Théophane Hufschmitt & Matthias Meschede – Build system for businesses: Commercial use of Nix
Théophane (@thufschmitt) leads the Nix Group at Tweag, and Matthias (@mat) is part of the sales team and was formerly responsible for Summer of Nix. In this episode of the 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues we will talk about money: why and how Nix is being adopted by organisations, companies in particular, the tensions and synergies in public and commercial interests, and the economics of open source.
Thomas Bereknyei & John Ericson – Unexplored superpowers: Nix behind the scenes
Tom (@tomberek) has driven many developments around outreach, user experience, and major technical decisions in the past, and continues to be a force of nature when it comes to helping people to get together and make progress on seemingly intractable problems. John (@Ericson2314) is known for his additions to cross-compilation facilities in Nixpkgs, and contributed by far the largest amount of changes to the Nix C++ code base in recent times. Both have been active in the Nix community for many years, and are members of the Nix maintainer team. In this episode of the 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues, we’ll talk about the cornerstone of the ecosystem, teamwork and timelines, stability and innovation, and conquering the world.
Sergei Kozlukov – Deep learning and AI applications in Nixpkgs
Sergei (@SergeK) is a doctoral student at the Aalto University, and participates in the effort to improve CUDA support in Nixpkgs. In this episode of the 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues we’ll see how Nixpkgs and NixOS fare as a platform for AI and deep learning applications, discuss Nixpkgs support for the ROCm and CUDA acceleration frameworks, look into driver support in NixOS, and see in how far NixOS is compatible with the “traditional” workflows involving pip, conda, and containers.
Ronny Lam & Jos van den Oever – Did you try asking? Public funding in the open source economy
Ronny and Jos are project managers at NLnet, and support promising free and open source technology with research grants, with the goal to build the technical foundation for a more participatory and accessible digital world. In this episode of the 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues, we will look at the grand scheme of things, talk about long-term goals, funding opportunities for independent software developers, and the role of Nix in all of this.
Eelco Dolstra & Ron Efroni – Keeping the lights on: News from the NixOS Foundation
By night, Eelco (@edolstra) is the inventor of Nix and chair of the NixOS Foundation board, and Ron (@ron) is a board member and the foundation’s treasurer. By day they each run a company built on top of Nix. In this episode of the 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues we’ll talk about the purpose of the foundation, the board’s role in the Nix community, recent developments at ecosystem scale, and upcoming challenges.
Alexander Groleau – Grab a shovel: The journey to better documentation
Alex (@proofconstruction) is a mathematician and used Nix for many years before becoming a contributor and joining the documentation team. In the last episode of the 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues we will talk about barriers to adoption and contribution, learning and teaching, and how better documentation can bridge the gap to success.
Day-long Nix(OS) meetup in MIlan, as far as I know the first one in Italy!
The event is on meetup and we have a dedicated matrix room, if you want to attend and you don’t want to sign up for proprietary services just write us on Matrix.
If all goes well we were thinking of making the event recurring.
2024-03-20T15:00:00Z→2024-03-20T16:00:00Z Open board meeting
https://meet.google.com/pyr-orzm-ahm
Encouraging open discussion, questions or just about any topic related to the Foundation.
If we don’t have something specific we will roll with the regular NixOS foundation board agenda items.
EDIT: Fixed the time. AM/PM is too complex for me it seems