Microsoft Innovation Center Nederland

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The purpose of the Microsoft Innovation Center Netherland (MIC NL) is to help developers, ISVs, students, entrepreneurs, and governments to develop and deploy innovative software solutions based on technology and solutions from Microsoft and Microsoft Certified Partners.

Please visit the official Microsoft Innovation Center Nederland website. This is just a working document.

The MIC NL is part of the global network of centers that in turn are part of Microsoft's focus on the development of Local Software Economies (LSEs) worldwide.

The MIC NL provides customers and partners a consistent and comprehensive set of consulting services, training programs and technical seminars with the goal of fostering innovation in the software economy.

At the MIC NL we focus on the transfer of information and knowledge, and development of innovative software solutions with our community of industry, academic, and government partners.

MIC NL focuses on:

• Prosperous local software enterprises and ecosystems
• Local software IP
• Local talent
• Competent and loyal Microsoft partners
• Comprehensive Microsoft solutions
• Strong local technical support

MIC NL Principles of Organization

1. Be open to anyone subscribing to the Puropse and Principles in conducting MIC NL activities.
2. Have the right to self-organize at any time, on any scale, in any form or around any activity consistent with the Purpose and Principles.
3. Conduct deliberations and make decisions by bodies and methods that reasonably represent all relevant affected parties and are dominated by none.
4. Vest authority, perform functions and use resources in the smallest or most local part that includes all relevant and affected parties.
5. Educe rather than compel behavior to the maximum possible degree.

MIC NL Principles of Practice

1. Enable participants to protect private information and relationships from unwanted monitoring, intrusion, disclosure, or use.
2. Work to ensure diversity of solutions and communities.
3. Work to ensure that no member obtains an intrinsic advantage in the MIC NL LSE.
4. Work to ensure that voting rights and membership fees are derived from a common formula based on each members contribution to the MIC NL LSE.
5. Freely and fully exchange information relevant to the Purpose and Principles unless it violates confindentiality or materially diminishes competitive position.
6. Resolve conflict without resort to economic, physical or other violence or intimidation.

MIC NL Principles of Operation

1. Provide infrastructure services on a best effort basis.
2. Provide core services including, but not limited to, the most recent RTM versions (including any official service packs) of:
   • Windows Server
   • Active Directory;
   • DHCP;
   • DNS;
   • SMS;
   • MOM;
3. Provide Virtual Machine and Virtual Server environments for Participants to run their own applications without affecting others.

In order for the MIC NL Staff to comply with the above Principles of Organization and Principles of Practice, we kindly ask you to:

1. Acknowledge the dedicated reservation of machines Aap and Noot to run the MIC NL Core Services; these Core Machines are to be operated on by MIC NL staff only.
2. Be responsible for your own backups; none of your data will be backed up by MIC NL Staff;
3. Understand and accept the fact that storage capacity used by you on the MIC NL SAN is "leased" for one month and will be eligible for (automatic) garbage collection after the lease period;
4. Understand and accept that the MIC NL Staff can not and will not be responsible for any privacy or intellectual property violation of information stored by third party Participants;

Definitions

Core Services	The basic and essential services required to run and operate IT services.
LSE	Local Software Ecosystem.
MIC NL Staff	Personnel in charge of daily operations of the MIC NL facilities, including, but not limited to, registration, administration, reception, management, catering, hospitality, and operations of information.