<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Kevin Chege <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chege@isoc.org" target="_blank">chege@isoc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>SAFNOG is not a splinter of AfNOG but rather a localisation effort just like your GHNOGs, NgNOGs etc. There is also East Africa NOG as well (<a href="http://eanog.org" target="_blank">http://eanog.org</a>). All these are just localized efforts to improve the reach and scale of AfNOG and capacity building.
AfNOG is and will always be the main NOG and main capacity building event in Africa spanning the entire region. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Great! i guess the part of your mail that makes it look non-local is what i quote below:<br>
<br><span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chege@isoc.org" target="_blank">chege@isoc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">......As you might guess, it is a NOG for the <b>Southern African region</b>......<br>
<br></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium"><font>Thanks for clarifying, and on a lighter note perhaps that section should be reworded.</font> <br><br></div><div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">
Cheers!<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word">
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Seun Ojedeji <<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" target="_blank">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:43 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>JP <<a href="mailto:froztbyte@froztbyte.net" target="_blank">froztbyte@froztbyte.net</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>"<a href="mailto:afnog@afnog.org" target="_blank">afnog@afnog.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:afnog@afnog.org" target="_blank">afnog@afnog.org</a>><div class="im"><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [afnog] Introducing Southern Africa Network Operators Group - SAFNOG<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:57 PM, JP <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:froztbyte@froztbyte.net" target="_blank">froztbyte@froztbyte.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 28 Jan 2014, at 1:25 PM, Kevin Chege <<a href="mailto:chege@isoc.org" target="_blank">chege@isoc.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Greetings to you all.<br>
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> We would like to take this opportunity to introduce to<br>
> you a new network operators group, SAFNOG.<br>
> SAFNOG stands for Southern Africa Network Operators<br>
> Group. As you might guess, it is a NOG for the Southern<br>
> African region, with a vision to hold meetings in a<br>
> different Southern African country each year. SAFNOG, of<br>
> course, is open to the entire world as well.<br>
> Details about SAFNOG, and how to subscribe to the SAFNOG<br>
> mailing list can be found at:<br>
> <a href="http://www.safnog.org" target="_blank">www.safnog.org</a><br>
> SAFNOG will be holding its first operational and<br>
> technical meeting - SAFNOG-1 - on 22nd & 23rd April,<br>
> 2014, at the Sandton Hilton hotel in Johannesburg, South<br>
> Africa. More details on this to follow in upcoming<br>
> messages and on the web site.<br>
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I’ll put this as non-offensively as I can manage, but: why bother?<br>
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Why create a splinter community instead of just growing the afnog one further? I don’t see anything immediately listed on your site which couldn’t form up as a part or chapter of afnog.<br>
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+1 Perhaps It will be good to hear/understand reason behind this initiative(considering that this was sent from
<a href="http://isoc.org" target="_blank">isoc.org</a> domain i assume its official from ISOC). One that quickly comes to mind is distance (the cost to travel to afnog training from southern African countries, which ofcourse does not just apply to southern africans alone :)).<br>
If that was the main reason, I would have thought investing efforts towards setting up "National NOGs", would have been more appropriate. Just like we have GhNOG, NgNOG, TzNOG etc.<br>
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<div>The other point would be to ask about afnog hosting process, i.e is selection on "best host application" OR "better host application" that put region into consideration for fair distribution of the travel cost and other costs including language et all.<br>
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