See You At the NGI Forum in November?
NGI Forum: Unlocking The Power of Digital Commons
Come join us at the NGI Forum, the annual get-together of the European Commission's Next Generation Internet initiative. There will be panel discussions, workshops and a chance to meet lots of interesting people who are working towards a better internet. The NGI Forum is free and open to everyone interested in re-imagining and re-engineering the internet. You can attend remotely or physically but you do need to register because capacity is limited.
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NLnet and the NGI Zero ecosystem at the Forum
NLnet and NGI Zero will be well-represented with representatives of funded projects and partner organisations. If you are in Brussels in November come and say hello.
- Philippe Ombredanne is the project lead of two supply chain projects funded by NGI0: Free Software Vulnerability Database and FOSS Code Supply Chain Assurance. He'll be speaking in the plenary session on Open Source Supply Chain.
- Pouhiou Lafon Roudier is the co-director of Framasoft and product owner of PeerTube. He will speak at the Impact Stories panel and workshop.
- Daniel Thompson-Yvetot co-founder of Tauri is part of the NGI Impact Stories.
- Renaud Chaput, also known as renchap on the web, is volunteer CTO at Mastodon gGmbH. He will be speaking in the Decentralised Social Media and Fediverse plenary.
- Alexandre Garel a developer and tech lead working on OpenFoodFacts will be speaking in the the NGI Impact Stories session.
- tobi smethurst is a code writing person working on GoToSocial. They will be speaking at the Decentralised Social Media and Fediverse plenary.
- Koen de Jonge founder of ProcoliX and project lead of Cloud hosting service portability will be speaking in the Decentralised Social Media and Fediverse plenary.
- Melanie Rieback, CEO and co-founder of Radically Open Security will be speaking in the plenary session on Open Source Supply Chain.
- Michiel Leenaars, director of strategy at NLnet Foundation speaks at the Towards Digital Commons plenary session.
- Lucas Lasota, legal programme manager at Free Software Foundation Europe and Tobias Diekershoff, free software enthusiast and system administrator at FSFE will host the workshop: REUSE: Simplifying licensing and copyright information for the Next Generation Internet.
- Hellekin, a free software activist and co-founder of petites singularités will host the workshop Hands-on ActivityPub software workshop for ex-Twitter users.
- Prof. Dr. Michael Granitzer is chair of data science at the University of Passau and coordinating the OpenWebSearch.eu project. He'll be speaking in the Open Web Search and Large Language Models and Beyond plenary.
- Alexander Nussbaumer is a member of the Cognitive and Digital Science Lab of the Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science at Graz University of Technology, Austria. He currently works in the OpenWebSearch.eu project on search applications, human factors and ethical aspects. He'll join the Open Web Search and Large Language Models and Beyond plenary.
