<div dir="ltr"><div><div>+1 AKUFO,<br></div>I can't agree more with you and I fully support the idea.<br><br></div>--Komi<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-06-14 8:52 GMT+00:00 Kofi ANSA AKUFO <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kofi.ansa@gmail.com" target="_blank">kofi.ansa@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Sounds interesting Logan,<div><br></div><div>Perhaps the theme should focus on leveraging current hot technologies that will enable us to be at par with our colleagues on other continents.</div><div><br></div><div>See a few suggestions below to consider ...</div><div><br></div><div>Many organisations have managed to migrate and or deploy some form of cloud infrastructure in our region but are just realizing 13% - 18% of the full benefits of their infrastructure.</div><div> ==>. Now we should focus on assisting the community to tune their systems to reap the remaining 82% "<font color="#0000ff"><b>Increasing agility — reducing server and application provisioning from 1 - 2 days to 3 minutes as well as reducing operational costs by say 85%</b></font>" .</div><div><br></div><div>So lets focus on digesting projects like openstack and its components - which are gradually taking center stage as well as leverage configuration management and automation tools like puppet and containers.</div><div><br></div><div>... And whilst we are at this it will be great to see the R&D and Training departments of our NOGs as well as AfriNIC to collect data on such deployments and revise their training to be integral to that respect. </div><div><br></div><div>The continent is relatively more connected now compared to 3-4 years ago. We should fully exploit these gains: </div><div>- Building container lab frameworks where our community members can hold online network design training and competitions. [Your hackathon could be delivered on this platform :) and become a more regular activity rather than a one time event]</div><div>- Collaborate more with NREN to develop online course contents and seed research in our universities.</div><div>- deliver some of our trainings like IPv6 through how they fit into new paradigms like application staging and provisioning through containers.</div><div><br></div><div>The cloud paradigm and its associated driving technologies is <font color="#0000ff"><b>a reality now</b></font> NOT VIRTUAL :) and we should exploit it to the fullest.</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#0000ff">CHALLENGE: It will be interesting to see an integrated RPK, IPv4 and IPv6 configuration training delivered as part of an online labs platform. Participants should be able to spin up and create their own setups - throw network orchestrations (SDN and NFV) into the configs, simulate on premises cloud, demo best practices, guides and propositions by operators of required feature development assistance .... most important use it to teach the very same technologies powering the labs.</font></div><div><font color="#0000ff"><br></font></div><div><font color="#0000ff">The impact of such online collab lab (sponsored of course by benevolent members of NOGs in our region) on RICH training content creation and achievement of set awareness targets in relatively short time span. </font></div><div><br></div><div>Times are changing and such labs and services should be available as critical platforms for ICT development in our region.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>K.</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 June 2016 at 11:44, Loganaden Velvindron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:loganaden@gmail.com" target="_blank">loganaden@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
After AIS in Botswana, I was wondering if there might be some interest<br>
to organize a Hackathon for the next meeting in Mauritius.<br>
<br>
In order for it to work, we would need<br>
<br>
1) A room with Internet and stable electricity (3 days, non-stop, 10<br>
hours of intense coding)<br>
2) Low noise level, and restricted room access so that participants can focus.<br>
3) People familiar with coding in languages such as Python/Perl and C,<br>
and who are willing to spare some time ahead of the hackathon to brush<br>
up their skills, so that they can hit the hackathon with some kind of<br>
code. In my experience organizing various hackathons in Mauritius,<br>
it's better to have an idea ahead of time, and already having some<br>
code written before coming so that you can quickly iron out the bugs,<br>
and improve code steadily.<br>
<br>
TOPIC: DNS, DNSSEC, BGP, SMTPS, TLS, <insert your idea here><br>
<br>
We would need at least 3 hackers as a start.<br>
<br>
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