Nix Camp

Nix Camp 2026 is On!

Read the NixOS Discourse Announcement here!
You can join our Matrix Space by clicking here.

Self-Hosting Our Food

This year, we've decided to move away from proprietary catering solutions. We are self-hosting our food. This means there is no professional chef. We are all responsible for the kitchen, and the procurement of ingredients!

To avoid conflicts in the kitchen and ensure high availability of dinner, we strongly encourage (require) that you submit your recipes as code using Cooklang.

Please push your recipes to the official repository: codeberg.org/nix-camp/nix-camp-recipes

Tickets/Booking

The Nix Camp 2026 dates are October 1st until October 7th. The dates are intentionally a few days after NixCon 2026, in order to give people some rest and time to recover before attending. This year, Nix Camp will consist of two parts and span two venues.

Ticket option 1 is priced at £150 per person. This covers attendance, but not accomodation.

Ticket option 2 is priced at £250 per person This covers attendance, but also accomodation at the AstralShip Venue.

Both ticket options expect attendees to find their own accomodation whilst in Liverpool/Birkenhead. If you can't make it to the full 7 days, visitors are welcome, just drop in and contribute what you can!

Nix Camp is proudly using the NixOS module for pretix with stripe integration to manage ticketing this year, as well as the simple-nixos-mailserver for mail services:

services.pretix.enable = true

mailserver.enable = true

Venue & Accommodation

Part 1 of Nix.Camp 2026 will be hosted at BirkenHack in Birkenhead, very close to Liverpool, 1 - 3 Oct

Part 2 of Nix.Camp 2026 will be hosted at Astralship in Deiniolen, Wales, 4th October - 7th October

We leave for and sleep in the Astralship on the 4th of October, the event is considered over on the 7th of October

Part 1

First, 3 days of intense hacking at BirkenHack in Birkenhead, Hamilton Square, with lots of ethernet. Where attendees are expected to find their own accomodation in Birkenhead, or Liverpool which is close by. Trains to and from Liverpool are frequent and available until 11:40PM, and there are plenty of things to see on the Wirral Peninsula. We will visit DoES Liverpool (another local co-working/hackspace), Hilbre Island and Birkenhead Park.

Brunswick Court, Price Street, Birkenhead, Hamilton Square CH41 6LW

Hamilton Square is a town square in Birkenhead, Wirral, England. The Georgian square, which was designed by Edinburgh architect James Gillespie Graham, has the most Grade I listed buildings outside London (after Trafalgar Square). It is named after the family of the wife of Scottish shipbuilder William Laird.

Part 2

Secondly, we will spend 4 days at the Astral Ship where 7 rooms are available for on-site accomodation, and are covered by the more expensive ticket option, which is limited in supply. We will head for the Astral Ship venue on the 30th, and sleep there that night, in case you have booked the accomodation ticket option.

Accommodation will be provided by the Astralship, a hackspace that promotes creativity, collaboration and innovation located in Deiniolen, Wales. Festri Cefn Y Waun, Astral Road, Deiniolen, Caernarfon LL55 3NB

The Astralship is based in a 200 year old chapel, where the mountains of Snowdonia meet the sea. The chapel dates from 1838 and is located in an unbelievably beautiful area, with endless mountains, beaches and quarries to explore. It's the perfect place to be if you like hiking, climbing and wild swimming.

There are many Airbnb and hotel offerings available in the surrounding area if this arrangement does not suit you, or full accomodation tickets are out of stock.

Food will still be provided to those who choose not to stay overnight at the venue, as this cost is included in the ticket price.