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This article provides an overview of the Nix Community, to give an idea of who we — the users and maintainers of the Nix Ecosystem — are. To find the various ways to reach us, see [[Get In Touch|get in touch]].
 
  
== People ==
 
 
Nix Ecosystem users and contributors are a mixed bunch, ranging from hobbyist to professional, from industry to academia. Typical user groups include:
 
* '''desktop users''' using Nix and NixOS to make life on their personal machines easier;
 
* '''power users''' duplicating their environment across their personal and work machines;
 
* '''developers''' using Nix to reproducibly build their software, and to manage various development environments;
 
* '''system administrators''' declaratively configuring servers and clusters with NixOS and NixOps;
 
* '''researchers''' interested in making the computation in their research reproducible.
 
 
== Institutions ==
 
 
=== NixOS Foundation ===
 
 
The [https://nixos.org/community/teams/foundation-board NixOS Foundation] is responsible for providing operational and organizational support to the [[Nix Ecosystem]] and community. It also funds the [https://hydra.nixos.org/ official Hydra instance] which builds the Nixpkgs collection.
 
 
The ecosystem is developed and maintained by many individuals and self-organised [https://nixos.org/community/#governance-teams community teams].
 
 
=== Consultants ===
 
 
There are a several qualified consultants that can provide support for Nix-based systems:
 
 
* [https://determinate.systems/ Determinate Systems]
 
* [https://nixos.mayflower.consulting/ Mayflower]
 
* [https://nixcademy.com/ Nixcademy]
 
* [https://numtide.com/ Numtide]
 
* [https://obsidian.systems/ Obsidian Systems]
 
* [https://serokell.io/ Serokell]
 
* [https://www.tweag.io/ Tweag I/O]
 
 
=== Industry ===
 
 
Many companies utilize Nix-based systems for various purposes. Prominent examples include:
 
 
* [https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/9473-london-nixos-january-meetup Mozilla] (see also [https://github.com/mozilla/nixpkgs-mozilla nixpkgs-mozilla])
 
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VH945-AaRY Tumblr]
 
* [http://www.logicblox.com/ LogicBlox]
 
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4DgATIjx9E LumiGuide]
 
* [https://rhodecode.com/ RhodeCode]
 
* [https://awakesecurity.com/ Awake Security]
 
* [https://www.atlassian.com/ Atlassian]
 
* [https://www.replit.com/ Replit]
 
* [https://www.magneticinsight.com Magnetic Insight], a medical imaging company.
 
 
=== Academia ===
 
 
Nix has its roots in academia; Nix was the result of [https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf Eelco Dolstra's PhD thesis] in the University of Utrecht, and Hydra was developed at the Technical University of Delft. Some academic research continues to develop the Nix Ecosystem further - notably some work is planned on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AED-dgCa9GU incremental builds] by Guillaume Maudoux as part of his PhD.
 
 
Nix is also being extensively used to manage powerful computing clusters, since its resolution of dependency problems allows letting users install packages ad-hoc with greatly reduced risk of breaking things. Academic clusters utilizing Nix-based software include some of the biggest clusters in the world:
 
 
* [https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/ Human Brain Project]
 
* [https://bluebrain.epfl.ch/ Blue Brain Project]
 
 
== Contribute ==
 
 
See [[Contributing]].
 
 
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