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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]].
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| == People ==
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| Nix Ecosystem users and contributors are a mixed bunch, ranging from hobbyist to professional, from industry to academia. Typical user groups include:
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| * '''desktop users''' using Nix and NixOS to make life on their personal machines easier;
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| * '''power users''' duplicating their environment across their personal and work machines;
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| * '''developers''' using Nix to reproducibly build their software, and to manage various development environments;
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| * '''system administrators''' declaratively configuring servers and clusters with NixOS and NixOps;
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| * '''researchers''' interested in making the computation in their research reproducible.
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| == Institutions ==
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| === NixOS Foundation ===
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| 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.
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| The ecosystem is developed and maintained by many individuals and self-organised [https://nixos.org/community/#governance-teams community teams].
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| === Consultants ===
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| There are a several qualified consultants that can provide support for Nix-based systems:
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| * [https://determinate.systems/ Determinate Systems]
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| * [https://nixos.mayflower.consulting/ Mayflower]
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| * [https://nixcademy.com/ Nixcademy]
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| * [https://numtide.com/ Numtide]
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| * [https://obsidian.systems/ Obsidian Systems]
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| * [https://serokell.io/ Serokell]
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| * [https://www.tweag.io/ Tweag I/O]
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| === Industry ===
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| Many companies utilize Nix-based systems for various purposes. Prominent examples include:
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| * [https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/9473-london-nixos-january-meetup Mozilla] (see also [https://github.com/mozilla/nixpkgs-mozilla nixpkgs-mozilla])
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| * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VH945-AaRY Tumblr]
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| * [http://www.logicblox.com/ LogicBlox]
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| * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4DgATIjx9E LumiGuide]
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| * [https://rhodecode.com/ RhodeCode]
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| * [https://awakesecurity.com/ Awake Security]
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| * [https://www.atlassian.com/ Atlassian]
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| * [https://www.replit.com/ Replit]
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| * [https://www.magneticinsight.com Magnetic Insight], a medical imaging company.
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| === Academia ===
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| 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.
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| 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:
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| * [https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/ Human Brain Project]
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| * [https://bluebrain.epfl.ch/ Blue Brain Project]
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| == Contribute ==
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| See [[Contributing]].
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