruby ecosystem in NixOS
#nixos-on-your-router	Using NixOS on/as a router
#nixos-wiki	Wiki coordination channel
#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

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_zhcn	Chinese, English
@ru_nixos	Russian, English
@nixos_en	English
@nixosbr	Portuguese

Discourse forum

For a free-form discussion forum, checkout the official NixOS Discourse or the NixOS subreddit. For Q&A style discussion of any Nix related issues, check out Stack Overflow questions tagged Nix,NixOS, NixOps and Nixpkgs.

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.

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

Peti - Weekly Haskell packaging
NixFriday - Weekly Nix teaching sessions

Mailing list (no longer used)

There was previously an official mailing list related to NixOS, nix-devel. It has been replaced by the NixOS Discourse forum, see above.

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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 === Chat ===
-==== IRC on Freenode ====
+==== Matrix ====
-Nix community chat channels are hosted on [http://freenode.net/ the Freenode IRC network]; the primary official user channel is [irc://irc.freenode.net/nixos #nixos]<sup>[https://botbot.me/freenode/nixos/ logs]</sup>, the development channel is [irc://irc.freenode.net/nixos-dev #nixos-dev] and the wiki channel is [irc://irc.freenode.net/nixos-wiki #nixos-wiki]<sup>[https://logs.nix.samueldr.com/nixos-wiki/ logs]</sup>.
+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].
+==== IRC ====
+There is a Nix presence on [https://libera.chat/ the Libera.Chat IRC network]; the primary user channel is [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos #nixos], and the development channel is [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-dev #nixos-dev].
+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
@@ Line 14: / Line 20: @@
 ! Channel
 ! Description
-! Log
 |-
-! [irc://irc.freenode.net/nixos #nixos]
+! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos/nixos #nixos]
 | General NixOS and Nix help
-| [https://logs.nix.samueldr.com/nixos logs]
 |-
-! [irc://irc.freenode.net/nix-darwin #nix-darwin]
+! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos/nix-darwin #nix-darwin]
 | Nix on macOS
-| [https://logs.nix.samueldr.com/nix-darwin/ logs]
 |-
-! [irc://irc.freenode.net/nixos-aarch64 #nixos-aarch64]
+! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos/nixos-aarch64 #nixos-aarch64]
 | NixOS on ARM (64 bits)
-| [https://logs.nix.samueldr.com/nixos-aarch64/ logs]
 |-
-! [irc://irc.freenode.net/nixos #nixos-borg]
+! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-borg #nixos-borg]
 | The <tt>ofborg</tt> development channel.
-| [https://logs.nix.samueldr.com/nixos-borg/ logs]
 |-
-! [irc://irc.freenode.net/nixos #nixos-chat]
+! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-chat #nixos-chat]
 | An informal channel for chit-chatting when going off-topic on the main channel.
-| [https://logs.nix.samueldr.com/nixos-chat/ logs]
 |-
-! [irc://irc.freenode.net/nixos-dev #nixos-dev]
+! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-dev #nixos-dev]
 | Nix and NixOS development (#nixos for questions)
-| [https://logs.nix.samueldr.com/nixos-dev/ logs]
 |-
-! [irc://irc.freenode.net/nixos-gm #nixos-gm]
+! [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 [irc://irc.freenode.net/nixos-gm-invites #nixos-gm-invites] and someone will invite you.
+| 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.
-| not logged
 |-
-! [irc://irc.freenode.net/nixos-ruby #nixos-ruby]
+! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-ruby #nixos-ruby]
 | Ruby ecosystem in NixOS
-| [https://logs.nix.samueldr.com/nixos-ruby/ logs]
 |-
-! [irc://irc.freenode.net/nixos-on-your-router #nixos-on-your-router]
+! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-on-your-router #nixos-on-your-router]
 | Using NixOS on/as a router
-| [https://logs.nix.samueldr.com/nixos-on-your-router/ logs]
 |-
-! [irc://irc.freenode.net/nixos-wiki #nixos-wiki]
+! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-wiki #nixos-wiki]
 | Wiki coordination channel
-| [https://logs.nix.samueldr.com/nixos-wiki/ logs]
 |-
-! [irc://irc.freenode.net/nixos-emacs #nixos-emacs]
+! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-emacs #nixos-emacs]
 | Nix Emacs discussions
-| [https://logs.nix.samueldr.com/nixos-emacs/ logs]
 |}
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 ! Channel
 ! Description
-! Log
 |-
-! [irc://irc.freenode.net/nixos-cs #nixos-cs]
+! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-cs #nixos-cs]
 | Czech and Slovak NixOS community
-| [https://logs.nix.samueldr.com/nixos-cs/ logs]
 |-
-! [irc://irc.freenode.net/nixos-fr #nixos-fr]
+! [ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/nixos-fr #nixos-fr]
 | French NixOS community
-| [https://logs.nix.samueldr.com/nixos-fr/ logs]
 |-
 ! [irc://irc.hackint.org/nixos #nixos]
 | German NixOS community on [https://hackint.org hackint.org irc network] (webchat version: https://webirc.hackint.org)
-| To be done
 |-
 |}
-==== Matrix ====
-In addition to these IRC channels being bridged, there is also the official [https://matrix.to/#/#nix:nixos.org?via=nixos.org&via=matrix.org&via=fairydust.space NixOS matrix channel].
 ==== Discord ====
@@ Line 91: / Line 77: @@
 ==== Telegram ====
-There are some regional telegram groups dedicated to NixOS:
+There are some regional Telegram groups dedicated to NixOS:
 {|class=table
 |+Regional Telegram channels
@@ Line 113: / Line 99: @@
 |}
-=== Mailinglist ===
+=== Discourse forum ===
-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 this mailing list, although much of the discussion delves into deeper technical issues. Note that it is currently being [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nix-devel/rosQdK40mas replaced by the NixOS Discourse forum], see below.
+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].
-=== Forums ===
+=== Videos ===
-For a free-form discussion forum, checkout the [https://discourse.nixos.org/ NixOS Discourse] or the [https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/ NixOS Reddit channel]. 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].
+NixCon has an official Fediverse presence, [https://conf.tube/accounts/nixcon/video-channels @nixcon@conf.tube], where talk videos are published.
-=== YouTube ===
+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.
-You can find [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nixos a variety of talks and demos of Nix-related material] on YouTube. Of particular note are the [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgknCdxP89ReQzhfKwMYjLdwWsc7us8ns NixCon 2017 Talks] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvH5qU1qBXY&list=PL_IxoDz1Nq2Y7mIxMZ28mVtjRbbnlVdmy NixCon 2015 Videos]
 === Twitter ===
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 === Streaming ===
-* [https://github.com/worldofpeace/events/tree/master/office-hours NixOS Office Hours] - Bi-weekly discussions
 * [https://www.twitch.tv/peti343 Peti] - Weekly Haskell packaging
 * [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 ==