Open Internet Stack Coalition Partners
Paving the way to the Next Generation Internet
Open Internet Stack is a joint not-for-profit effort by a coalition of organisations that supports the development of technology commons as building blocks for an open internet for all. The OIS coalition, led by NLnet foundation, runs multiple grant programmes. These are all the OIS partners across all grant programmes.
APELL — The European Open Source Software Business Association brings national Open Source trade associations together into a European network to provide them with peer support and collective marketing, as well as capacity building and policy support for public affairs, both nationally and on the EU-level.
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is a global network and organisation that strives towards easy and affordable access to a free and open internet to improve the lives of people and create a more just world. The APC network has 62 organisational members and 29 associates active in 74 countries and five continents.
Center for the Cultivation of Technology (CCT) is a charitable non-profit host organization for international Free Software projects with ample experience in mentoring and nurturing early stage projects.
Commons Caretakers BV (CCBV) is a not-for-profit company that provides targeted support to commons efforts - development of open source software, open hardware, open education materials and more. CCBV brings together domain experts, mentors and multidisciplinary thinkers and strategists.
Edsger Institute is a FOSS-oriented not-for-profit specialised in declarative and reproducible hosting stacks and software composition analysis and supply chains. Responsible for the hosting stack developed within NGI Fediversity
Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is an association that builds its work on over 1,500 volunteers and supporters throughout Europe, all dedicated to free and open source software. Facilitates the world’s largest network of over 400 lawyers and technologists with an interest in legal matters around free and open source software and hardware. FSFE maintains the leading Reuse.Software best practices on copyright assignment, and within OIS helps projects to apply these – both with tooling and hands-on work.
GÉANT is the association behind the pan-European data network for the research and education community. Together with European NRENs, GÉANT connects 50 million users in over 10,000 institutions through a high-bandwidth, high-capacity 50,000 km network. In addition GÉANT is a major service provider, offering a variety of e.g. cloud, trust & identity and security services.
HAN University of Applied Sciences, dept. Inclusive Design & Engineering - one of the core competence building centres of accessibility in the Netherlands, with significant in-house expertise on accessibility auditing.
Nationale Beheersorganisatie Internet Providers (NBIP) is a not-for-profit shared service center for ISP's. It offers collective DDoS protection for digital infrastructure providers. Nearly 200 hosting and cloud providers, VoIP providers, internet access providers, and other digital service providers in 10 European countries depend on its facilities.
NixOS Foundation - Foundation supporting development and use of purely functional configuration management tools, in particular NixOS and related projects.
NLnet Foundation - Grantmaking public benefit organisation founded by pioneers of the early European internet.
OpenForum Europe (OFE) is a European open source software and open standard not-for-profit think tank. Its key objective is to contribute to achieve an open and competitive Digital ecosystem in Europe. OFE advises European policy-makers and legislators on the merits of openness in computing and provides technical analysis and explanation.
OW2 is an independent, global, open-source software community that fosters open source projects and actually delivers software. The only such non-profit open source organisation of EU origin and DNA.
Radically Open Security (ROS) is the world’s first not-for-profit computer security consultancy company. Worked for major clients such as Mozilla, Google, the European Commission and Open Technology Fund. Co-operated the security auditing part of the emergency tech review facility for the European Commission on contact tracing and other COVID related technologies.
Tolerant Networks - a Trinity College Dublin campus company focused on robust interoperable communications mechanisms for extreme and unpredictable environments, which delivers its standardisation experience.
Acknowledgements
Open Internet Stack is made possible with financial support from the European Commission, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology. Open Internet Stack receives funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreements No 101299072 (Restack), and 1101298846 (CodeSupply).
