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6. I am not aware of any Dutch per se ISP conferences although that market is certainly quite vibrant.
See http://www.nlnog.net/ though "conferences" is not the case, then again there is RIPE + AMS-IX meetings, who needs more than that :) Also see http://www.swinog.org for the Swiss Network Operators Group, which I can really recommend for attending meetings as they are a lot of fun. (Hint: Generally the meeting is hold in the "Altes TramDepot" (http://www.altestramdepot.ch/) , which is a beer brewery and has a wide selection of beers ;)
I am also disappointed to see the Canadians and Irish have next to nothing despite Ireland being the European base of operations for Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Yahoo.
Ireland has SAGE-IE (http://www.sysadmin.ie/) which fills in the niche quite well, together with ILUG (http://www.linux.ie/) for related subjects. I think they are quite well covered too :) Germany btw has CCC Congress + SummerCamp (http://events.ccc.de), thus they are also covered :) Though indeed not 100% ISP events, they are very much related and also a lot of fun.
8. Both DEC-IX and AMS-IX have member meetings each year. Not clear how difficult to get invited if you are not a member.
If you are not a member at either of these your network has a problem :) (Oh and you are missing out on the great AMS-IX parties too!) Greets, Jeroen