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The Team 2024-04-27 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, she/her)
    hexchen is working primarily on mantaining and extending the Lix project infrastructure.

  • Irenes (@IreneKnapp, they/them)

  • 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 "eldrich horrors", they/them)

  • puck (@puckipedia, she/her)

  • 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/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, she/her)


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 TODO

  • Irenes TODO

  • jade TODO

  • 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 TODO

  • puck TODO

  • 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 TODO

  • wiggles TODO


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 to request these declarations be updated.