Results for the second Nix Steering Committee election 2025
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The moment that many of us have been eagerly waiting for is here! The second Nix Steering Committee election has successfully come to a close. The Election Committee sincerely thanks everyone who participated and congratulates the newly elected members. Turnout Metric Value Eligible voters 1010 Registered voters 560 (55 % of eligible) Ballots cast 443 (79 % of registered) Elected members Sorted alphabetically: Username Term duration @cafkafk 2 years @JulienMalka 1 yea...

Elected members

Sorted alphabetically:

Username Term duration
cafkafk 2 years
JulienMalka 1 year
K900 2 years
philiptaron 1 year
tomberek 2 years

Additionally, Ericson2314 and roberth continue to serve the 1-year remainders of their 2-year terms.

  • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.netMEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Note that this isn’t a full re election as previously requested. The pro anduril losers tomberek, john ericson and Robert hensing are still on the SC for more years.

    NixOS is a un-moderated fascist hellpit and it won’t be helped anytime soon because all the cool people (rightfully) left.

    Also no moderation team and k900 has to work with people who wanted to do a backroom purge of him lmao.

    Only 50% registered because the registration system was a fuck, the people who did vote had to comb through badly made candidate sheets.

    NixOS will never go mainstream, dead project leadership wise and relies on Microsoft github or AWS or else its toast.

    Do not donate to nixos donate to gnome or KDE instead who have actual leadership

    • chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I think you are throwing out the child with the bathwater. NixOS is has thousands of contributors from all across the world, including cool people. I don’t think it’s completely hopeless that we can arrive at something resembling a consensus that the community is richer without anduril and fascists. And people are building alternatives and adjacent projects with good community values from the start too.

      I can understand when people don’t want to touch it but I don’t think defeatism is order.

      I don’t care about mainstream and this is definitely no fundraiser.

      • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.netMEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I want to believe but it seems like the community itself is obsessed with meritocracy rather than actual leadership.

        This isn’t the first time this has happened (first as tragedy second as farce). And the fascists really want to hold their grip on power for years on end.

        Tbh NixOS isn’t a monolith and there has always been the running joke of the nix triangle (NixOS is not Nix is not Nixpkgs). Lix exists, nixpkgs exists as a behemoth all to its own and the cppnix detsys nix people can be chuds in their own spaces.

        I just don’t think the community is a safe space at all. One admin level user on discourse literally said its supposed to be an escapist hobby (read: white boys club). I would not recommend any minority navigate this space as it stands now.

        I’m sure you’ve seen my other post on this topic, but if not here: https://hexbear.net/post/6447348