= 2015 Sponsors, Supporters, & Partners

==Local ISPs providing us Internet under the most difficult circumstances... 
  * [[http://main.airjaldi.com/aj5|Air Jaldi]] for the free sponsorship of 2mbps for one month
  * [[http://www.vayudoot.in|Vayudoot]] for 10mbps for May at super-discounted rate


==Thank you!

  * Shiv Shakti, our venue
  * [[http://ssdev.org|ssdev e.V.]], for plenty of tools & locks
  * [[http://mindgrep.com|mindgrep]], for everything!
  * [[http://jaaga.in|Jaaga]], for being here with us and running [[CodeCamp]]
  * [[http://bowibo.org|Boards without Borders]], for getting skateboards for us (pending)
  * [[http://stickma.de|stickma]] and [[http://wildsmile.de|wildsmile]] for many many [[stickers]] for free + free [[stickers#shirt]] printing screens, cloth-colour, caring for [[hwb]] and what not!
  * [[http://hasgeek.in|hasgeek]] for providing a venue for [[Bangalore]] [[pre-event]]


Most of the partners below still apply ;) [[funding|Moneywise]] we haven't been that hard-working this year, so barely applied for any [[funding|grants]], and haven't received that much:
  * [[http://aj.networktheworld.org/|Network of the world]], for spending us 2500 USD (pending), Thank you!
  * [[http://NLnet.nl|NLnet]], for spending additional 1000 EUR (pending), Thank you!


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= 2014 Sponsors, Supporters, & Partners


== Supporters

== Those are the ones we actually got (or will get) money from. Thank you very much!
  * [[http://aj.networktheworld.org/|Network the World]] 
  * [[http://nlnet.nl|NLnet foundation]]
  * [[https://webwewant.org/news/Announcing_the_Web_25_Year_of_Action_Grants|WebWeWant web 25 year of action grants]]
  * [[http://wauland.de/|wauland.de]] and [[http://ccc.de/|CCC]] 

== Local ISP providing us Internet, Thank you very much! 
  * [[http://www.vayudoot.in|Vayudoot]] for providing 8mbps for the month of October at super discounted rate
  * [[http://main.airjaldi.com/aj5|Air Jaldi]] for the free sponsorship of 8mbps for the main conference

== Last but not least
  * [[http://mindgrep.com|mindgrep]] – endless, deep and lovely support in just everything on site here in Dharamshala – Thanks so much for being there for us all this time! Mindgrep is included from the very first second: first cryptoparty in July 2013, conducted the congress-everywhere pre-event, founded the infinity hackbase which provides us space, got the domains, is!
  *   * [[http://stickma.de|stickma]] and [[http://wildsmile.de|wildsmile]] for many many [[stickers]] for free + free [[stickers#shirt]] printing screens, cloth-colour, caring for [[hwb]] and what not!

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== Partners
  * [[http://countrylodge.in|Countrylodge]] the wonderful guesthouse we use as a [[venue]] in Dharamshala. Thanks so much for understanding our strange needs!
  * White Crane Trust
    * Founded around the Dharamshala International Filmfestival, see http://diff.co.in. Godfathers of hillhacks, as they brought Akiba and sva together ;)
  * Geeks in Dharamsala
    * [[http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/infinity|infinity hackbase in Rakkar]] - our headquarter on site
    * http://tibetangeeks.com/ – http://geekroom.tibetangeeks.com/ - thanks for providing space and internet in McLeod for amazing things!
    * Digital Dhasa mailinglist 
  * http://www.ccc.de/ 
    * Many people out of the CCC crowd are supporting us infrastructure, hands and other help. (There is support especially from the perspective of http://events.ccc.de/ as sva already organized a lot ccc-events)
  * http://null.co.in/ (especially the recently founded chapter dharamshala)
  * http://hackconf.in/
  * [[http://india.media.mit.edu/ | MIT Media Lab in India]]
  * wikimedia/wikipedia India
  * http://makerfest.com (for making connections, spreading the good word :))
  * Mozilla, especially with the webmaking programme

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== Partners for the pre-events

Those were helping us spreading the message, providing a venue for the pre-events etc. Thanks a lot!

  * [[http://makersasylum.com/|Makersasylum]] (Mumbai)
  * [[http://sarai.net/|Sarai Institute]] (Delhi)
  * [[http://www.iitk.ac.in/|IITK]] (Kanpur)
  * [[http://cis-india.org|Centre for Internet and Society]] (Bangalore and Delhi)
  * [[http://hasgeek.com|Hasgeek]] (Bangalore)
  * [[http://www.dalailamainstitute.edu.in/|Dalai Lama Institute for higher education]] (bangalore)
  * [[http://karkhana.asia/|Karkhana]] (Kathmandu)
  * [[http://muc.ccc.de/|muCCC]] and [[http://berlin.ccc.de/|CCCB]] (Munich and Berlin)
  * [[https://entropia.de/GPN14|Entropia]] (Karlsruhe)
  * [[http://www.iitm.ac.in/|IIT Madras]] (Chennai)
  * [[http://fablab.cept.ac.in|Fablab]] (Ahmedabad)

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= Ideas and Connections

This is a list of other organisations that might be interesting to collaborate with. Please add more (would be also interesting to collect anyway for the upcoming years) 

  * Arduino India -- http://local.arduino.cc/bangalore/
  * Dalai Lama Center for Ethics at MIT
    * jie, any news?
  * https://tibetaction.net/
    * in form of Lobsang they already know about
  * https://www.tacticaltech.org/
    * the people there know about that but not official contact so far
  * http://www.cityxproject.com/
  * TechShop
  * jagori and nishta, the NGOs in Rakkar
  * http://bolobhi.org/about-us/ (Pakistan!)
  * http://sflc.in/ - delhi, Software Freedom Law Centre
  * http://hive.mozillaindia.org - Did Makerfare, but no updates since
  * http://www.africahackon.com/ – founder seems to be in India, at least s/he posts on the null-mailinglist.
  * http://tibetanwomen.org/
  * http://www.itforchange.net/ -- An India-based NGO working on information society theory and practice from the standpoint of equity, social justice and gender equality.
  * http://fsmk.org - free software movement in bangalore, working across colleges and slums in Karnataka
  * https://slumdweller.wikispaces.com/ - community computing initiative 
  * Contact kaspar in #hillhacks for chance to host a workcamp doing basic constuction work in Dharamshala