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 vivekanandan_ks | Hi All
Using NixOS and Nix for almost 2 years. I don't care even if I'm officially being included in the GSoC or not. But I wanna do contribute and learn from it.
I'm interested in things like creating NixOS or Home manager module, nixpkgs packaging, or anything that needs some help through contributions. | 18:19:33 |
| vivekanandan_ks | Any mentors please utilise my time, energy and passion for this | 18:22:53 |
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| James | Hi! I'm James, an undergraduate CS student. I've been running NixOS in my homelab for over a year across 15 systems: VPSs, home servers, laptops, and VMs. I've written NixOS modules and derivations, have an open PR to nixpkgs (#492556) and built a library in pure Nix to help with scaling my homelab. I would be very interested in working on the modular services migration project. Here's my GitHub: https://github.com/James-1701 and I would love to connect with a mentor to talk further. | 03:37:48 |
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 Robert Hensing (roberth) | Hi Prashant, nice to meet you! I've asked the security tracker folks to see if they're available for mentoring. Feel free to get in touch with them. Those would be good preparations, especially considering that the idea is very rough/broad. But note that work done before the approval does not count towards the project evaluation. | 21:57:37 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | Hi Amrit, that's much appreciated! I've merged your PR so potential mentors can find it. See https://github.com/NixOS/GSoC/pull/34 | 21:58:50 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | Did you also ask in the #haskell:nixos.org channel? It is also known that many packages on hackage are stale, but if you can figure out some activate and desired packages, that seems like a perfectly valid proposition to me. | 22:00:57 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | Hi James! Impressive homelab! Let's discuss in the #modular-services:nixos.org channel | 22:04:21 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | Much appreciated either which way! If something stands out to you on the idea list, and you're eligible, I'd say go for it. And otherwise, or if it doesn't work out, they're plenty to be done around here ;). Do you have a particular area of interest? What kind of skills would you like to use / what are you learning? | 22:10:10 |
| Tristan Ross | Hi everyone, I'm available to mentor people who wish to help out on the SBOM and supply chain security side of things. A few of the ideas are around cleaning things up so the metadata which exists currently is more stable to rely upon. | 22:17:05 |
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 Yyovil | anybody who's probably working on this should follow the talk he had earlier this feb.
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/8SNMXT-describing_nix_closures_using_sboms/
nice for BG. also track determinate sys activities on this end.
I'm so invested into this rn. | 15:43:53 |
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| 28 Feb 2026 |
 catsarecute | i will ask there, thank you | 11:45:06 |
 Chinmoy | Hey, I’m Chinmoy,an undergraduate CS student. I’ve been using NixOS full-time for the past few months and have been digging fairly deep into my setup (separate boot specializations for VirtualBox/QEMU conflicts, and experimenting with a small microVM orchestrator integrated with Nix as a side project).
I’ve contributed upstream to Rust projects like Tokio and Walker, and I’m comfortable working in async/systems Rust.
For GSoC, I’m currently leaning toward contributing to Statix, particularly around improving lint coverage and diagnostics and digging into Nix evaluation internals. I’d appreciate feedback on whether that aligns with current priorities and where it would make sense to start.
GitHub: https://github.com/daschinmoy21
Site: https://chinmoy.site | 14:07:53 |
