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Landscape of Free Software in the Netherlands

This page is in English on purpose, to enable as many people to read it. Translations are welcome and can be offered on a /<language> page, like /nl /de /fr.

This page intends to provide a nearly complete picture of organizations that support Free Software, support a related cause or are active in IT in general.

Table of contents:

Civil rights organizations

Digital rights

Bits of Freedom

• https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/

• 🏢 Amsterdam
• 📅 Big Brother Awards (yearly, November)
  • 🏆 Big Brother Award
• 🤝 associated with EDRi
• 👤 Evelyn Austin
• 👤 Rejo Zenger
• 👤 Erik de Zwart (previous)

Waag Society

• https://waag.org/

• 🏢 Amsterdam
• 👤 Marleen Stikker

Privacy

Privacy First

• https://www.privacyfirst.nl/

Vrijschrift

• https://www.vrijschrift.org/

• 🏢 Workum

Information society

ECP

• Identifies as a ‘platform’ facilitating discussion through events

• https://ecp.nl/

• 🏢 Leidschendam
• Supports multiple coalitions and events
• 📅 ECP jaarcongres (yearly, November)
• Nationale Privacy Conferentie
  • 📅 yearly, January
  • 🏢 The Hague
  • 🏆 Dutch Privacy Awards
• Safer internet day (European day)

  • https://saferinternetcentre.nl/saferinternetday/

  • 📅 yearly, 11 February
  • Focus on children

Netwerk Mediawijsheid

• Teach children about media

• https://www.mediawijzer.net/

Safety Internet Centre (SIC)

• https://saferinternetcentre.nl/

• Events and information
• Focus on children

Open Domein

• Organization around the original ‘de Digitale Stad Amsterdam (DDS)’

• https://opendomein.nl/

Hack in the Class

• https://hackintheclass.nl/

• 🏢 Amersfoort

Hacker Hotel

• https://hackerhotel.nl/

• 🏢 Garderen
• 📅 February 2020

Free Knowledge Institute

• http://freeknowledge.eu/

• http://wiki.freeknowledge.eu/index.php/Main_Page

Open Nederland

• https://www.opennederland.nl/

• 🤝 Part of International Creative Commons network https://network.creativecommons.org/

• 🤝 Supporter of Creative Commons Nederland
• 👤 Hessel van Oorschot (Voorzitter)
• 👤 Sebastiaan ter Burg (Secretaris)
• 👤 Ton Zijlstra (Penningmeester)
• 👤 Maarten Zeinstra (Vice voorzitter, algemeen bestuurslid)
• 👤 Wietske van den Heuvel (Algemeen bestuurslid)
• 👤 Johan Groenen (Algemeen bestuurslid)

Creative Commons Nederland

• https://creativecommons.nl/

• 🤝 Supported by Open Nederland
• 👤 Sebastiaan ter Burg (Chapter lead)
• 👤 Hessel van Oorschot (Global Council Representative)

Online security

Expertisecentrum Online Kindermisbruik (EOKM)

• Centre of expertise of online child abuse

• https://www.eokm.nl/

Accessibility

Accessibility

• https://www.accessibility.nl/

• 🏢 Utrecht

Drempelvrij

• https://www.drempelvrij.nl/

• 🏢 Hilversum
• Website accessibility
• Guidelines

Democracy

Netwerk Democratie

• https://netdem.nl/

• 🏢 Amsterdam

Open State Foundation

• https://openstate.eu/nl/

• 🏢 Amsterdam

• 🗫 Slack https://slack.hackdeoverheid.nl/

• 📅 Multiple hackathons each year

  • https://www.hackdeoverheid.nl/

  • 📅 Regular meetups

Public Code

Code for NL

• https://www.codefor.nl/

• 🏢 Amsterdam
• 📅 Meetups
• 🗫 Slack (subscribe from main website)

• 🤝 associated with Code for All https://codeforall.org/

• 🤝 partner of Waag Society

Foundation for Public Code

• https://publiccode.net/

• 🏢 Amsterdam
• 👤 Boris van Hoytema
• Started in 2019
• Organization that governmental organizations can join to collaborate on common resources like best practices.
• Work

  • Repo metadata standard: https://github.com/publiccodenet/publiccode.yml

    • Heavily used in Italy

  • Standard for Public Code: guidelines for developing free software https://standard.publiccode.net/

