Lix is developed by a community of passionate users! We have no “benevolent dictator for life”, nor a small foundation board that governs the community. Instead, we rely on teams of our developers and users to carry the burdens of maintenance and governance.
Core Team
The core team are the developers most directly responsible for the Lix project. While the project is in its “soft-release” period, these folks are responsible for project governance. One of their main tasks is to establish a lasting governance model – and other teams to handle things!
Members (in alphabetical order):
hexchen (@hexchen, she/her)
hexchen is working primarily on maintaining and extending the Lix project infrastructure.jade (@lf-, they/them)
jade is working on packaging, testing, infrastructure, tooling, review, stability, and a large amount of the writing in Lix. They recently graduated from a Computer Engineering program at UBC in Canada.Kate Temkin (@ktemkin, she/her [singular] or they/them [plural])
A performance art piece written live by a collective of hardware hackers & low-level engineers. Kate works on Lix as part of a commitment to helping you do cool things, and is seriously considering rewriting every bit of documentation ever to cross paths with Nix.Lily (@lilyinstarlight, she/they)
Lunaphied (@Lunaphied, she/her [singular] or they/them [plural])
Lunaphied spend a disproportionate amount of their time considering how to get FPGAs as far from Earth as possible. When they’re not working on Space Stuff, they consider doing the same for Nix regressions.pennae (aka “eldritch horrors”, they/them)
The shadow at the end of a dark hallway. An ancient, nameless evil. Likes cookiespuck (@puckipedia, she/her [singular] or they/them [plural])
Qyriad (@Qyriad, she/her [singular] or they/them [plural])
Build system experts who delve way, way too deep into tooling – so you don’t have to.raito (@RaitoBezarius, he/him)
Raito is working on infrastructure, review of core parts in Lix and lands smalls contributions when bored. He focus on the ongoing asyncification work and general scalability of Lix for large build farm usecases. Additionally, interested into bridging the Snix project with Lix.Rebecca Turner (@9999years, she/her)
Rebecca is working on the evaluator and error messages.
We all hang around in community spaces, including on Matrix. Feel free to pop into the Lix channels and say hello – we’d love to hear what you think of Lix!
Conflict of Interest Statements
As a community project, it’s important that project decisions are made exclusively for the benefit of the community, and don’t serve any other interests – including personal or corporate gain.
If a team member is unable to do so in any context, they are required to disclose the conflict of interest and to recuse themselves from any leadership decisions affected.
As transparency is important, we’ve included declarations from each core team member regarding any possible conflicts of interest.
hexchen’s employer and its sister companies use Nix/Lix internally and offer Nix-based consulting. hexchen has no stake in the company, does not work in the consulting teams and there is no expectation for her to contribute to Lix on company time. Should a governance decision involving these or any other financial ties arise, hexchen will recuse herself from decision-making.
Jade works for Mercury, a financial services startup that uses Nix to build software. Should a governance decision involving these or any other financial ties arise, Jade will recuse herself from the relevant decision-making.
Kate Temkin is the CEO and one-third owner of Tactile Metrology LLC (TMLLC), a company that currently sponsors Lix development. TMLLC declares that it has no financial stake in the future of Lix or Nix, no ties to the military-industrial-complex, and a strong commitment to avoiding such ties. TMLLC is owned by individuals, and not VC investors. Should any decision arise in which TMLLC’s interests are relevant, Kate will recuse herself from the relevant decision-making.
Lily declare that they have no conflicts of interest regarding the governance of Lix.
Lunaphied declare that they have no conflicts of interest regarding the governance of Lix.
pennae declare that they have no conflicts of interest regarding the governance of Lix.
Puck is working on a NLnet project involving Nix. Should a governance decision involving relevant financial interests arise, she will recuse herself from the relevant decision-making.
Qyriad is a one-third owner of Tactile Metrology LLC (TMLLC), a company that currently sponsors Lix development. TMLLC declares that it has no financial stake in the future of Lix or Nix, no ties to the military-industrial-complex, and a strong commitment to avoiding such ties. TMLLC is owned by individuals, and not VC investors. Should any decision arise in which TMLLC’s interests are relevant,Qyriad will recuse herself from the relevant decision-making.
raitobezarius declares that he’s self-employed in a cooperative, offers Nix-based consulting and training. He currently possess stakes in the cooperative in minority and may be involved in IT strategic decisions. Should a governance decision involving these or any other financial ties arise, raitobezarius will recuse himself from decision-making.
Rebecca Turner works for Mercury, a financial services startup that uses Nix to build software. Should a governance decision involving these or any other financial ties arise, Rebecca will recuse herself from the relevant decision-making.
These declarations were last updated on Jan 7th, 2025, and are believed to be up-to-date to the current date. If the bolded date is more than 56 days in the past, feel free to reach out via our community channels to request these declarations be updated.