# Recurring funding for making macOS first-class citizen in Nix ecosystem
**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/recurring-funding-for-making-macos-first-class-citizen-in-nix-ecosystem/11386
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [February 4, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/recurring-funding-for-making-macos-first-class-citizen-in-nix-ecosystem/11386 "2021-02-04T13:35:51Z")
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### Author:  [@domenkozar](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/domenkozar)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/recurring-funding-for-making-macos-first-class-citizen-in-nix-ecosystem/11386/1 "2021-02-04T13:35:51Z")
I’d like to invite teams which consist of macOS users to contribute and pledge towards development of streamlining experience using Nix.
We have the fundamentals there, but there’s quite some work
(see the campaign for the list) to ensure that macOS users get similar experience as on Linux.
You might ask, why would I care if I’m a Linux user?
That’s a good question, good support for macOS is crucial for any non-trivial size of a developer team.
[https://opencollective.com/nix-macos](https://opencollective.com/nix-macos)
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### Author:  [@anka-213](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/anka-213)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2021, 2:17pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/recurring-funding-for-making-macos-first-class-citizen-in-nix-ecosystem/11386/2 "2021-02-24T14:17:19Z")
Is it possible to contribute less than $50 per month? I’d love to contribute, but that is above my budget.
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### Author:  [@domenkozar](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/domenkozar)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/recurring-funding-for-making-macos-first-class-citizen-in-nix-ecosystem/11386/3 "2021-02-25T13:03:57Z")
I’ve picked $50 as the minimal donation as I’d like to encourage everyone to contribute a meaningful amount towards paying someone fairly for their work.
I understand if that’s out of your budget. I’d like to invite you to contribute to NixOS Foundation at [The NixOS Foundation - Open Collective](http://opencollective.com/nixos)
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### Author:  [@j-k](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/j-k)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2021, 10:24am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/recurring-funding-for-making-macos-first-class-citizen-in-nix-ecosystem/11386/4 "2021-02-26T10:24:26Z")
How does one raise this to people/organizations without coming across too direct?
I’m aware Mitchell Hashimoto has been using Nix on Mac for a while and HashiCorp uses nix for their dev environment for Waypoint
> **[GitHub - hashicorp/waypoint: A tool to build, deploy, and release any...](https://github.com/hashicorp/waypoint)**
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> A tool to build, deploy, and release any application on any platform. - GitHub - hashicorp/waypoint: A tool to build, deploy, and release any application on any platform.
[https://github.com/search?q=org%3Ahashicorp++extension%3Anix&type=Code](https://github.com/search?q=org%3Ahashicorp++extension%3Anix&type=Code)
[https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1281264669806620672](https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1281264669806620672)
[https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1258858528556453888](https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1258858528556453888)
(Although there has been some movement to a NixOS VM)
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I guess one way to make it more visible to Mac + Nix users is if the open collective link was included [GitHub - LnL7/nix-darwin: nix modules for darwin](https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin) and then naturally @LnL7 should be able to expense things for work on that project too
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### Author:  [@domenkozar](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/domenkozar)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/recurring-funding-for-making-macos-first-class-citizen-in-nix-ecosystem/11386/5 "2021-03-08T21:24:04Z")
I’ve emailed him and he’s planning to chip in!
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### Author:  [@domenkozar](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/domenkozar)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/recurring-funding-for-making-macos-first-class-citizen-in-nix-ecosystem/11386/6 "2021-03-11T14:27:46Z")
Toonn is starting the work on macOS issues:
> **[Toonn is starting the work on macOS issues - Nix 🖤 macOS](https://opencollective.com/nix-macos/updates/toonn-is-starting-the-work-on-macos-issues)**
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> Hi everyone, Toonn (https://github.com/toonn) is about to start going through the issues, first tackling SDK update to 10.13 that more and more software requires. As time passes, he is going to put together an overview of issues with macOS...
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### Author:  [@domenkozar](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/domenkozar)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/recurring-funding-for-making-macos-first-class-citizen-in-nix-ecosystem/11386/7 "2021-04-06T15:58:26Z")
Mitchell has contributed, thanks @j-k for the suggestion 🙂