June was a big month at NGI@Nix. We welcomed fresh energy, extra hands, and shipped a bunch of projects. Here’s your quick behind-the-scenes look at what’s been happening.
Extra Forces, Extra Velocity
Thanks to the fantastic support from our Summer of Nix participants: @Prince213, @ethancedwards, and @junestepp, and our first-ever Outreachy intern @themadbit, our team grew by almost 30% this summer!
That growth translated into faster packaging, quicker reviews, and long-awaited projects finally moving forward. Huge kudos to @eljamm, @julienmalka and @erictapen for stepping up to mentor, plan, and guide this growing crew.
Highlights from the Summer of Nix & Outreachy team:
@Prince213 shipped:
- OpenWebCalendar [#785]
- NodeBB [#1094]
- Draupnir [#1068]
- And is in the final stretch of Ethersync [#612]
@ethancedwards is deep into:
@junestepp took on:
- PeerTube [#821]
@themadbit packaged:
@themadbit, our Outreachy intern (mentored by @eljamm), has been on fire, diving into:
- NGIpkgs module system and overview internals
- Packaging across different ecosystems (Python, Rust, etc.)
- Documenting his journey in blog posts
Speaking of which, don’t miss Mark’s latest post.
Weekly Demos = Weekly Wins
As projects hit milestones, we’ve kicked off weekly demo sessions during our Friday syncs. This is a new tradition that adds a well-deserved “yeah, we did that!” energy to close out the week 
Also worth celebrating: @OPNA2608 closed Blink [#1259], a privacy-first video conferencing tool, and Inventaire [#1078], a book sharing service — try running a demo on your machine. She also added the galene-stream plugin.
It’s not all green checkmarks, we’re also tackling difficult questions like [#1254] and [#1269]. These open discussions are key to shaping long-term sustainability.
Ops + Maintenance
@imincik keeps the broader project on track, for example by introducing a milestone view, and helps the team dealing with the growing complexity and shifting priorities within the project. @eljamm further refined our task management process, which results in a neat overview of projects in progress. He also contributed a series of UI improvements and under-the-hood cleanups to ngi.nixos.org. @erethon continues to support infra and jumps in across coordination gaps when needed, while @fricklerhandwerk and @wamirez take care of logistics in the background.
Bonus Read
In case you missed it, check out this post from @ethancedwards on setting up NixOS with LVM on LUKS.
The Nix@NGI team is part of a coordinated effort to support selected free and open source software (FOSS) projects, by making them available as Nix packages or NixOS service modules. It is funded by the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative through the NLNet Foundation and the NixOS Foundation.