Well, Nix is a much wider ecosystem than "just" NixOS - the package manager has many other applications, too (for example I gave a talk about Nixery this year).

Well, Nix is a much wider ecosystem than "just" NixOS - the package manager has many other applications, too (for example I gave a talk about Nixery this year). From that perspective I don't find it so surprising that there's a conference about it :) > You don't need to be deeply involved in the project to benefit from a conference Agree! Many conferences these days will have tracks focused on "beginners", too (NixCon did this year).