• 🌍 Strong base in NL, especially Amsterdam, but has international (Europe) focus

Stichting Open Source & Overheid

• Foundation Open Source & Government

• https://www.oseno.nl/

• 2016 T-Dose context presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goPK9vi4e6w

• Started in 2015
• Helping government to
• Working in a consultancy manner
• 🏢 Amsterdam
• 👤 Lennart Huizing
• 👤 Ahmed Aarad
• 👤 Lex Slaghuis
• 👤 Astrid Oosenbrug

Vereniging Open Source Nederland

• https://www.vosn.nl/

• 🏢 Utrecht
• Formally a foundation (contrary to the name)

• Website history: https://web.archive.org/web/20010302044028/http://vereniging.opensource.nl/

• Founded in 1992 but website seems to have broken in 2006 and be down since 2007
• Organizations can join
• Focus on government and education
• Took a stance on Software patents in 2001
• 👤 Joost Helberg
• 👤 Ron Arts
• 👤 Jeroen Baten
• 👤 Luuk van Dijk
• 👤 Martijn Smit
• 👤 (Barbara Brouwer)
• 👤 (Joep van Genugten)
• 👤 (Jeroen Nijhof)

Open Source bij de Overheid .nl

• http://opensourcebijdeoverheid.nl/

• Website that collects information about free software at the Dutch government and possible software solutions

• The historic webpages cover more about historic adoption: https://web.archive.org/web/20070121172928/http://www.opensourcebijdeoverheid.nl/index.php

Funding

Commons Caretakers

• https://commonscaretakers.com/

• 🏢 Amsterdam

Broader issues in society

Kennisland

• https://www.kl.nl/

• Organization to help various societal aspects
• 🏢 Amsterdam

Kafkabrigade

• http://kafkabrigade.nl/

• Focused on bureaucratic disfunctional government
• Has worked in 2021 on guidance for procurement of open source software for government
• 👤 Arjan Widlak

Consumentenbond

• https://www.consumentenbond.nl/

• Consumer rights organization
• 🏢 Den Haag

• Have written about router freedom: https://www.consumentenbond.nl/internet/vrije-modemkeuze and in the past also took stance about software updates on devices

• 🤝 associated with https://www.beuc.eu/

Open content creators

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap community (informal)

• Netherlands Forum

• Talk-NL mailinglist

• Have managed to collaborate with the Dutch Land Registry 'Kadaster' to import streets and buildings into OpenStreetMap.

• 🗫 OpenStreetMap Netherlands on Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/!wSWPWvcmGloLtbJwuI:matrix.org?via=jngle.re&via=t2bot.io&via=matrix.org

• 📅 Monthly online meetups on Saturday

OSGeo

• https://osgeo.nl/

• Local Chapter of the global Open Source Geospatial Foundation OSGeo.org

• Facilitates Geo events in the Netherlands

• Meetup page for events: https://www.meetup.com/OSGeoNL

• 🗫 IRC #osgeonl on Freenode
• 👤 Just van den Broecke
• 📅 new years drink

Tribe of Noise

• https://www.tribeofnoise.com

• Commercializing Creative Commons music
• 🏢 Amsterdam

Hacker Spaces

Spaces

ACKSpace

• https://www.ackspace.nl/

• 🏢 Heerlen

Hack42

• https://hack42.nl/

• 🏢 Arnhem
• 👤 Jos Weyers
• 👤 Arjen Kamphuis (✝)

020techmakerhub.nl

• https://www.meetup.com/nl-NL/Amsterdam-IoT-Community/

• 🏢 Amsterdam

Camps

Eth-0

• Hacker camp

• https://www.eth-0.nl

IFCAT Foundation (OHM2013, SHA2017 hacker camp)

• https://www.ifcat.org/

• Hacker camp every 4 years
• 🏢 Maasland
• 📅 summer every 4 years (2013, 2017, 2021 ? )

Open Standards

Open Doc Society

• For Open Standards

• http://www.opendocsociety.org/

• 🏢 Amsterdam

W3C Benelux

• https://www.w3c.nl/

Free Software

T-Dose

• https://t-dose.org/

• Free and yearly event held in The Netherlands to promote use and development of Open Source Software
• Location and date have been been shifting in recent years
• 📅 typically yearly
• 🏢 Eindhoven and surroundings

Open Source Event Tilburg

• One day conference

• http://linuxeducatie.nl/open-source/

• 📅 each year, date uncertain
• 🏢 Tilburg public library

NLLGG

• https://nllgg.nl/

• NL Linux User Group
• 🏢 Utrecht
• 📅 Every 2 months
  • Special attention to Free Software Day

Software development

Notable applications

Notable free software in use in the Netherlands

The Foundation for Public Code has a notable role in helping public bodies open source their codebases and make it a success.

