Donations
[Various donations]Besides the larger support activities and donations, NLnet also helps-out small projects. Since 2005, they got grouped on this page.
- 2011/09: Sponsoring of the Dutch IPv6 Award 2011 for the best implementation of the IPv6 protocol in the systems of an organisation. In contrast to previous awards this donation will mainly be used for creating an extensive website with substantive practical instructions and manuals (both technical and business process) for implementation of IPv6 in organisations.
- 2011/09: Sponsoring of Svante Schubert's trip to the ODF Plugfest 2011 in Berlin. Svante gave a convincing technical presentation about the change tracking mechanism in ODF.
- 2011/02: Contribution to Big Brother Awards, The Netherlands.
- 2011/02: Travel expenses for Alexander Chemeris, the leader of Fairwaves, to the SDR'11-Europe conference in Brussels in June 22-24
- 2011/02: Sponsoring of the exhibition stand of Crypto Stick at CeBIT, Germany. The German Privacy Foundation's open source product offers easy and high-secure encryption and for authentication in network environments.
- 2010/10: Ben Martin, one of the leading Koffice developers from Australia, was invited to attend the ODF plugfest in Brussels to test work in AbiWord and KOffice on RDF and Track changes with other implementers.
- 2010/08: The Dutch IPv6 Task Force presents an Award to get attention on the early adaptors of IPv6. See the donation description.
- 2010/03: Foundation Randomdata; See the donation description.
- 2010/03: Foundation RaumZeitLabor See the donation description.
- 2009/11/19: NLnet sponsors the travel expenses and conference costs for Thomas Zander to Orvieto, Italy. Thomas is one of the key KDE developers of ODF software. He will visit both the ODF plugfest and OOoCon 2009.
- 2009/10/01: The e-Passport project combined ePassport technology with user-centric identity management systems. This provoked discussion in popular news media, amongst other things about the privacy aspects of this solutions. The resulted in a paper "User-centric identity using ePassports" which will be presented at SecureComm 2009 in Athens, Greece. NLnet covers the travel expenses.
- 2009/06/01: Travel costs of Bert Wijnen to three IETF meetings.
- 2009/06/01: Exhibit of Blender at the annual Siggraph convention in New Orleans USA.
- 2009/06/01: Presentation of MSRP library & SIP IM system at the Terena Network Conference 2009 in Malaga, Spain.
- 2009/02/01: Hacking at Random 2009, the 20th anniversary edition of the Dutch outdoor technology and security conference.
- 2009/02/01: eLiberatica 2009, annual Open Source and Free Software conference for healthy and sustainable FLOSS business models. Bucharest, Romania.
- 2008/12: Congress "Tilting Perspectives on Regulating Technologies", University of Tilburg, The Netherlands.
- 2008/11: ELC Europe 2008 (Embedded Linux Conference), Ede, The Netherlands.
- 2008/11: KDEPIM Quality Sprint 2008-2009, Groningen, The Netherlands.
- 2008/09: Launch of GPLv3 in The Netherlands, Tilburg, The Netherlands
- 2008/08: aKademy 2008, Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium.
- 2008/07/10: European meeting of GNU project maintainers in Bristol, UK.
- 2008/06: Debian Bug Squashing Party, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- 2008/05: NLUUG Spring 2008 conference, Ede, The Netherlands
- 2007/11: NLUUG Autumn 2007 conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2007/11: Harvards World-wide Thematic Conference "Improving access to public services", The Hague, The Netherlands
- 2007/11: GO-FOSS training and support center for NGO and SME sector, Bangladesh.
- 2007/10: Sponsoring CAcert New Board meeting in Germany
- 2006/03/13: NLnet contributed €4000 towards a campaign by dutch Firefox supporters to publish a page-size advertisement for promoting Mozilla Firefox in the free tabloid "Sp!ts". See also the donation description. .pdf (2009kB)
- 2005/12/09: Travel report of Simon Josefsson's visit to IPR-wg on IETF 64. See also the donation description. more >>
- 1998/06: In co-operation with the NLUUG, NLnet sponsored Guido van Rooij's participation in the FreeNIX track of the USENIX Technical Conference in June 1998 in New Orleans, USA. See also the donation description.