Nix Community

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This article provides an overview of the Nix Community, to give an idea of who we - the users and maintainers of the Nix Ecosystem - are. To find the various ways to reach us, see the get in touch.

People

Nix Ecosystem users and contributors are a mixed bunch, ranging from hobbyist to professional, from industry to academia. Typical user groups include:

• desktop users using Nix and NixOS to make life on their personal machines easier;
• power users duplicating their environment across their personal and work machines;
• developers using Nix to reproducibly build their software, and to manage various development environments;
• system administrators declaratively configuring servers and clusters with NixOS and NixOps;
• researchers interested in making the computation in their research reproducible.

Institutions

NixOS Foundation

The NixOS Foundation is the official steward of the Nix Ecosystem, appointing the leadership of the community maintained Nixpkgs collection - which hosts all Nix packages and NixOS modules - as well as NixOps and Hydra. It also funds the official Hydra instance which builds the Nixpkgs collection.

Consultants

There are a several qualified consultants that can provide support for Nix-based systems:

• Enlambda
• tweag.io
• nixcloud
• Serokell
• Mayflower

Industry

Many companies utilize Nix-bases systems for various purposes. Prominent examples include:

• Mozilla
• Tumblr

Academia

Nix has its roots in academia, and while some research continues to develop the Nix Ecosystem further, Nix is also being extensively used to manage powerful computing clusters:

• Human Brain Project
• Blue Brain Project

Contribute

Development of 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 the contributing section of the Nixpkgs article.