Activities

Gatherings

The main activities of the association are in the (co-)organisation of two major conferences every year, and a number of smaller meetings. Each of them dedicated to the spread of knowledge of Open Systems and Open Standards. The NLUUG also contributes to activities of third parties.

FTP server

NLUUG operates in cooperation with Surfnet a large FTP server and mirror for (all below links jump into the FTP archives):

• OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenSolaris
• many Linux Distributions, including Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Knoppix, Opensuse, Slackware and Ubuntu
• Perl CPAN
• Applications like ImageMagick, OpenOffice.org, Blender, VIM, and Pinball (game),
• KDE
• The GNU project
• X.org
• Networking packages like Samba and Stunnel
• complete mirrors of other famous FTP servers like ibiblio, metalab and sunsite

Mike Hulsman is responsible for the day-day operational mainetnance, while Jan-Christiaan van Winkel maintains the content.

The networking and hosting costs are donated by SURFnet.

Other activities

Of course, there are many advantages to be a member of the NLUUG. See membership for a more exhaustive list.