[Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

Tomasz Czyż tomasz.czyz at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 17:36:50 CET 2015


https://www.bountysource.com/search?query=nixos - maybe this is good
enough, no? Just needs a little more advertisement :-)

2015-12-07 16:33 GMT+00:00 Thomas Hunger <tehunger at gmail.com>:

> There's the foundation https://nixos.org/nixos/foundation.html which
> would be a great structure to collect and direct money.
>
> Eelco - I'm not sure where to look so I couldn't find anything about the
> foundation's activity. Do you keep meeting notes somewhere online?
>
> best,
> Tom
>
>
>
> On 7 December 2015 at 15:10, Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been a Nix/NixOS user for a few years now. While some parts of
>> NixOS are moving forward rather quickly (awesome!), some of the Nix
>> tooling is improving painfully slow (IMHO). I was wondering if any
>> core devs have considered starting a fundraiser to possibly work
>> full-time on some issues?
>>
>> Some things I'd really like to see happen (and support financially):
>>
>> * Better UI. I think there are many GitHub issues about this already,
>> but I really like what's being pointed out here:
>> https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/684#issuecomment-154502504.
>>
>> * Better support for Nix as a 3rd party package solution. Be able to
>> build a distro agnostic package on a Nix system and deploy it
>> (trivially) to other systems (that may not even have Nix).
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bjørn Forsman
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