OpenZaak

• https://openzaak.org/

• Free Software case management system for municipalities (for example to handle permit requests)
• Very much a community effort with multiple developer organizations.

Signalen

• Free Software for handling public space notifications like noise complaints

• https://github.com/Amsterdam/signals

vrijBRP

• Free Software citizen administration system, for municipalities
• Originally by Procura

• https://vrijbrp.nl/

• Source code: https://github.com/vrijBRP

Open Zaak

Associations

Fronteers

• Professional organization for front end developers

• https://fronteers.nl/

• 🏢 Hilversum

Nederland ICT

• Has the Young ICT Professionals (YIP)-network
• Association for IT companies
• Previous names: ICT~Office, FENIT
  • Standard purchase conditions were called FENIT-voorwaarden

Dutch Digital Agencies

• https://dutchdigitalagencies.com/

• events, information
• Branchevereniging. Also known as ‘Platform voor Internet Bureaus Nederland’
• 🏢 Amsterdam

Software Development Network

• https://www.sdn.nl/

• events, information, magazine
• Main focus seems to be .NET related tooling
• 🏢 Winterswijk

Future Tech NL

• https://futuretech.nl/

• mainly an event
• Mainly targetting Microsoft technology
• 🏢 Utrecht
• 📅 yearly, March

NLJUG

• Dutch Java User Group

• https://nljug.org/

• events, information, magazine
• 🏢 Haarlem

AmsterdamJUG

• Amsterdam Java User Group

• https://www.meetup.com/nl-NL/Amsterdam-Java-User-Group/

Teqnation

• https://teqnation.com/

• events, information
• Networking platform for developers
• 🏢 Haarlem
• 📅 Teqnation conference

  • https://conference.teqnation.com/

  • yearly, May

Coffee Code Chat

• https://www.meetup.com/nl-NL/Coffee-Code-and-Chat/

• 🏢 Utrecht

Delft Developers & Designers

• https://www.meetup.com/nl-NL/Delft-Developers-Designers/

• 🏢 Delft

Dotned

• .NET user group

• https://www.dotned.nl/

Dutch Android User Group

• http://www.meetup.com/dutch-aug/

Flock

• Software engineering community

• https://www.flock.community/

IT Next

• https://www.meetup.com/nl-NL/ITNEXT/

• 🏢 Amsterdam

Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging van Informatieprofessionals (KNVI)

• https://www.knvi.nl/

• Association for engineers
• Have published an open letter regarding the Corona tracing app including the requirement that the app should be published as free software.

IOT SensmakersAMS

• https://www.meetup.com/nl-NL/sensemakersams/

• 🏢 Amsterdam

Utrecht Java User Group

• https://www.meetup.com/nl-NL/Utrecht-Java-User-Group/

• 🏢 Utrecht

Foundations

Commons Conservancy

• https://commonsconservancy.org/

• 🏢 Amsterdam

Dutch Clojure Days

• https://clojuredays.org/

• 🏢 Amsterdam
• 📅 yearly, April

Youth

Coder Dojo

• https://coderdojo.nl/

• Mainly at public libraries

Educode.nl

• https://www.educode.nl/

• Similar in concept to https://educode.org/ but perhaps not directly tied to it

• Started in 2018
• Set up as a business to provide training material
• 🏢 Utrecht

CodeUur

• https://futurenl.org/codeuur/

• Literally 'code hour'
• Initiative by FutureNL
• Facilitates an hour of coding education at primary school.
• Volunteers provide the education at a nearby school, having participated in an online instruction beforehand.

