Lots of progress in work department lately. Our team at OSSO is growing and we are working on a new website. This time one that should actually be good. We are also preparing to a special open source sub-site where we will list our current open source projects. And as an addition we have a [...]

The first report about the NN-Open “Open-IT” congress last week is available on the website of NOiV (Nederland Open in Verbinding). Read it here in Dutch. Read it here translated to English.

Looking back on the releaseparty last weekend it was quite successful in my opinion, with about ~50 humans, who all sticked around for the whole program. In my opinion this releaseparty had a perfect size. At least a size which stays fun for the organizing ubuntunese in the sense that your not only busy with [...]

NN-Open is currently organizing a congress for policy makers in the (semi)public sector. The congress is at 27 november 2008 in the Martiniplaza in Groningen. The congress is organized in the light of the actionplan “Nederland Open in Verbinding” (The Netherlands Open in Connection) to support the policy makers in adapting open source and open [...]

Op 22 November organiseert NN-Open in samenwerking met Ubuntu Nederland een Ubuntu release party. Dit om de release van Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” te vieren. Programma 14:00 start – install party Altijd al Ubuntu eens willen proberen, maar drempel net iets te hoog? Bij de install party zjin ervaren Ubuntu gebruikers aanwezig om nieuwe gebruikers [...]

Before I forget, tomorrow I will give a talk about open source on NITE (Noordelijk IT Event) in Martiniplaza, Groningen. I will be there the whole day at the NN-Open booth, so feel free to hop by.

On the 10th of October we will have an interesting NN-Open borrel: Hans Bos (National Technology Officer) of Microsoft the Netherlands will give a talk about what Microsoft does with open source and such. He is a sort of ambassador of Microsoft in the Netherlands which has to represent and explain the international policy, developments [...]

On the 25th of April, NN-Open will organize an evening dedicated to hybrid networks or better said to virtualization. 18.00-18.35 Peter Bosman (OSSO) will give a talk about the technical backgrounds of virtualization. With extra attention to the possibilities Open Source software provides in this field. 18.35-18.45: Short break. 18.45-19.15: Sytze van der Meer (municipality [...]

On thursday 28 februari 2008 (starting at 17:00) there will be another NN-Open meeting: Official announcement A short summary in English of this event at Herebinnensingel 2, Groningen, The Netherlands. Esther Hoorn of the University of Groningen will talk about Creative Commons. Last year she received the Victorine van Schaickprijs for the rapport Creative Commons [...]

For the Dutchies: Noord-Nederland Open borrel rondom het thema GIS De nachten lengen, koudefronten stormen aan uit het verre noorden. Kortom, het is weer tijd voor een borrel van de vereniging Noord-Nederland Open. Het thema van deze borrel is GIS, ofwel Geografische Informatie Systemen. Dit thema wordt gestalte gegeven door een (vooralsnog) tweetal presentaties: OpenStreetMap [...]