We are happy to announce Summer of Nix 2026, the sixth edition of our paid contribution program advancing the Next Generation Internet (NGI) and the Nix ecosystem.
From August 3rd to 28th, selected participants will work alongside a dedicated mentor to package and improve free and open source software using Nix and our new [NGI Forge](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-ngi-ngi-forge-0-1-released/77213) platform. The program focuses on three areas: packaging curated NGI software, gathering structured feedback to improve the packaging workflow, and contributing fixes to NGI Forge.
Team structure: 1 mentor and 3–4 participants, each working 100 hours over four weeks.
Compensation: 3 125 EUR for mentors, and 1 875 EUR for participants (EU residents; adjusted by purchasing power parity for other countries).
Application deadline: May 31st, 2026
Selection notification: July 1st, 2026
Full requirements and application instructions are available in the Summer of Nix repository: https://github.com/ngi-nix/summer-of-nix#how-to-apply.
This program is funded by the European Commission's NGI initiative through the NLnet Foundation and the NixOS Foundation.
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We'd like to increase traffic/awareness to this year's Summer of Nix, and we were wondering if the marketing team could give us a hand with this.
Here's the important links:
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Tasks
Banner on homepage until the 2026-05-31.
Social media messages in official channels
Mastodon: https://chaos.social/@nixos_org
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/nixos_org
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nixos-foundation/
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