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The Mozilla-project will organize a number of MozCamps in Europe, the kick-off will be in Utrecht on March 6. Mozcamp is a series of local meetings organised by people that are passionate by the Open Web. The MozCamp-meetings are meant to offer ample room for discussions, hands-on demo's and merging minds to come up with and implement activities to preserve the open and participative character of the internet.
Some members of the Mozilla-project will be present in Utrecht. Amongst them Tristan Nitot. This Frenchman is founder and chair of Mozilla Europe, a not-for-profit organisation resposible for development and marketing of the open source webbrowser Firefox and other Mozilla-related projects. Also Olivier Gambier and Paul Rouget will be present. Gambier is developer of a large number of Firefox-extensions. Paul Rouget is Mozilla Tech Evangelist, having a lot of knowledge of manifold Mozilla-technologies and Webkit.
'MozCamp Utrecht' will be of informal nature and is a broad invitation to participate in the discussions, brainstorm sessions and workshops planned for that day. Everyone is welcome to help the organisation of this Dutch MozCamp. The organizing team can be reached via or register your data on the website below. The following organisations have committed themselves in the organization of 'MozCamp Utrecht': Internet Society Nederland (ISOC), NLUUG, the Nederlandse Linuxgebruikersgroep (NLLGG), programmabureau NOIV and W3C-Benelux.
More information on MozCamp Utrecht can be found on https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozCamp/Utrecht
2009-01-20:
AC-reps, members of W3C, staff and assistants
attended the New Year's reception on Thursday 15
January 2009 at the Felix Meritis building
(Keizersgracht 324, Amsterdam).
Participants were from amongst others:
Internet Society Nederland, RIPE NCC, AMS-ix, Terena, Vereniging
Open Domein, ISPconnect, Dutch Hosting Provider Association,
Accessibility.nl, W3C Benelux, Gridforum.nl, OpenDoc Society,
SURFnet, SELF, CAcert, SIDN, NLnet, NLnet Labs, Oophaga,
HXX/HAR2009, Bits of Freedom a.i., Free Knowledge Institute, and
Vrijschrift.
Talks were given by a.o. the following W3C people
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