Community workshops

We organise community workshops with the aim of bringing people with common interests together. Each workshop focuses on a specific theme or field. The aim is to weave communities and people together who are working on or interested in the same theme. The format is a 2.5 hour workshop in which we will explore shared challenges and questions, exchanging ideas, and aligning on potential concrete next steps.
We'll have workshops on the following topics: Search, Modern Publishing, Distributed, Open Source Chip Design, Web Browsers and Large Language Models.

Where & when

Sessions take place online on the first and third Monday of the month at 14.00 CEST (Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome). With the acception of the Workshop on Search which will take place Wednesday 17 September at 10.00 CEST.
Sessions will be hosted on a BigBlueButton platform. We'll publish the link to the Big Blue Button platform here closer to the date.

How to join

Sign up: Each workshop has its own unique sign-up form. You can find them below.
If you plan on attending do sign up. We use the input to check if there is enough interest to go ahead. (Feel free to use a throw-away mail address).

Who is invited and what is the goal

With these community workshops we aim to bring together people who are working on similar topics and problems. The goal is to foster collaboration and create communities of practice. We are directly inviting participants in the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative but anyone who is interested is welcome. Although we hope people will be able to build meaningful relationships, joining a workshop does not commit you to anything, of course.

The workshops are organized by NLnet on behalf of NGI Zero in collaboration with our sister NGI programme NGI Search

Community workshops

Search

Date: Wednesday September 17, 2025
Time: 10.00 - 12.30 CEST
Location: Big Blue Button room https://bbb-cluster01.yourownnet.cloud/rooms/yu8-dik-acf-bve/join
Sign up: Cryptpad form. If you'd like to join, do sign-up so we know there is enough interest to go ahead.

This workshop welcomes NGI beneficiaries, Open Web Search enthusiasts and anyone interested in joining the innovative open source communities.

Modern Publishing

Date: Monday, October 6, 2025
Time: 14.00 - 16.30 CEST
Location: Online, we'll publish the link to the BigBlueButton platform here closer to the date.
Sign up: Cryptpad form. If you'd like to join, do sign-up so we know there is enough interest to go ahead.

For this workshop we invite people interested in the future of printing and publishing (book publishing, Web-to-Print, etc). The workshop facilitates networking to bring like-minded people together and identify shared challenges, exhange ideas and potential concrete next steps.

Peer-to-peer / Distributed

Date: Monday, October 20, 2025
Time: 14.00 - 16.30 CEST
Location: Online, we'll publish the link to the BigBlueButton platform here closer to the date.
Sign up: Cryptpad form. If you'd like to join, do sign-up so we know there is enough interest to go ahead.

Open Source Chip Design

Date: Monday, November 3, 2025
Time: 14.00 - 16.30 CEST
Location: Online, we'll publish the link to the BigBlueButton platform here closer to the date.
Sign up: Cryptpad form. If you'd like to join, do sign-up so we know there is enough interest to go ahead.

Web Browsers

Date: Monday, November 17, 2025
Time: 14.00 - 16.30 CEST
Location: Online, we'll publish the link to the BigBlueButton platform here closer to the date.
Sign up: Cryptpad form. If you'd like to join, do sign-up so we know there is enough interest to go ahead.

Large Language Models

Date: Monday, December 1, 2025
Time: 14.00 - 16.30 CEST
Location: Online, we'll publish the link to the BigBlueButton platform here closer to the date.
Sign up: Cryptpad form. If you'd like to join, do sign-up so we know there is enough interest to go ahead.