FutureNL.org

• https://futurenl.org/

• Organization to provide programming education to teachers, primary schools and secundary schools.
• 🏢 Den Haag
• 👤 Steven Schuurman
• 👤 Ronilla Snellen

Companies

Datraverse

• https://www.datraverse.com/

• Focus on free software and healthy ecosystem

Dyne

• https://www.dyne.org/

• 🏢 Amsterdam
• Focus on free software solutions
• 👤 Jaromil

NOU&OFF

• Software development, consultancy and training for LibreOffice

• http://www.nouenoff.nl/

• Started 2004
• 🏢 Arnhem
• 👤 Cor Nouws
• 👤 Barend Jonker

Squirrel consultancy

• https://www.squirrel.nl/

• 👤 Johan Vromans

• Developer of FOSS Eekboek accounting software https://www.eekboek.nl/

• Has retired in 2019

Paul van der Vlis

• https://vandervlis.nl/

• Provides consultancy and Libreboot computers
• 👤 Paul van der Vlis
• 🏢 Groningen

Sue (previously Snow)

• https://sue.nl/

• Large consultancy organization with a focus on open source software
• 📅 Hosts montly events

Blender Foundation

• Developing Blender software
• Making 3d artwork like games and movies

• https://www.blender.org/

• 🏢 Amsterdam
• 👤 Ton Roosendaal
• FSFE has helped in releasing the original code under a Free Software license

AT Computing

• https://www.atcomputing.nl/

• Focus on Linux training, contracting and support
• Part of Vijfhart
• 🏢 Velp

Open Dental Benelux

• http://www.opendental.eu/

• BeNeLux provider for installation and support for open source dental software originating from the US https://www.opendental.com/

• 👤 Daniel S. Joffe

Kopano

• Groupware
• Successor of Zarafa since 2017
• Company around an AGPL software product

• https://kopano.com/

• 🏢 Delft

Libreplan

• Originally developed for the Spain public sector, the main development and support is now in the Netherlands.

• http://www.libreplan.org/ (software)

• https://libreplan-enterprise.com/ (company)

• 🏢 Culemborg
• Free Software planning software
• 👤 Jeroen Baten (since 2013)

Startup accelerators

Rockstart

• https://www.rockstart.com/

• 🏢 Amsterdam

Clinic

• 'Law Incubator'

• https://clinic.nl/

• Free advise for startups on laws about media, intellectual property and IT
• Support coming from Law students

Hardware

Fairphone

• https://www.fairphone.com/

• Ethical phone: easy to repare option to flash your own OS
• Initiative started from de Waag Society
• 🏢 Amsterdam

Security

Dcypher

• https://www.dcypher.nl/

• 📅 Dcypher symposium (yearly, October)

HoneyNed (Dutch HoneyNet chapter)

• https://www.honeyned.nl/

National Cyber Security Center

One Conference

• 🏢 The Hague
• 📅 Yearly, September

Owasp chapter Netherlands

• https://owasp.org/www-chapter-netherlands/

Privacy by Design Foundation

• Providing IRMA solution for secure but privacy friendly identity management

• https://privacybydesign.foundation/

• 🏢 Nijmegen

• 📅 Regular meetups, typically in Amsterdam or Utrecht https://privacybydesign.foundation/meetings/

• 🗫 Slack, subscribe
• Originated from the Radboud University Nijmegen
• Collaboration with SIDN

Security in Times of Surveillance (event)

• https://www.win.tue.nl/eipsi/surveillance.html

• 🏢 Eindhoven University
• 📅 yearly, June

Media

Tweakers.net

• https://tweakers.net/

BNR

• Podcast 'de Technoloog'

  • https://www.bnr.nl/podcast/de-technoloog

  • About technological development. Has offerd a podium for privacy and security topics.
• Podcast 'Onderzoeksraad der dingen'

  • https://www.bnr.nl/podcast/onderzoeksraad-der-dingen

  • 👤 Brenno de Winter

NOS

• National broadcasting foundation

• https://nos.nl/

• 👤 Joost Schellevis

Computable.nl

• https://www.computable.nl/

• 🏆 Computable Awards 2020

Computer Totaal

Linux Magazine NL

• http://www.linuxmag.nl/

• Outspoken for free software, also offering a podium for related opinions, businesses and organizations including FSFE.

