The ClojureDays Foundation Policy Plan 2025
We started the ClojureDays foundation to ensure the continuity of the yearly, free, Dutch Clojure Days conference.
I’ve been involved in organizing the conference for the last 5 years, and it’s been extremely fun and rewarding work to create an educational and social event for an international group of people who may know each other by their online work but who generally have very little face-to-face time.
I’m proud of the fact that thanks to our hospitable volunteers, generous sponsors and entertaining speakers the quality of the conference has been improving every year while keeping the conference 100% free.
In creating the foundation we established an independent entity that will support the conference going further and can expand into more community-oriented activities.
– Joost Diepenmaat, treasurer
Terms
This policy plan spans the current financial year, January 2025 till December 2025.
Mission, vision and strategy
We support the computer programmer community worldwide, our main focus is on the community surrounding the Clojure programming language in the Netherlands.
We aim to achieve the goal by organising and supporting conferences, meetups, workshops, development of open source software libraries and other related activities.
Current situation, activities
Last yearly conference
The last yearly conference has happened in October 2022. Due to the lack of capacity we have been skipping our yearly conference ever since.
ClojureDays 2026 conference
We will organize the Dutch Clojure Days 2026 annual conference to be held in May 2026. The conference will host about 130 people and will be free of charge for attendees.
Organisation info
Name
Stichting ClojureDays. Also known as ClojureDays Foundation.
Residence
Amersfoort, The Netherlands
RSIN
RSIN 860666554
KVK
KVK 76542319
Website
https://foundation.clojuredays.org/
Address
Stichting ClojureDays
Edisonstraat 4
3817 VN
Amersfoort
The Netherlands
Board members
The foundation is managed by a board comprising three people:
- Carlo Sciolla, chairman
- Remco van ‘t Veer, secretary
- Joost Diepenmaat, treasurer
Board members volunteer their time and receive only compensation for reasonable expenses made doing their work for the foundation.
The foundation employs no people.
Finances & Funding
To finance the conference and other activities we’re attracting corporate sponsors who will provide funds in exchange for exposure to the Clojure programming community.
Based on our data from the previous conferences we expect costs for the 2026 conference to be €16,000 - €20,000 all in.
We aim to keep the remaining amount of funds, estimated at €5,000 depending on sponsoring details and expenses, for foundation operating costs (mostly infrastructure and administration costs) and general reserves for following conferences and events if sponsoring brings in less than expected.
The current fiscal year will run from January 2025 till 31 December 2025. We will provide a financial report within 6 months after the end of the fiscal year.
After 2025
During 2025 we will be busy organizing the 2026 Dutch Clojure Days conference. In Q1 2026 a new policy plan will be published, detailing the Foundation plan for such year.