2015 Sponsors, Supporters, & Partners
Local ISPs providing us Internet under the most difficult circumstances...
Thank you!
- Shiv Shakti, our venue
- ssdev e.V., for plenty of tools & locks
- mindgrep, for everything!
- Boards without Borders, for getting skateboards for us (pending)
Most of the partners below still apply ;) Moneywise we haven't been that hard-working this year, so barely applied for any grants, and haven't received that much:
- Network of the world, for spending us 2500 USD (pending), Thank you!
- 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!
Local ISP providing us Internet, Thank you very much!
Last but not least
- 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!
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Partners
- 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
- 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
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- 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)
- 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!
- Makersasylum (Mumbai)
- Sarai Institute (Delhi)
- IITK (Kanpur)
- Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore and Delhi)
- Hasgeek (Bangalore)
- Dalai Lama Institute for higher education (bangalore)
- Karkhana (Kathmandu)
- Entropia (Karlsruhe)
- IIT Madras (Chennai)
- 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?
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- in form of Lobsang they already know about
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- the people there know about that but not official contact so far
- 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://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