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title:  "The Team"
description: ""
date: "2024-04-27"
author: "Lix Team"
---

**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](https://github.com/hexchen), she/her)**  
  hexchen is working primarily on mantaining and extending the Lix project infrastructure.

- **Irenes ([@IreneKnapp](https://github.com/IreneKnapp), they/them)**
  Irenes are an outside-context problem. They are fond of cats.

- **jade ([@lf-](https://github.com/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](https://github.com/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](https://github.com/lilyinstarlight), she/they)**

- **Lunaphied ([@Lunaphied](https://github.com/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 "eldrich horrors", they/them)**

- **puck ([@puckipedia](https://github.com/puckipedia), she/her)**

- **Qyriad ([@Qyriad](https://github.com/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](https://github.com/RaitoBezarius), he/they)**  
  Raito is working on nixpkgs packaging, infrastructure, and review in Lix. 
  They are a Tvix developer focusing on the store and the evaluator.

- **wiggles ([@9999years](https://github.com/9999years), she/her)**

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We all hang around in [community spaces](/community), 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** <mark>TODO</mark>

- **Irenes** <mark>TODO</mark>

- **jade** <mark>TODO</mark>

- **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. Kate accordingly declares she has **no conflicts of interest**
  regarding governance of Lix.

- **Lunaphied** declare that they have **no conflicts of interest** regarding the governance of Lix.

- **pennae** <mark>TODO</mark>

- **puck** <mark>TODO</mark>

- **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. Qyriad accordingly declares she has **no conflicts of interest**
  regarding governance of Lix.

- **raito** <mark>TODO</mark>

- **wiggles** <mark>TODO</mark>

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These declarations were last updated on **April 27th, 2024**, and are believed to be up-to-date to the current date. 
If the bolded date is more than 28 days in the past, feel free to reach out via our 
[community channels](/community) to request these declarations be updated.