| 13 Apr 2024 |
 ronef | I'm going to meet up for coffee with another potential provider this week. If there's others folks want to look into, happy to help out | 17:52:00 |
 patka | What do you mean exactly with "provider"? | 18:52:54 |
 Arian | Storage provider | 19:12:24 |
 [K]ate Temkin | In reply to @janik0:matrix.org
without some tangible proof things are being addressed first.
This is a bit hard to act on, can you list a few things you would like to change or a few points that you think need addressing?
Apologies for the delay -- I wanted to talk to some of the folks at my company (Tactile Metrology) who are more active contributors to Nix and related projects. I understand that tangible/measurable progress on this kind of thing can be difficult to provide.
A lot of what would be comforting to me on this front would be to see more active representation of underrepresented groups in foundation decision making – whether at the board level, or at any level that has the ability to make binding decisions about parts of the foundation-represented/controlled ecosystem.
| 19:16:39 |
| [K]ate Temkin | Personally, one of the things I found worrying came from an informal survey I asked a few weeks ago. In a couple of places, I asked folks what they felt was missing or mysterious about Nix, in the hopes that I could help create some documentation to fill the gaps. Among the technical responses were a number of underrepresented folks who felt they couldn't actually engage with community resources due to the community feeling unsafe. | 19:23:23 |
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| 14 Apr 2024 |
| ronef | this specifically is storage but I'd want to continue building up our relationships across the board on any area | 00:06:43 |
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 @emma:rory.gay | In reply to @colemickens:matrix.org
(removed a comment about backblaze pricing after realizing I don't really know enough numbers to speculate on various object storage providers) you get free egress up to 3x monthly storage | 01:31:51 |
| @emma:rory.gay | and iirc theyre part of the bandwidth alliance, so if you back it with cloudflare its free egress alltogether | 01:32:30 |
| @emma:rory.gay | and then theres their b2 reserve thing that has completely free egress at 19.5k per 250TB per year | 01:33:31 |
| @emma:rory.gay | seems to start at 20TB, not sure what the block size is after that though | 01:34:45 |
| 15 Apr 2024 |
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| 16 Apr 2024 |
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| 18 Apr 2024 |
| ronef | Just posted the financial summary https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-financial-summary-a-transparent-look-into-2023/43640 | 15:20:17 |
| ronef | Feedback super appreciated as this is only the second year we've been having this as an explicit effort | 15:20:41 |
| ronef | If anyone is interested to help boost on socials as well it can be helpful in making sure folks see it and also the next effort of growing interest for more structured donations in the scope of Sustainable Nix <3
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ronefroni_nixos-foundation-financial-summary-a-transparent-activity-7186747697242984449-14v-?
https://twitter.com/ronefroni/status/1780982712943473104 | 15:34:12 |
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| @reedrichards:matrix.org | Not sure if this is the right place to post this but I'm starting a NixOS meetup in SF starting next Wednesday, Is there anything I could do to get it posted on https://www.meetup.com/silicon-valley-nix-nixos-user-group/, https://www.linkedin.com/company/nixos-foundation/posts/?feedView=all, or any of the other social pages? | 21:19:39 |
| ronef | I manage the meetup group and can get it posted there! can you ping me @ ron@floxdev.com and we can work on the meetup link together? | 22:37:15 |
| ronef | I'll also share the discourse post with the marketing team, but might be better that they post it after we make the meetup invite? | 22:38:03 |
| ronef | Also, would you prefer to create a matrix room inside of the Nix channel or do you want to keep it a separate matrix channel completely? (might be a bit more discoverable with the former) | 22:39:29 |
| @reedrichards:matrix.org | Yea I'd for sure prefer to keep the matrix room inside of the nix channel! | 22:49:04 |
| @reedrichards:matrix.org | I'll shoot you an email | 22:49:10 |
| 19 Apr 2024 |
 delroth | question to the board: who from the foundation side is tracking how the Summer of Nix money is being used and whether that's actually a valuable investment for the community? | 16:00:49 |
| delroth | my semi-external view of Summer of Nix at this point:
- almost nothing gets contributed back to nixpkgs - the result of SoN is too low quality to actually contribute back so instead it gets stored to rot in ngipkgs
- the foundation pays people to admin the program who seem to have very little experience with nix development and are more interested in pushing development techniques that haven't proven to be effective ("mob programming" - all I've heard from prior participants is that it's a waste of time, and it's very much pushing away potential participants, to the point that I think some exceptions have been made this year?)
- you could argue it serves to attract new contributors, but uh, do we have any evidence that this works? I know of one prior participant converting to becoming a contributor, but the program really isn't structured well to do this.
- in the meantime, it's the biggest cost center to the project. Yes, it's all paid for by nlnet in the end, but uh, that's not a good way to use public money on nix?
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