| 26 Feb 2026 |
 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 |
| 27 Feb 2026 |
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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 |
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| Kishan | Hi everyone 👋
I’m Kishan, a Computer Science undergraduate from Bengaluru.
I’ve built and maintained a backend platform currently serving active users, where stability, structured outputs, and real-world usage constraints mattered every day. I’ve worked extensively with Python, REST APIs, containerized deployments, and cloud-connected workflows. I’m comfortable reading large codebases, understanding architecture decisions, and improving systems without breaking existing functionality.
Beyond that, I’ve worked on ML pipelines handling structured data,
contributed to open-source projects(Ak-dskit) through proper review cycles, and I genuinely enjoy refactoring and modernizing systems to make them cleaner, more maintainable, and future-proof.
I value clear communication, ownership, and shipping meaningful improvements.
Looking forward to building with you all.
Github: https://github.com/Kishan0703 | 05:18:38 |
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| Allan Dinakaran | Hi everyone! I'm Allan Dinakaran
I just got to know about nix and the nix os from the Gsoc organization list. Well, I'm actually a newbie to nix and I'm spending my time surfing through the documentation from the official site.
Well, I'm excited to learn nix and interact with y'all.
| 14:50:01 |
| Allan Dinakaran | * Hi everyone! I'm Allan Dinakaran, a CS student.
I just got to know about nix and the nix os from the Gsoc organization list. Well, I'm actually a newbie to nix and I'm spending my time surfing through the documentation from the official site.
Well, I'm excited to learn nix and interact with y'all.
| 14:51:49 |
| Allan Dinakaran | * Hi everyone! I'm Allan Dinakaran, a CS student.
I just got to know about nix and the nix os from the Gsoc organization list. Well, I'm actually a newbie to nix and I'm spending my time surfing through the documentation from the official site.
Well, I'm excited to learn nix and interact with y'all.
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| Lisanna | Hi all! A few days ago I filed https://github.com/NixOS/GSoC/issues/37 to propose myself as a mentor for the builder protocol refactor. Figured I should also join the matrix channel. | 21:41:08 |
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| Aakash K | Hello everyone,
My name is Aakash, and I am currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science.
I recently came across Nix and NixOS through the GSoC organization list. As I am new to the Nix ecosystem, I have started exploring the official documentation to understand its concepts and fundamentals.
I am genuinely excited to learn more about Nix, deepen my knowledge, and engage with this community. I look forward to interacting with you all and contributing as I continue my learning journey.
| 12:15:10 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | lints tend to be quite trivial syntactic pattern matching unless you get into building the significant code infra that would be required for more advanced checks. That said there's probably steps that could be made along the way. There's also opportunity for cross-pollination with other functionality like better refactor tools. E.g. a file move operation that correctly updates relative path literals throughout the codebase to the new relative location has a similar information requirement to a lint that wants to reverse engineer a file: where is it imported, how? Does it look like a package function, module, etc.
I don't maintain any linters, but improving the ecosystem around rnix and its linter(s) seems like a good angle for a project. Did you talk to the statix maintainer yet? | 15:54:00 |
| Chinmoy | yes i am talking to the maintainer. Current priority is LSP integration and updating nixpkgs to point to the updated fork of statix instead of the current repo.
Type Inference is also on the list but would require a change in the hours for the project.
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| Chinmoy | The file move + relative path update is a great direction too — though that naturally comes after LSP infrastructure is in place since you need the language server foundation to expose it as an editor operation. | 16:19:21 |
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