NixOS Foundation Board Meeting Minutes - Jan 3, 2023

[thufschmitt]

Agenda

• Admin role
• Break down key priorities
• NixCon
• GitHub follow up

Meeting notes

Admin role

• Everybody agrees we need an admin
• Stuff to discuss: Roles and price
  • We could start with just a couple of hours a week, and see whether we need to increase
  • How much money do we have, and how much can we allocate?
    • Figure out the hourly rate
  • Needs a proper job description
  • A non-technical admin could be very useful

Action Items

• Define budget for 2023, understand scope we have for salary
• Define Job description
• Publish.

NixCon

• Didn’t manage to meet with the team
• Try again setting up a meeting

Action items

• Schedule a call with the NixCon team

Metrics

• Bunch of events happening in the coming year, would be nice to gather some data to use for marketing
  • Some metrics at https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-metrics/tree/data and https://nixos.github.io/nixos-metrics/
  • We could get more data
    • number of repos with flake.nix in it
    • fastly metrics
    • Twitter stats

Action Items

• Set a call with Taeer and Rok (who are behind the nixos-metrics repo) to see what we can extract

Accountant

• Two candidates in the Netherlands
• Our accounting is actually fairly simple, so hopefully that should be cheap

GitHub follow-up

• We need to digest the big GitHub thread
• Then we can send that digest to GitHub and discuss it with them

Action items

• Digest the thread
• Send that to GitHub