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, responsible for maintaining Nixpkgs - 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.