NixOS / Summer of Nix 2022 — Public Lecture Series

In this lecture, Pol will talk to us about the state of Nix at the European Commission. In his own words:

This talk shows how a small team at the European Commission is trialling Nix for packaging, maintaining, and keeping aligned collections of software solutions across workstations and operating systems. The Commission actively funds open-source innovations such as Nix, and thanks to its recently renewed open-source strategy, is encouraging increasing uptake in its own organization.

Special thanks to the NLnet Foundation, the European Commission, the NixOS Foundation, and Tweag for making this event a reality!

The continued discussion for the lecture series is happening over here:
https://matrix.to/#/#son2022-lectures:matrix.org

More information about the Summer of Nix can be found on the website:
https://summer.nixos.org

In this lecture Connor will talk to us about the road to Nix at Replit.

Special thanks to the NLnet Foundation, the European Commission, the NixOS Foundation, and Tweag for making this event a reality!

The continued discussion for the lecture series is happening over here:
https://matrix.to/#/#son2022-lectures:matrix.org

More information about the Summer of Nix can be found on the website:
https://summer.nixos.org

In this lecture Luc will talk to us about bringing Nix’s value to the messy world of deployment

Special thanks to the NLnet Foundation, the European Commission, the NixOS Foundation, and Tweag for making this event a reality!

The continued discussion for the lecture series is happening over here:
https://matrix.to/#/#son2022-lectures:matrix.org

More information about the Summer of Nix can be found on the website:
https://summer.nixos.org

In This Lecture John will talk to us about what's been happening with Nix and IPFS, in his own words. Picking up where we left off integrating IPFS and Nix, we at Obsidian Systems have created a bridge between the Software Heritage archive and IPFS. We'd like to demonstrate those two integrations working together, and discuss the future possibilities of Nix taking a place within a larger family of content-addressing systems.

Special thanks to the NLnet Foundation, the European Commission, the NixOS Foundation, and Tweag for making this event a reality!

The continued discussion for the lecture series is happening over here:
https://matrix.to/#/#son2022-lectures:matrix.org

More information about the Summer of Nix can be found on the website:
https://summer.nixos.org

Reproducibility is considered one of the cornerstones of science: to count as scientific, an observation or prediction has to be verifiable by others. However, over the last 20 years, researchers in many disciplines of science found that a large number of published scientific studies is not reproducible. This has been called the ""reproducibility crisis"".

Konrad will start by illustrating this phenomenon using a few examples, and explain the double role that computing has played in the crisis. Then Konrad will provide a deeper analysis of computational reproducibility, one of the three categories relevant for science. Technically, it is the same problem as reproducible builds, and that means that functional package management as implemented in Nix and Guix is an important part of a solution. However, both Nix and Guix lack some tooling and documentation to make them useful to and acceptable by a wider community of researchers.

Special thanks to the NLnet Foundation, the European Commission, the NixOS Foundation, and Tweag for making this event a reality!

The continued discussion for the lecture series is happening over here:
https://matrix.to/#/#son2022-lectures:matrix.org

More information about the Summer of Nix can be found on the website:
https://summer.nixos.org

Technology is impacting or even driving ever more aspects of our society, and publicly funded research was behind many of the key breakthroughs in recent decades: the internet, the web, and of course Nix itself. From a policy angle "public money" may officially mean "public code", but that copyright licensing imperative says nothing just yet about deployability or sustainability. Lots of technology developed with public funding ungracefully floats into oblivion, simply because it is buried inside a fragile technical context and was never made easy to deploy. Even if people find out about some interesting technology through luck or perseverance, bitrot often sets in almost immediately - change of a single dependency turns the prospective user into an amateur software archeologist by necessity even if they just want to have a look how it works.

Nix offers a different path. By its own or combined with open data, it allows for reproducible research in a cost-effective and non-discriminatory way. For development, it makes collaboration and usage easy - making technology something you can share, adjust and build on at scale. In this talk, Michiel Leenaars from NLnet will explain how Nix is part of the larger ambitions of the Next Generation Internet (NGI), and how nix helps to bring reusable technological building blocks towards the most exotic corners of the internet.

Special thanks to the NLnet Foundation, the European Commission, the NixOS Foundation, and Tweag for making this event a reality!

The continued discussion for the lecture series is happening over here:
https://matrix.to/#/#son2022-lectures:matrix.org

More information about the Summer of Nix can be found on the website:
https://summer.nixos.org

In this lecture, Thomas (a.k.a. tomberek) will talk to us about Hydra, Nix's CI. You can expect an introduction to the Nix based CI project, Hydra. We will cover overall architecture, initial usage, limitations, benefits, and walk people through creating and managing their own projects.

Special thanks to the NLnet Foundation, the European Commission, the NixOS Foundation, and Tweag for making this event a reality!

The continued discussion for the lecture series is happening over here:
https://matrix.to/#/#son2022-lectures:matrix.org

More information about the Summer of Nix can be found on the website:
https://summer.nixos.org

In this lecture, Domen will talk about Nix Is Going Mainstream, in their own words: 4 years after my last talk on how to get Nix mainstream, let's assess the state of where we are today.

Special thanks to the NLnet Foundation, the European Commission, the NixOS Foundation, and Tweag for making this event a reality!

The continued discussion for the lecture series is happening over here:
https://matrix.to/#/#son2022-lectures:matrix.org

More information about the Summer of Nix can be found on the website:
https://summer.nixos.org

In this lecture, Valentin will talk to us about a long standing problem within the Nix community, documentation. Valentin will cover how we are flattening the learning curve, and how you can help.

Special thanks to the NLnet foundation, the European Commission, the NixOS Foundation, and Tweag for making this event a reality!

The continued discussion for the lecture series is happening over here:
https://matrix.to/#/#son2022-lectures:matrix.org

More information about the Summer of Nix can be found on the website:
https://summer.nixos.org

In this lecture, Jon will talk to us about the architecture and history of Nixpkgs. Jon will cover some unique aspects of Nixpkgs, the CI/CD process, a quick how-to on contributing to Nixpkgs, and more.

Special thanks to the NLnet foundation, the European Commission, the NixOS Foundation, and Tweag for making this event a reality!

The continued discussion for the lecture series is happening over here:
https://matrix.to/#/#son2022-lectures:matrix.org

More information about the Summer of Nix can be found on the website:
https://summer.nixos.org

In this lecture, we time travel with Armijn to the early days of NixOS, and see what it looked like back then. When we come back to present days, Armijn will tell us what he thinks the future of NixOS holds.

Special thanks to the NLnet foundation, the European Commission, the NixOS Foundation, and Tweag for making this event a reality!

The continued discussion for the lecture series is happening over here:
https://matrix.to/#/#son2022-lectures:matrix.org

More information about the Summer of Nix can be found on the website:
https://summer.nixos.org

Tentative title: "A high level perspective on Nix - where it came from, how it is positioned compared to other systems and where it is now". The idea is to have 30 minutes presentation and then 30 mins of interactive Q&A.

continued discussion about this lecture series is happening here:

https://matrix.to/#/#son2022-lectures:matrix.org