PCM

• http://www.pcmweb.nl/

Hosting

Associations

NL Unix User Group (NLUUG)

• Professional user group, focussed around IT infrastructure

• https://www.nluug.nl/

• 🏢 Utrecht
• 📅 twice a year: May, November

Dutch Datacenter Association

• https://www.dutchdatacenters.nl/

• 🏢 Amsterdam

Dutch Hosting Provider Association

• https://www.dhpa.nl/

• 🏢 Amsterdam

Vereniging van Registrars

• https://www.verenigingvanregistrars.nl/

• Assocation of registrars
• 🏢 Houten

Nationale Beheersorganisatie Internet Providers

• https://www.nbip.nl/

• Association of internet providers
• 🏢 Ede
• Helps facilitate the legally required eavesdropping ('tapdienst')

Companies

TransIP

• https://www.transip.nl/

• Professional hosting provider, also used by enterprises. Made itself a name with Bladeserver based VPS with SSD storage.

• Fused with Combell (Belgium) into team.blue https://www.cloudvps.nl/nieuws/combell-en-transip-bundelen-krachten-tot-teamblue/

• 👤 Anscilla van de Leest (working in Marketing)
• 🏢 Leiden

GreenHost

• Hosting provider supportive of digital rights movement

• https://greenhost.nl/

• 🏢 Amsterdam

CloudVPS

• https://www.cloudvps.nl/

• Part of Team.blue, previously part of TransIP, and Spango Internet before that.

• Professional hosting provider, enabled anyone to use their OpenStack offering

• Aquired by TransIP early 2019 https://www.cloudvps.nl/nieuws/transip-group-neemt-spango-internet-over/

• 🏢 Rotterdam

Team.Blue

• Holder of several hosting brands, including Dutch TransIP and CloudVPS

• https://team.blue/brands/

• 🏢 Gent, Belgium

Fuga

• https://fuga.cloud/

• Openstack provider
• Part of Cyso group
• 🏢 Alkmaar

DirectVPS

• Hosting including Openstack

• https://www.directvps.nl/

• 🏢 Rotterdam

Disroot

• Foundation to offer various public online services, based on free software

• https://disroot.org/en

• 🏢 Amsterdam
• Quite similar to Framasoft in their offering.

Internet

Internet New Years Event

• Organized by Internet Society, Internet Innovatie Award is handed out

• https://newyear.isoc.nl/

• 🏢 Amsterdam
• 📅 (yearly, January)
• 🏆 Internet Innovatie Award

SIDN

• Responsible for .nl domain

• https://sidn.nl/

• 🏢 Arnhem

SIDN fonds

• Foundation for research and development

• https://www.sidnfonds.nl/

• 🏢 Arnhem

Associations

amsix (Amsterdam Internet Exchange)

• https://www.ams-ix.net/ams

• 🏢 Amsterdam

Internet Society Netherlands Chapter (ISOC)

• https://isoc.nl/

ISPConnect

Stichting Digitale Infrastructuur Nederland

• https://www.dinl.nl/

• Focus on digital infrastructure, based on internet-oriented organizations
• 🏢 Leidschendam

Stichting IPv6 Nederland (Stipv6)

• To forward the adoption of IPv6 in the Netherlands
• 🏢 Gouda

Research and education

GÉANT

• https://www.geant.org/

• 🏢 Amsterdam

NLnet

• https://nlnet.nl/

• 🏢 Amsterdam
• 👤 Michiel Leenaars
• 👤 Jos van den Oever

NLnet labs

• https://nlnetlabs.nl/

• 🏢 Amsterdam

ISPs

Freedom Internet

• https://freedom.nl/

• 📅 Amstelveen

The Things Network

• https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/

• Provides networking for LoRa network

Companies

Ripe NCC

• https://www.ripe.net/

• 🏢 Amsterdam

Large software companies

Adyen

Bol.com

Gitlab

Elasticsearch

Booking.com

Artificial Intelligence

NL AI Coalition

• https://nlaic.com/

Research and education

Research organizations

ICT-Research Platform Netherlands

• https://ict-research.nl/

• 🏢 The Hague

ICT.Open

• Event by NWO for ICT research

• https://www.ictopen.nl/

• 📅 (yearly, March)

Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)

• https://www.nwo.nl/

TNO

• https://www.tno.nl/nl/

• Research organization for applied physics
• Can be equated to Frauenhofer institute
• It is an quasi-non-governmental-organization (quango), part of the government but operating independently.

