2023-09-16T09:00:00Z→2023-09-17T19:30:00Z There will be a self organized hacking area on Datenspuren both on 16. and 17. September where lots of NixOS people will relax and hack together on things.
Lassulus & Jörg Thalheim – Living the Nix life: deployment systems, freelancing, and meetups
@lassulus and Jörg (@Mic92) have been working with and on NixOS for many years and contributed a lot to what it is today, both in terms of technology and culture. This will be the first episode of the 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues, and we will talk about what it’s like to live the Nix life: networking computers and people, building open source software and communities, freelancing with Numtide, and many other things.
Ryan (@RaitoBezarius) was the release manager for NixOS 23.05 and has been working on NixOS and Nixpkgs security. In this episode of the 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues we will learn more about his work in the Nix ecosystem and talk about challenges and opportunities in extending support for convergent configuration with NixOS.
Rok Garbas – The NixOS hype and where to go from here
Rok (@garbas) has been leading the Nix marketing team since 2020, driving numerous initiatives to get Nix and NixOS into the hands of ever more people. In this episode of the 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues we’ll check in on where we are on the adoption curve at the moment, take a peek behind the scenes of marketing the Nix “brand”, and discuss next steps for diffusion of innovations developed in the Nix ecosystem.
Vincent Ambo & Florian Klink – What’s up with Tvix
For a while now, Vincent (@tazjin), Florian (@flokli), and many others are working on implementing the Nix language evaluator and the Nix store in Rust. In this episode of the 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues we’ll talk about history and future of Tvix, and its role in the Nix ecosystem.
Silvan Mosberger – Paving roads through the jungle: Nixpkgs architecture
Silvan (@infinisil) is one of the most prolific contributors to the Nix ecosystem. Last year he founded the Nixpkgs Architecture Team to solve architectural issues in Nixpkgs that are too big in scope for any single person to tackle. In this episode of the 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues we’ll talk about how Nixpkgs has evolved over the years, what can be learned from the challenges the Nixpkgs architects are dealing with, and explore the roads ahead.
Robert Hensing – Fixed points all the way down: the module system
Robert (@roberth) left his mark on many areas of the Nix ecosystem over the past years, leveraging his deep roots in functional programming in various efforts to restore sanity in code and documentation. In this episode of the 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues we will explore one of the most distinctive and unconventional features of NixOS and many other Nix-based tools: the module system.