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NixOS: Results for the second Nix Steering Committee election 2025 (discourse.nixos.org)
submitted 3 months ago by chgxvjh@hexbear.net to c/libre@hexbear.net
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Elected members

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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.

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[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

K900 is the community moderator the previous SC wanted to purge. Which lead to the walkout of most of the mod team.

Cafkafk is always very outspoken against Anduril.

JulienMalka has stated he would like to work with cafkafk and K900, but I have personally seen them much in the community.

I'm not really familiar with philiptaron.

The Anduril employee tomberek got reelected.

Looks like the NixOS community will continue to be a headache.

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The SC election requires voters to rank all 24 candidates.

Despite landing in ~~3rd place~~ 2nd place (I guess by the logic of the vote counting algorithm), tomberek actually got ranked last place the most of all candidates, by far.

[-] BabyTurtles@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

Arrow's impossibility theorum at work

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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@hexbear.net 2 points 3 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@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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

this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2025
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