Supportive organizations

Surf

• https://www.surf.nl/

• IT-collaboration in the educational system

Stichting Leergelden (generalizaton)

• Typically each municipality has such an organization that provides support in the form of goods to children of low income households, including laptops.

Schools and universities

Radboud University

• 👤 Bart Jacobs
• 🏢 Nijmegen

Technical University of Eindhoven

• 🏢 Eindhoven
• Developing mechatronics including robots
• Developing software and security solutions

Twente University

• 🏢 Enschede
• Technical university

Delft University

• 🏢 Delft
• In 2020 developed a ventilator for the Corona crisis, to be released as free software and open hardware

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

• https://www.cwi.nl/

• 🏢 Amsterdam

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrum_Wiskunde_%26_Informatica

• Has brought forth important IT people and organizations

Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen

• https://www.han.nl/

• 🏢 Arnhem & Nijmegen

• FSFE has given guest lectures in the past

Erasmus University Rotterdam

• https://www.eur.nl/

• 🏢 Rotterdam
• FSFE has hosted a Privacy Café for the media faculty

Codam College

• https://www.codam.nl/

• 🏢 Amsterdam
• Software development education

Public sector

Gebruiker Centraal

• https://www.gebruikercentraal.nl/

• Association for professionals in governmental online services

• Started NL design system to share UI-code https://nl-design-system.gitlab.io/nl-design-system/

National government

Nederland Digitaal

• https://www.nederlanddigitaal.nl/

• To focus on developing Netherlands digitally
• Government program
• 📅 Conferentie Nederland Digitaal (yearly, March)

  • https://www.nederlanddigitaal.nl/conferentie-nederland-digitaal

Forum Standaardisatie

• Responsible for drafting open standards guidelines

• https://www.forumstandaardisatie.nl/

Stuiveling Open Data Award (SODA)

• To praise the use of Open Data published by the government, can be a private or public use.

• https://www.opendata-award.nl/

• Initially set up for 5 years (2016 - 2020)
• 🏆 Stuiveling Open Data Award (SODA)
• 📅 yearly, September

Pleio (Software and Foundation)

• Open Source discussion software intended for the communication within the public sector.

• https://pleio.nl/

• Hosted services are offered.
• Works in a federated way, so each organization can run their own service, but can collborate across instances.
• It is developed and supported by the Pleio Foundation.
• 👤 Arjan van Noort

Open Overheid

• Institute organized by the government to share knowledge around open government

• https://www.open-overheid.nl/

• Mostly related with ministry of internal affairs (Binnelandse Zaken)

• Part of the https://www.opengovpartnership.org/

• As dicted by the Open Government Partnership, a action plan is created each 2 years to improve opennes ('actieplan open overheid')

• Has created an alliance for other parties to join in 2020: https://www.open-overheid.nl/alliantie-open-overheid/

• Has started an online community on pleio on the subject of Open Source https://opensource.pleio.nl/

• ✅ FSFE has contributed in 2020 to the action plan 2020-2022

Local Government

Vereniging van Nederlandse Gemeenten (VNG)

• https://vng.nl/

• Association of municipalities

• GDI project to coordinate common IT infrastructure https://vng.nl/rubrieken/onderwerpen/generieke-digitale-infrastructuur-gdi

• Have decided in 2021 to use the Open Source Archi software for modelling software architecture, initiated by municipality of Nijmegen. (From update 27 September 2021 by Ad Gerrits on Open Source community on Pleio

Common Ground

• https://commonground.nl/

• Project by municipalities to build a new common IT infrastructure, inspired by Estonian X-road project
• Not enforced but developed in collaboration and municipalities and other public sector organizations are free to join

• VNG background: https://vng.nl/artikelen/common-ground

Stem van Groningen (Consul software)

• Implementation in the city of Groningen of the Consul software for democratic participation of citizens.

• 👤 Nephtis Brandsma (project lead)
• 🏢 Groningen

• https://stemvan.groningen.nl/

• Informative news article with video (in Dutch): https://werkenaaneenoverheid.pleio.nl/news/view/54477463/groningen-bloeiende-proeftuin-voor-digitale-democratie

• Project was used for a case-study in the OSOR Sustainability Guidelines, that are being developed over the years 2019-2020.

