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2024-02-02T23:00:00Z → 2024-02-03T23:00:00ZFOSDEM 2024

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2023-10-19T16:00:00Z→2023-10-19T20:00:00Z NixOS User / Learning Group Bochum Meetup

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2024-02-21T17:00:00Z→2024-02-21T19:00:00Z Copenhagen NixOS User Group

Prosa (ADA lokale) Vester Farimagsgade 37A, 1606 København

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2024-05-22T16:00:00Z→2024-05-22T18:00:00Z Copenhagen NixOS User Group

Prosa (ADA lokale) Vester Farimagsgade 37A, 1606 København

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2024-08-21T16:00:00Z→2024-08-21T18:00:00Z Copenhagen NixOS User Group

Prosa (ADA lokale) Vester Farimagsgade 37A, 1606 København

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2023-11-20T18:00:00Z NixOS Meetup in Darmstadt, Germany.

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2023-11-16T17:00:00Z→2023-11-16T21:00:00Z NixOS User / Learning Group Bochum

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2023-11-17T10:30:00Z→2023-11-17T11:30:00Z Developer Dialogues

2023 Nix Developer Dialogues

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.

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2023-11-19T19:30:00Z→2023-11-19T20:30:00Z Developer Dialogues

2023 Nix Developer Dialogues

Ryan Lahfa – Convergent configuration with NixOS

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.

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2023-11-23T10:30:00Z→2023-11-23T11:30:00Z Developer Dialogues

2023 Nix Developer Dialogues

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.

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2023-11-30T10:30:00Z→2023-11-30T11:30:00Z Developer Dialogues

2023 Nix Developer Dialogues

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.

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2023-11-27T19:30:00Z→2023-11-27T20:30:00Z Developer Dialogues

2023 Nix Developer Dialogues

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.

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2023-11-20T10:30:00Z→2023-11-20T11:30:00Z Developer Dialogues

2023 Nix Developer Dialogues

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.

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2024-11-20T17:00:00Z→2024-11-20T19:00:00Z Copenhagen NixOS User Group

Prosa (ADA lokale) Vester Farimagsgade 37A, 1606 København

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2023-12-01T10:30:00Z→2023-12-01T11:30:00Z Developer Dialogues

2023 Nix Developer Dialogues

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.

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2023-12-03T19:30:00Z→2023-12-03T20:30:00Z Developer Dialogues

2023 Nix Developer Dialogues

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.

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2023-12-07T10:30:00Z→2023-12-07T11:30:00Z Developer Dialogues

2023 Nix Developer Dialogues

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.

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Follow-up information

@sergeK wrote up more details on the topics we discussed on the show here: On nixpkgs and the "AI" (follow-up to 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues)

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2023-12-03T10:30:00Z→2023-12-03T11:30:00Z Developer Dialogues

2023 Nix Developer Dialogues

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.

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2023-12-12T18:00:00Z→2023-12-12T21:00:00ZNix Parisian meetup

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2023-12-08T19:30:00Z→2023-12-08T20:30:00Z Developer Dialogues

2023 Nix Developer Dialogues

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.

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