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Author: Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 23:26:22 +0200
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+\setkomavar{fromaddress}{Boltzmannstraße 3 \\ 85748 Garching bei München}
+%\setkomavar{frombank}{IBAN: DE67830654080004822650 \\ BIC: GENODEF1SLR}
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+\setkomavar{subject}[]{Recommendation for nlnet for the EC's NGI initiative}
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+%===================================
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+ \parbox[t]{\textwidth}{\footnotesize
+
+ \begin{tabular}[t]{l@{}}
+ \multicolumn{1}{@{}l@{}}{Association:}\\
+ GNUnet e. V. \\
+ Boltzmannstraße 3, 85748 Garching bei München \\ \\
+ E-Mail: ev@gnunet.org \\
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+\begin{document}
+
+
+%===================================
+% receiver
+\begin{letter}{
+ To whom it may concern \\
+}
+
+\opening{\ }
+\vspace{-1.5cm}
+
+%===================================
+
+GNUnet e.V. is an association dedicated to supporting research,
+development and education in the area of secure decentralized
+networking. We are excited to learn that NLnet will apply for funding
+from the EC's NGI initiative, and are happy to lend them our strongest
+support.
+
+Various community members of GNUnet e.V. have worked with NLnet over
+the last decade, and we have found their funding process to be
+reasonably uncomplicated and effective. In terms of knowledgeable and
+result-oriented mechanisms for grantmaking, NLnet is comparable with
+the (less specialized) Emmy Noether Programme of the DFG, except that
+it's decision making speed is even faster. We also have experience
+with H2020, FP7, KTI and NSF funding proceedures, which are all more
+complicated and generally result in lower quality expert reviews (of
+both applications and deliverables). We can also attest that NLnet is
+well known in the larger community of people building modern,
+privacy-preserving network applications and services, so we predict
+that they will have no problem attracting a substantial number of
+quality applications.
+
+We thus think that it is a really good idea for NLnet to coordinate
+funding in this area: many promising projects are unable to directly
+meet the requirements to receive EU funding, in particular given the
+complex application and reporting procedures. Furthermore, NLnet's
+plan to create a shared infrastructure would add some of the
+professionalism that is currently lacking in this space. As GNUnet
+e.V., we see particularly strong value in infrastructure to address
+usability, accessibility, continuous integration and reproducible
+builds, as these are not currently adequately covered for us by the
+GNU project.
+
+Thus, as one of the larger and older efforts in the space of
+reinventing the Internet, GNUnet e.V. would really like to see NLnet
+to be responsible for managing the NGI and selecting the right
+(sub)projects. Having them as an intermediary will be hugely
+beneficial as we know that they can adapt to the needs of the
+people that might actually make a difference.
+
+
+\vspace{3cm}
+Prof. Dr. Christian Grothoff\\
+President, GNUnet e. V. \\
+{\texttt grothoff@gnunet.org}
+
+
+\end{letter}
+\end{document}