Dimpact

• https://www.dimpact.nl/

• Cooperation of 38 municipalities (in 2020) since 2007 (?) to improve the service of municipalities to citizens
• Municpalities collaborate through Dimpact to procure and develop software.
• Dimpact has a neat way of procurement

  • Procuring with multiple municipalities but splitting into technological parts https://www.dimpact.nl/nieuws/aanbesteding-i4sociaal-gepubliceerd

  • Procuring an open source solution of which the municipalities become a full owner https://www.dimpact.nl/news/gemeenten-slaan-handen-in-n-en-halen-het-beste-uit-twee-open-source-producten

Open Zaak (software)

• https://www.dimpact.nl/openzaak

• A case management system at the heart of the operation of a municipality. Open Zaak is a free software implementation of such a system.
• Involved municipalities:Rotterdam, Haarlem, Utrecht, Amsterdam, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Tilburg, Delft, Arnhem, Hoorn, Medemblik, Gemeenschappelijke Regeling SED.

• https://github.com/open-zaak/open-zaak

• Community coordination by Foundation for Public Code
• EUPL licensed

• Developed by Maykin Media under the Dimpact legal organization https://www.dimpact.nl/

• They even did a public consultation to continue the project https://github.com/open-zaak/open-zaak-market-consultation

Zaakmagazijn (software)

• An open source implementation of a case system in accordance with the standards applicable for Dutch municipalities

• https://github.com/Haarlem/zaakregistratiecomponent

• Built by https://www.maykinmedia.nl/ for municipality of Haarlem

Public sector bodies

Kadaster

• https://www.kadaster.nl/

• Reponsible for geographical registration
• Launched FOSS PDOK application

Grid operators

TenneT

• 🏢 Arnhem
• Joined LF Energy

Alliander

• 🏢 Arnhem
• Joined LF Energy

Enexis

• https://www.enexis.nl

• 🏢 Den Bosch
• Pioneered a dongle solution for local smart meter readout with an open API.

Stedin

• 🏢 Rotterdam

Railway

Nederlandse Spoorwegen

ProRail

Health sector

Digivaardig in de Zorg

To improve digital skills in the health sector.

• https://www.digivaardigindezorg.nl/

• By ECP

E-healthweek

• Decentralized event, starting with a centralized event in The Hague

• https://ehealthweek.net/

• 🏢 Leidschendam
• 📅 (yearly, January)

Political parties

Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD)

Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV)

Christen-Democratisch Appèl (CDA)

Democraten 66 (D66)

• 👤 Kees Verhoeven (member of the House of Representatives 2010-2021)

GroenLinks

• 👤 Kees Vendrik (member of the House of Representatives 1998-2010, member of House of Commons 2019-now)

Socialistische Partij (SP)

• 👤 Arda Gerkens (member of the Senate since 2013)

Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA)

• 👤 Astrid Oosenbrug (member of the House of Representatives 2012-2017)

ChristenUnie

Partij voor de Dieren

50PLUS

Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij (SGP)

DENK

Forum voor Democratie

Piratenpartij

• Active in Delft, in collaboration with Studenten In Politiek (STIP) https://delft.piratenpartij.nl/

Volt

Books

Open Source binnen bedrijf en overheid

• Open Source within company and government
• published by Addison Wesley in 2003
• 👤 Jeroen Baten

Open Source Jaarboek

• http://www.media-update.nl/vakpublicaties/eerder-verschenen/index.html

• Four editions (2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010)
• Oriented to lawyers, so contains clear definitions and legal references.
• Publisher: Media Update Vakpublicaties.
• 👤 Hans Sleurink, Jan Stedehouder, Jan Willem Broekema (editors)

Open Source software en standaarden, Jo Lahaye, 2009

• About Open Source Software and Standards
• Publisher: Pearson Benelux B.V.
• 👤 Jo Lahaye(editor)
• 👤 Michael van Wetering
• 👤 Rob van Winden
• 👤 Jeroen Visser
• 👤 Arnoud Engelfriet
• 👤 Walter van Holst
• 👤 Jan Stedehouder
• 👤 Jan Willem Broekema
• 👤 Bart Hanssens