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31 changes: 20 additions & 11 deletions community/2025/survey.yaml
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- Information security / cybersecurity (client-facing)
- Blockchain / cryptocurrency / web3
- Other
- prompt: Can we reach out to you for upcoming sponsorship efforts?
- prompt: Can we reach out to you about sponsoring the project in the future?
type: single
choices:
- Yes
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- prompt: If you use NixOS stable, how was your experience upgrading to the new stable version (25.05)?
type: single
choices:
- 1 - I had severe issues and could not make the upgrade.
- 2 - I had severe issues but figured it out after some time.
- 3 - I had moderate issues.
- 4 - I had minor issues.
- 5 - I had no issues.
- I had severe issues and could not make the upgrade.
- I had severe issues but figured it out after some time.
- I had moderate issues.
- I had minor issues.
- I had no issues.
- I have not upgraded.
- I did not know there was a new stable release.
- prompt: Which of these best describe your involvement with the Nix ecosystem?
type: multiple
choices:
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- I teach others about Nix/Nixpkgs/NixOS.
- I understand a portion of the ecosystem enough to make architectural choices (e.g. one of the language frameworks, stdenv, modules, Nix experimental features, etc).
- I have read some portion of the Nix source code and understand it.
- I completely understand all Nix error messages.
- I completely understand all Nix error messages.
- prompt: >
Did you hear about Nix or NixOS first?
If you heard about both at the same time, select which one first made you interested in the Nix ecosystem.
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- I used another package manager (e.g. Homebrew, APT)
- I built Nix from source
- Other
- prompt: Which of these do you use?
type: multiple
- Nix
- Tvix
- Lix
- Determinate Nix
- Snix
- None
- prompt: On what types of systems or infrastructure do you use Nix?
type: multiple
choices:
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choices:
- I don't use Nix
- NixOS configurations
- Other
# Taken from Stack Overflow survey, ordered alphabetically.
- APL
- Ada
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- Donor perks (e.g. recognition on website, Discourse badges, swag, exclusive access)
- The ability to deduct donations from tax
- More options for ear-marking donations
- Official support or services
- A maintained Long-Term-Support release
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@djacu Just noticed that these stayed in the survey, too late to change now I guess

- prompt: Which areas should the NixOS Foundation prioritise funds for?
type: multiple
- prompt: Which areas should the NixOS Foundation prioritise excess funds for?
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I think when we reviewed this initially we wanted to add "scarcity" to improve the quality of the answers

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- prompt: Which areas should the NixOS Foundation prioritise excess funds for?
- prompt: Which five areas should the NixOS Foundation prioritise excess funds for?

Open to other ideas or leaving as is.

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The foundation has asked that we leave the wording as it was originally submitted. @infinisil it's your call

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How about we make this a ranking instead. Don't think we need to limit the number then, and we get more usable data.

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Sounds good. I'll update the PR and get this into the limesurvey today.

type: ranking
choices:
- Governance (e.g. policies, guidelines, processes)
- Community health (e.g. conflict resolution, moderation)
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