| 23 Feb 2026 |
 akjflare | * Hi everyone! I'm Alan, an undergraduate EE student in the Bay who has some experience in software dev. I'm currently working on various embedded systems and basic computer graphics, but I also have some higher-level projects under my belt. I've been a NixOS user for a little over a year now (so I am of course familiar with Nix), and I was quite interested in the issue surrounding setting up profile pictures declaratively. I encountered this issue myself as a user, but I elected to simply go with the default grey profile picture. I actually do have an idea to solve this, which involves storing the image file into the Nix store, then symlinking it into accountsservice/icons. I was also thinking about doing this with desktop wallpapers. Of course, I would need some more time to develop this solution, as I am unfamiliar with large codebases such as that of NixOS. Here's my GitHub account, feel free to take a look :D https://github.com/al-nf | 03:55:48 |
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 @devprashant__19:matrix.org | After going through it....... I'm really interested in contributing to the Security Tracker Improvements project for GSoC! Building scalable full-stack apps and tweaking UIs is exactly what I love doing, so tackling the tracker's backend workflows and frontend fixes sounds like a perfect fit. If there are any good first issues or specific parts of the codebase you'd recommend checking out first, I'm ready to dive in. | 11:29:38 |
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| catsarecute | Hey! I'm a math undergrad and have been using NixOS for around 3 years now. Haven't really gotten into properly configuring stuff on my own until last year though. I primarily work with haskell and a lot of packages seem to be broken and this is a well documented issue. I'm considering this for a GSoC proposal and would love some guidance. | 08:58:43 |
| catsarecute | * Hey! I'm a math undergrad and have been using NixOS for around 3 years now. Haven't really gotten into properly configuring stuff on my own until last year though. I primarily work with haskell and a lot of packages seem to be broken and this is a well documented issue. I'm considering working on this for a GSoC proposal and would love some guidance. | 08:59:01 |
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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 |
