Hi everyone 👋

First of all, sorry for not having participated in this community for a while.
I have both not been using Matrix at all and have reduced my involvement in the NixOS community as a whole in the past years due to governance concerns (some might be able to relate to that), although I have remained a user of Nix/NixOS to this day.

Anyways, my name is Matthias, and I am the "person in Graz" that has initially set up the NixOS User Group Austria website and am the domain admin for nixos.at. Some might know me from the talks on Nix/NixOS I gave at Linuxtage Graz. You can also find and likely more easily reach me at @totoroot@ibe.social in the Fediverse.

Some notes on the status quo of the website:

I have always and will continue to see the user group as a community project and have no interest in solely governing its purpose and goals. If the people that regularly meet up in Vienna decide on maintaing their own website at https://vienna.nix.ug that is of course absolutely fine :)

I am happy to hear that people are meeting up regularly and am hoping to be able to join one again in the future.

Feel free to open up a PR at https://codeberg.org/nixos-user-group-austria/website to add a link to the newly created website if you want. I'll also happily link to any meetup posts on the new site if you decide to maintain your regular meetups there instead. Please let me know ✌️

The meetups in Graz never quite got off the ground as I hoped, also due to me never really pushing for it. If someone is interested in organizing one together, please reach out to me :)

phaer has reached out to me personally in the Fediverse multiple times, as he got annoyed by how clunky it was to get a meetup published on nixos.at and I absolutely understand that.

However, there seems to have been a misunderstanding, as phaer apparently thought that it is important to me that the DNS entry for nixos.at points to the VPS I initially hosted the website on and to this day.

I'd be more than happy to instead deploy the existiing website via CI/CD on Codeberg and change the DNS entry to point there instead, so that people that are part of the Codeberg organisation can independently merge PRs and thereby post new meetups.

phaer tried to add CI in https://codeberg.org/nixos-user-group-austria/website/pulls/21 but it never got done. I always found Woodpecker CI on Codeberg unnecessarily complicated to set up 🙃

That being said, if someone wants to take a stab at getting CI/CD going and publish the site to the now available Codeberg Pages, please feel free to open up a PR :)

I am currently not able to invest any time in this.

Also, everyone who would like to be involved and has attended the meetups in Vienna can of course also join the organisation that manages the website repository on Codeberg:
https://codeberg.org/nixos-user-group-austria

Feel free to ask any questions if things are still unclear ☺️

Cheers!

Hey Matthias :)

However, there seems to have been a misunderstanding, as phaer apparently thought that it is important to me that the DNS entry for nixos.at points to the VPS I initially hosted the website on and to this day.

No hard feelings from my side. I am also not entirely sure if this channel is the right forum to have this conversations and would have appreciated if you would have given me the opportunity to respond to those misunderstandings in the same channel they happened in beforehand.

For the record: I don't think the representation above is entirely accurate; I did explicitly ask you about moving that DNS record, share some credentials to update the site, or even taking over hosting of the page entirely back when it was still hosted on easyname.
Also you did say you would implement CI deployment multiple times before i even tried it (e.g. in March 2023 & and March 2025). I did indeed fail to do so in August 2025; probably due to overthinking but also due to a nix build being to heavy for the quite resource constrained codeberg ci.
codeberg pages were/are also quite unstable which led to the retirement of their pages-server backend a few months later in November 2025.
By that time you claimed you were going to add a gitlab mirror & ci "right now". Allegedly that happened between November and January, but there's no way for anyone but you to see the status of that CI and the meeting I published 6 days ago still isn't online so far. (https://codeberg.org/nixos-user-group-austria/website/commit/6ee8ded6b2dbfba10a0c99af5eadecd1d7df24a1). On the other hand the whole website was broken for 2 weeks due to your VPS serving the wrong tls cert. I/we would have had no chance to fix that without you, even if CI/CD would have been in place.

Anyway, https://codeberg.org/nixos-vienna/nixos-vienna has CI/CD in place, is already hosted by codeberg e.V. and fschn90 as well as Anton (he/him) already have the same permissions as myself there. Happy to add more people as needed, those were just the two who already had published meetups on the old site.

The domain nix.ug is run by a long-standing, very active & responsive community member (Matthew Croughan; might be known for nix.camp, mobile nixos, nix-the-planet and other projects).

Happy to add nixos.at to it's .domains file for the time being and adding a shared landing page once there's active nix(os) meetups outside Vienna.