The NixOS Foundation is a legal entity serving as an interface between the Nix community and external matters, such a legals, financials, administration, partnerships and co. The NixOS Foundation is operated by the members of the NixOS Foundation board. See the board page for overall responsibilities and current members.
These are the official by-laws:
- the Dutch version is the one filed with the Kamer Van Koophandel (KvK) and is the authoritative version
- the English version is a translation done by a lawyer
Personal information that is not relevant to the reader is redacted.
Taken from the by-laws:
Develop, propagate, and promote the adoption of a purely functional software deployment model and to support open-source projects that implement that model, as well as other activities that relate to, pertain to, and/or can be conducive to the foregoing in the broadest sense.
In order to bring items to our attention, you have the following mechanisms available:
- Talk to the individual members if you want to pick our brain. We try to make ourselves available.
- For private matters, please contact foundation@nixos.org.
- If you need something to be done, please open an issue. New issues will be reviewed during our Biweekly meetings.
For current board members see the website.
Past board members:
- Eelco Dolstra: June 2015 - May 2024
- Armijn Hemel: June 2015 - Feb 2023
- Robert Vermaas: June 2015 - Feb 2023
- Théophane Hufschmitt: June 2022 - June 2024
- Domen Kožar: June 2022 - March 2024
- Jonas Chevalier: March 2024 - June 2024
Past board observers:
- Graham Christensen: June 2022 - May 2023
- Jonas Chevalier: Feb 2023 - March 2024
- Ryan Lahfa: Nov 2023 - Nov 2024
- Janik Haag: March 2024 - July 2024