The NLUUG Board

The Board currently comprises of six members. New board members are elected at the members' Annual General Assembly, after which the board's division of tasks is decided by mutual agreement within the board.

Luc Nieland

Luc is the chairman of the NLUUG. Luc is using Unix systems since 1994. At that time some purple colored system gave interesting results during his graduation research project in molecular biology. Currently Luc works as Unix/Database specialist and independent technical architect.

Klaas van Gend

Klaas is the Treasurer of the NLUUG. Since 1999, Klaas has been professionally engaged with Linux software development. He currently holds a job as Sr. Solutions Architect at MontaVista Linux Software.
Klaas also writes as a free-lance author for amongst others the Dutch Linux Magazine. He lives with his wife in the Eindhoven region and if he's not busy working or writing, he can be often found in the local cinema.

Mark Overmeer

The Secretary. With an MSc in Computing Science from the Radboud University, Mark had regular jobs as computing center programmer at the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratories NLR, and UNIX trainer at AT Computing. Since 2002, he is self-employed at MARKOV Solutions, primarily working as Open Source programmer in Perl.
Mark not only implemented the tenth Dutch website in existence (in 1995), he is also responsible for the current version of this website.
Mark's personal web-site ().

Adriaan de Groot

Adriaan is a Canadian by birth and a Dutchman by training. For 20 years, Adriaan's research at the Radboud University Nijmegen in software quality and his work for various Free Software organizations have kept him in the sphere of Open Standards and Open Systems. He lives in the Netherlands and travels around talking about Open Systems and Free Software. Adriaan is also a member of the board of directors of KDE e.V.
Adriaan's blog.

Rudi van Drunen

Besides to being a dad, Rudi is techie and CTO with Competa IT, a professional IT services company. He has got more than 20 years experience in all levels of the UNIX operating systems running on large (Enterprise) or small (Embedded) systems. Rudi is very active in USENIX and is a regular visitor of their conferences. Next to that, Rudi runs a small business on the side: XlexIT. His passions include technology (Hard and Software) exact science and Photography.
Rudis personal homepage.