NLUUG (formerly known as The Netherlands Local Unix User Group) is an association of professional

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users in the

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. The group aims to increase and extend the awareness and use of Open Standards (including UNIX) and similar open systems and Open Source software. The NLUUG also maintains one of the largest FTP mirrors in the world, and is the prime FTP site for several packages including VIM.

Activities

Typically, the NLUUG organises two large conferences every year. Topics over the last years include: * IP Communication * Languages and Tools * E-mail and Beyond * Visualization in Software Engineering * Open Source in Business * Security * Web Applications * Extreme UNIX

History

The NLUUG was founded in 1983, but the initial members were active together a long time before that. The NLUUG founded the first Internet provider in the Netherlands,

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. NLnet at the time only was serving businesses, which is why XS4All usually claims to be the first Internet provider (for consumers). Other claims to fame are the founding of the SANE Conferences organization and the fact that the NLUUG was the first organisation to have

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be a speaker on a conference outside Finland.in Ede, the Netherlands, November 5, 1993. See Chapter XI of:

NLUUG Awards

The NLUUG sometime gives awards to people who have been helping the cause of Open Systems and Open Standards. Over the years, awards have been given to amongst others

Piet Beertema Piet Beertema (born 22 October 1943 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch Internet pioneer. On November 17, 1988 at 2:28 PM, he linked the Netherlands as the second country (shortly after France's INRIA) to NSFNET, a precursor to the Internet. Beertema was th ...

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, Bram Moolenaar, Andy Tanenbaum, Wytze van der Raay,

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, and Olaf Kolkman.

External links

NLUUG home page The FTP site

References and footnotes

Professional associations based in the Netherlands User groups {{netherlands-org-stub