Get In Touch
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).
Channel | Description |
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#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 |
Channel | Description |
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#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: https://discord.gg/Vs4SWzFnWz
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:
Channel | Languages |
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@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)