# How many people are paid to work on Nix/Nixpkgs?

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-many-people-are-paid-to-work-on-nix-nixpkgs/8307
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [July 25, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-many-people-are-paid-to-work-on-nix-nixpkgs/8307 "2020-07-25T17:46:04Z")
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### Author: ![kvtb](https://discourse.nixos.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ad7895/32.png) [@kvtb](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/kvtb)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-many-people-are-paid-to-work-on-nix-nixpkgs/8307/89 "2020-10-22T19:47:30Z")

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I’ve created this topic for casual contributors, hopefully it helps in being able to contribute lightweight style (which is already much more than not being able to contribute at all)

> [@Casual Nixpkgs contributions](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/casual-nixpkgs-contributions/9607):
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> Referring to the discussion here [How many people are paid to work on Nix/Nixpkgs?](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-many-people-are-paid-to-work-on-nix-nixpkgs/8307) I open this topic to be able do to casual nixpkgs contributions. The idea is to lower the threshold to contribute to Nixpkgs for people like me who are not a dev, do not have a Github account, do not check out nixpkgs via git locally, are merely users, etc. etc etc but still want to share something so now and then. Here is my first casual contribution. A sponsored PR (=someone who wants to shape it into an actual …

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