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Let’s have Nix meet-up in the Netherlands again! We'll meet the 26th at the ProcoliX office in Dordrecht (near Rotterdam) and have two speakers and plenty of time to socialize with other Nix folks discourse.nixos.org/t/nixnl-meetup… #NixOS #Nix #ProcoliX #Fediversity #Basisbeveiliging

🎉 The Sovereign Tech Fund is investing €230K to strengthen Nixpkgs and the global #OpenSource supply chain. Focus areas: • CI performance • Reproducible builds • Faster Nix • Unprivileged daemon Early result: fod-oracle.org #NixOS as critical infrastructure.

Join us for the 6th Zürich ZHF hackathon on May 24-25! Help prepare for #NixOS 25.05 Warbler release: fix bugs, learn #Nix, network with contributors! Bring a friend, and meet the community. Details discourse.nixos.org/t/2025-05-24-2…

Only 10 days left to apply for Summer of Nix 2025! Are you a student or early-career dev passionate about #OSS? Join the program to work on real #FOSS projects, learn #Nix with experienced mentors, and connect with a global community. Apply by May 12: github.com/ngi-nix/summer…

🚀 NixCon 2025 website is LIVE! Join us Sept 5-7 in Switzerland for "bridge-building" across the Nix community. ✅ Sponsorships open ✅ Hotel info coming soon ✅ Volunteers needed (especially AV!) Check it out: 2025.nixcon.org #NixCon2025 #NixOS

North County #Nix had its first 2025 meetup on April 20th! Thanks to Connor, Grant, Tristan, and Dan for joining the fun! #NixOS More details: discourse.nixos.org/t/north-county…

North County NUG #2 🗓 April 20, 2025 | ⏰ 18:00–20:00 📍 Windmill Food Hall, Carlsbad, CA The North County Nix User Group is back! hether you're deep into NixOS or just curious about declarative development, you're warmly invited. northcounty.socal-nug.com/events/2025-04…

NixOS Meetup in Darmstadt on April 7th, 2025! Join us for great discussions and networking. Open to all! 📍 Location: Chaos Computer Club Darmstadt e.V., Wilhelminenstr. 17, 64283 Darmstadt See you there! #NixOS discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-meetup…

Nix packages are thawing—don’t panic (yet). The team is on it! ❄️ Stay frosty! Details here discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-packages…

A thing about Nix for new users: flakes make dependency management less… flakey. *A flake is just a repo with a flake.nix file *It enforces structure & manages dependencies *Flake references use a URL-like syntax and can be locked for reproducibility More nix.dev

Ocean Sprint 2025: A Wrap! A week of focused Nix development brought major improvements across the ecosystem! Thanks to everyone involved! Full report here: discourse.nixos.org/t/oceansprint-…

Mark your calendars! #NixCon 2025 is set: 📍 Where: OST, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland 📅 When: September 5-7, 2025 (Fri-Sun) Tag your fellow Nix fans, spread the word, and let’s make this the best NixCon yet! More details here: discourse.nixos.org/t/nixcon-2025-… #Nix #NixOS

Casual #NixOS Meetup in Vienna! Join an informal NixOS meetup to chat about all things #Nix & NixOS! 📅 April 7, 2025 | 🕕 18:00 | 📍 GT_, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien discourse.nixos.org/t/community-ca…

Farid Zakaria set out to build a Nix derivation from scratch—no helpers, just raw JSON! 🛠️ After battling errors, missing keys, and hashing surprises, he finally got it working. 🎉 Read the full adventure here: discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-derivati…

Good news for all #Nix fans—Nix 2.27.0 has landed, and it’s bringing some great quality-of-life improvements! A huge shoutout to the 21 contributors who made this release happen! Want to upgrade? Get it here releases.nixos.org/?prefix=nix/ni… Read the announcement discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-2-27-0-r…

No formal wrap-up notes from Planet Nix, but who needs them when a picture says more than a thousand words? One highlight? Engaging discussions with the @System76 team about their COSMIC which runs on @AmpereComputing and, of course, #NixOS.

"This is how we should have done computer science forever." The latest NGI Zero podcast dives into how #NixOS is challenging the status quo and why a more open, reproducible approach to computing matters. @NGIZero/episodes/the-internet-should-be-a-public-good-nixos-clevis/transcript" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">podcast.nlnet.nl/@NGIZero/episo… Give it a listen and join the conversation!

Calling all mentors! The NixOS Foundation is looking for contributors to guide the next generation through the Outreachy program. Submit your project and help make open source more inclusive. Deadline: March 14 Make a difference—apply today! discourse.nixos.org/t/become-an-ou…

We’re looking for the NixOS 25.05 Release Manager to collaborate closely with @NotAShelf, @getchoo, and the team. Interested? Learn more here: discourse.nixos.org/t/25-05-call-f…

✨ A warm memory from NUG #10 in February! ✨ NUG meetups are a space to gather, share, and learn about our favorite package manager in a welcoming, informal setting. 📅 Next meetup: May 3, 2025 We’d love to see you there! socal-nug.com #NixOS #NixCommunity