Presentations archive

NLnet contributes to an open information society. Therefore we do our best to make our own information available as much as possible. In this section you'll find presentations given by us or others on events we organised or visited.

Presentations

Topic: Forging European Digital Sovereignty through an Open Internet Stack

Event: NGI Forum 2025 Building an open internet stack for European Digital Sovereignty. Brussels, Belgium.
Date: June 19, 2025

• Michiel Leenaars — recording of the panel discussion with Michiel Leenaars, Stuart Mackintosh (Open Digital Consulting Co), Stephanie Schaer (Dinum), Felix Reda (GitHub) and moderated by Jennifer Baker (journalist). Note: This is a recording of the entire day. Move the timer to the 14:42:42 mark for this particular panel discussion.

Topic: Putting Digital Sovereignty into Practice

Event: PublicSpaces Conference 2025: Shaping our Digital Future. At Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Date: June 13, 2025

• Michiel Leenaars — recording of the panel discussion with Michiel Leenaars, Emma Ghariani, Zuzanna Warso and Paris Marx.

Topic: The State of the Internet (in Dutch)

Event: The State of the Internet, lecture was given by Marleen Stikker, co-founder of Waag Futurelab. The lecture was followed by a panel discussion with Tessel Renzenbrink, Bert Hubert, Savriël Dillingh moderated by Dymphie Braun. Live at de Brakke Grond in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Date: May 15, 2025

• Tessel Renzenbrink — recording of the lecture and panel discussion (in Dutch).

Topic: The art of evaluating open source: the views of free software experts (Round table discussion)

Event: OSXP2024, Open Source Experience is the Tech – Usage – Business event dedicated to Open Source IT solutions hosted in Paris, France.
Date: December 4-5, 2024

• Lwenn Bussière — audio recording of the talk in French with transcript in English.

Topic: Financial support for working on KDE

Event: Akademy 2024, the annual KDE Community conference. Live at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany.
Date: September 8, 2024

• Jos van den Oever — slides, recording of the talk

Topic: The Internet is Broken

Event: Presentation at IT-Guild
Date: May 30, 2024

• Ronny Lam — The Internet is Broken (Reveal.js)

Topic: Funding digital commons and technology autonomy

Event: Research to reality
Date: February 6, 2024

• Michiel Leenaars — Funding digital commons and technology autonomy (Reveal.js)

Topic: Running NLnet on NixOS

Event: FOSDEM
Date: February 4, 2024

• Jos van den Oever — Running NLnet on NixOS (PDF)

Topic: Get funded for FOSS development

Event: OpenAlt Konf 2023
Date: Novemmber 11 - 12, 2023

• Gerben van den Broeke — Presentation about applying for NGI Zero funding. (Note that mic did not work the first, audio starts at the 7 minute mark.) (PDF)

Topic: Free silicon and libre toolchains

Event: Update from NGI Zero
Date: July 11, 2023

• Michiel Leenaars — Towards free silicon and libre toolchains (Reveal.js)

Topic: ActivityPub

Event: Overview of ActivityPub projects sponsored by NLnet
Date: May 12, 2023

• Michiel Leenaars — ActivityPub (Reveal.js)

Topic: Digital Commons

Event: OW2conn'23
Date: March 8, 2023

• Michiel Leenaars — From dikes to digital commons: a Dutch take on collective action(ability) (Reveal.js)

Topic: NGI Zero

Event: NLUUG najaarsconferentie 2022
Date: November 29, 2023

• Michiel Leenaars — NLnet and NGI Zero: Working for the internet (Reveal.js)

Topic: The significance of reproducible software in international R&D

Event: Summer of Nix
Date: August 31, 2022

• Michiel Leenaars — The significance of reproducible software in international R&D (Reveal.js)

Topic: Funding opportunities

Event: FSiC2022
Date: July 6, 2022

• Michiel Leenaars — Funding opportunities (Reveal.js)

Topic: Conflict-free Replicated Data Types

Event: NGI webinar on conflict-free replicated data types
Date: March 8, 2022

• George Svarovsky — Collaborative editing of Linked Data based on CRDT (PDF)
• Santiago Bazerque — Cryptographically secure append-only distributed data layer (PDF)

Topic: NGI Libre & Open Silicon/Hardware

Event: Presentation for DG CNECT
Date: January 19, 2022

• Michiel Leenaars — NGI Libre & Open Silicon/Hardware (Reveal.js)

Topic: The Future of OpenPGP

Event: NGI webinar on future of OpenPGP
Date: November 23, 2021

(PDF)

• Neal H. Walfield — An introduction to Sequoia PGP (PDF)
• Uli Fouquet — Add plug & play encryption to customer relationship management system (PDF)
• Yarmo Mackenbach — Decentralized platform to manage online identities verifiably signed with OpenPGP (PDF)

Topic: Open source copyright and license management

Event: NGI webinar on open source copyright and license management
Date: November 11, 2021

• Short introductions from NGI Zero (Joost Agterhoek) (PDF), NGI TETRA and NGI Pointer (Mirko Presser) (PDF)
• Onur Emul - A brief introduction on the topic of intellectual property (IP) management (PDF)
• Armijn Hemel - A presentation on defensive publication approaches (PDF) and an example of a defensive publication (PDF)
• Gabriel Ku Wei Bin - Discussing the basics of open source software licensing (PDF)
• Michiel Leenaars - Legal infrastructure for open source projects (PDF)

Topic: Semantic web and metadata solutions

Event: Next Generation Internet webinar on Linked Data
Date: June 21, 2021

• Jos van den Oever on NLnet, NGI Zero and Linked Data (PDF)
• pukkamustard on openEngiadina and DREAM (PDF)
• George Svarovsky on m-ld (PDF)
• Niall McCarthy on Corteza (PDF)
• Aurelie Herbelot on PeARS (PDF)
• Tom Haegemans on Solid-Shape (PDF)
• Ben de Meester on PROV4ITDATA (PDF)
• Luca de Roffia on DASI Breaker (PDF)
• Loïc Dachary on Fedeproxy (prerecorded presentation) (PDF)

Topic: The Future of European Open Hardware

Event: Online session on future of European open hardware
Date: May 7, 2021

• Thomas Kramer on LibrEDA (PDF)
• Staf Verhaegen on Chips4Makers ASICS (PDF)
• David Lanzendoerfer on LibreSilicon (PDF)
• Xianjun Jiao on Openwifi (PDF)
• Charles Papon on SpinalHDL, VexRiscv and SaxonSoc (PDF)