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NLnet Office Hour: monthly recurring Q&A

The NLnet Office Hour is a recurring monthly event where you can ask questions and we try to answer them.

  • Time: Every last Wednesday of the month, 16.00 hour CE(S)T (Amsterdam, Brussels time)
  • Place: NLnet Office Hour Matrix Room
The chat is hosted by Marc and Tessel, and possibly other people from NLnet and/or the NGI Zero consortium will join too.

How it works

  • Questions are collected on the Etherpad [1] in the Matrix room. (Please make sure you add your question at the bottom of the list so we don't accidentally skip questions.)
  • You can already place questions on the pad ahead of the office hour.
  • During the Office Hour the questions are pasted into the chat and answered one by one. NLnet people may already be answering the questions in the pad in order to speed things up. But each question will eventually be pasted in the chat and that is also the best place to post follow-up questions.
Note that we will not be pre-reviewing applications. Assessing specific proposals is what the application process is for and we won't review out of band. So, you can ask questions like: 'Do you sponsor events?'. But not: 'Would you sponsor an in-person event about the value of FOSS in education, held in Denmark next autumn for about €5.000?'.

[1] You can find the Etherpad in the Office Hour Matrix room by clicking the Room info 'i' icon > Extensions > Etherpad. See the screenshot below.

screenshot of the top of the Matrix room showing an 'i' icon