[NLnet Press] Press release: Marc Gauw appointed new General Director NLnet

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Marc Gauw appointed new General Director NLnet
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                   Amsterdam, January 9th 2014

The Amsterdam-based NLnet Foundation is appointing industry veteran
Marc Gauw (53) as its new General Director as of February 2014. NLnet
is a small but very active technology fund with a global scope,
providing developtment grants to disruptive as well as fundamental
technology projects that help make the internet safer and more
trustworthy.

Gauw brings along over 17 years of experience in the internet
community. For the last six years he served as Commercial Director of
NLix, which during this time became the fifth largest internet
exchange on the planet. Before that he was chairman of the board of
the Amsterdam Internet Exchange.

Gauw is looking forward to his new position. "Certainly over the
course of the last year sinister matters have come to light that alter
our perspective on the current health status of the internet", he
remarks. "Safety and privacy of users turn out to be protected far
less well than often assumed. NLnet has been working for over twenty
years - underneath the radar of public attention - on maintaining the
open and federated internet as we all originally envisioned. Its work
is more necessary than ever, and the time has come to move to into the
center and try to bring together the necessary means."

The history of NLnet goes back to 1982 when the first pan-European
UNIX network was announced by internet pioneer and subsequent director
of NLnet Teus Hagen. Hagen was inaugurated last year into the Internet
Hall of Fame by the international Internet Society for his contributions.

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This press release is also online:

               [in English:]
                 http://nlnet.nl/news/2014/20140109-MarcGauw-en.html
                [in het Nederlands:]
                 http://nlnet.nl/news/2014/20140109-MarcGauw.html

For more information:

   Michiel Leenaars
   tel: +31 (0)6 27050947
   SIP/XMPP/mail: m.leenaars [at] nlnet.nl

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About NLnet Foundation
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NLnet foundation is an independent organisation whose means come from
donations and legacies.  Its initial capital was gathered in 1997 by
the sale of the first Dutch Internet Service Provider. Its private
capital ensures an absolute independent position. The articles of
association for the NLnet foundation state: "to promote the exchange
of electronic information and all that is related or beneficial to
that purpose". Its private capital ensures an absolute independent
position. The articles of association for the NLnet Foundation state:
"to promote the exchange of electronic information and all that is
related or beneficial to that purpose". A number of times a year NLnet
organises a worldwide open call for projects to be supported. The long
list of NLnet-funded projects includes NLnet Labs, Tor project,
Unhosted, Sockethub, SSL Observatory, Lantern Project, Calligra Suite,
WebODF, Serval, Jitsi, 0cpm and GNUnet.

                                http://nlnet.nl

Interested what Richard Stallman, Karsten Nohl, Andy Tanenbaum and
many others have to say about what NLnet helped them do for you?
Feel your wallet tingling already? Check out:

                         http://nlnet.nl/donating/quotes.html
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