Nix Vegas @ DEF CON 34

Welcome to the Nix Community CFP! Note that we have two types of CFP this year: a standard call for presentations and a call for projects.

We have some space for people to show off their projects instead of giving presentations. If you have a cool Nix related thing you want to demo at con, we have the space (and, perhaps, the infrastructure) for you. Our NOC will connect with you beforehand to see how we can tie your project in.

The application is the same for both, so read on...

Escape Your Fate

We challenge you to submit talks that answer to our take on the DEF CON theme of Agency, Escape Your Fate:

• Starve the beast: How can you use Nix and NixOS to reclaim your digital agency?
• Feed your community: How can we support others doing the same by rolling our own tools and build infrastructure?
• Resources, time, and energy: How can we use Nix to connect ordinary users with the developers who made all the software they depend on?

Note that we have two types of CFP this year: a standard call for presentations and a call for projects.

Don't like speaking? No problem. We have some space for people to show off their projects instead of giving presentations. If you have a cool Nix related thing you want to demo at con, we have the space (and, perhaps, the infrastructure) for you. Our NOC will connect with you beforehand to see how we can tie your project in.

Ideas

Maybe you want to show us how you can get NixOS or Nix running on weird things, both large and small. Maybe NixOS can restore life to hardware that would be thrown away, or potentially be used to solve problems on huge hyperscale systems. If Nix fixed you having free time, we want to hear about it whether you're an embedded developer, Linux hobbyist, or wrangler of clusters.

At the same time, we want to know the limits. Computers aren't always correct, despite Nix claiming to create an island of determinism. Nix doesn't fix hardware vulns (or can it)? Can fetching closures from a binary cache be fingerprinted? Are there side channels to the build sandbox? Can you break the tools that we build things with every day?

These are only some ideas, and we're excited to hear yours. Get inspired and get creative, and maybe look at what we did last year.