NixOS Drama Explained, a Personal Account

Jon Ringer shares his personal account of the NixOS community governance, moderation disputes, and his eventual ban from the project.

I wanted to set the record straight after people are continuing the narrative that myself and others are "Nazi's" that were purged from the NixOS community. Even though many of these events occurred months ago. Now that others seem to be getting caught in the cross-fire, I think it's time to look at the events from a more level temperament and correct the narrative. In this video, I go over my experience as a contributor of 5+ years in the NixOS community up until my eventual ban and the governance events that transpired. Timeline gist: gist.github.com/jonringer/11744f5489aa2b9feb83e6e85d79d5ee 0:00:00 Intro 0:02:42 Early Nix governance, eelco and grahamc 0:06:00 Why I came to Nix 0:09:28 Nov 2022, Call for Sandro to be suspended, denied RM role 0:18:18 RFC 98: "Model and enforce social norms" 0:27:38 Remove nuclear package, maintainer is a transphobe 0:29:29 May 2022 to Nov 2023 I take a hiatus from Nix, burned out by political drama 0:31:40 DetSys and Flakehub drama 0:37:50 NixCon EU and Anduril Sponsorship drama 0:43:44 NixCon EU Gender survey and srid 0:55:22 joepie91 tells me to fuck off, moderation was going to give me a warning 1:03:05 State my displeasure about allowance of verbal abuse, and conditions in which srid was banned 1:10:43 Domen leaves the NixOS foundation 1:14:03 NixCon NA Anduril sponsorship drama 1:24:28 NixCon Na sponsorship fallout 1:31:45 Save-nix-together letter, asking Eelco to resign 1:43:31 My suspension from NixOS 2:01:21 Eelco resigns from foundation board 2:05:14 Constitional Assembly forms to take over governance prcoess 2:13:50 My ban from NixOS 2:21:35 Post ban, "need to do a purge", "Nazi bar" 2:23:19 Where does this leave the Nix Community today?