[afnog] AfNOG 2012 ANNOUNCEMENT - English

Fri Nov 25 11:23:27 UTC 2011

Hi All,

Please find below Announcement for AfNOG 2012.

Deadline for receipt of Applications is 20 January, 2012.   Kindly send to
various lists.

Regards

Nancy Dotse

 AfNOG Secretariat

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AfNOG-13 and AfriNIC-16: Meetings 6 - 18 May, 2012

The African Network Operators' Group (AfNOG) and the African Network
Information Centre (AfriNIC) are pleased to announce that the 12th AfNOG
Workshop & Meeting and the AfriNIC-14 Meeting would be held in Serekunda,
Gambia from 6th  - 18th  May 2012.  Every year, hundreds of Network
Engineers from across the IT industry in the Africa Continent world attend
the Annual AfNOG Event."While AfNOG fuels the rapid growth of Internet in
Africa with trained technical capacity, our content has been determined by
the needs of the community. In so doing AfNOG's output training capacity has
multiplied in the past decade and the community flourished"

About the Entire Event

AfNOG and AfriNIC are jointly organizing a two-week event that includes the
AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology (offering advanced training in a
week-long hands-on workshop), several full-day Advanced Tutorials, a one-day
AfNOG Meeting, and a two-day AfriNIC Meeting. 

In addition, several side meetings and workshops will be hosted in
collaboration with other organizations. 

Who Should Attend

Network engineers in the Africa region who wish to acquire the necessary
skill in IT must can attend this Workshop.

Local Host

The Local Host for AfNOG 2012 is QCell)

Time Table

Unix Boot Camp                         -         6 May 2012  (Sunday)

AfNOG Workshop                      -         7 - 11 May 2012  (Monday -
Friday         

CERT Training (AAF/AfREN)        -         7 - 12 May 2012  (Monday -
Saturday)

AfriNIC RIM (LIR)                      -         12 May 2012  (Saturday) 

ISOC Standards Day                     -              12 May 2012
(Saturday)

AfriNIC IPv6                              -         12 - 13 May 2012
(Saturday - Sunday)

AfricaCERTCybersecurity Day     -              13 May 2012 (Sunday)

AfNOG Tutorials                        -         13 - 14 May 2012  (Sunday -
Monday)

AfREN Meeting / AAF                 -              14 May 2012 (Monday)

AfNOG -13 Meeting                    -         15 May 2012  (Tuesday)

AfriNIC-15 Meeting                     -         16 - 18 May 2012
(Wednesday to Friday)

AfPIF                                          -        18 May 2012
(Friday)

AfGWG                                     -         18 May 2012  (Friday)

Venue & Hotel

Venue  & hotel for the event will be announced shortly. 

About AfNOG

AfNOG (See  <http://www.afnog.org/> <http://www.afnog.org/>) is a forum for
cooperation and the exchange of technical information between operators of
Internet-connected networks in Africa. AfNOG has organized an event like
this one every year since 2000.

About AfriNIC

AfriNIC (See  <http://www.afrinic.net/> <http://www.afrinic.net/>) is a
Regional Internet Registry (RIR), responsible for Internet Number resources
Management in the Africa region. AfriNIC organizes two Public Policy
meetings every year (see <http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/>).

AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology

The AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology aims to offer advanced training to
people who are in the process of developing and enhancing an
Internet-connected network with regional and international connectivity. The
target audience includes senior and mid-level technical staff of commercial
Internet service providers (ISPs), academic networks, government networks,
or NGO networks.

This workshop builds on the experience of previous AfNOG workshops held
annually from 2000 to 2010 in eleven different African countries, and also
the Internet Society's INET workshops, held annually from 1993 to 2000 at
eight locations around the world. The workshop's instructors are an
international team with many years of experience operating large networks
and teaching about network operations.

The workshop is divided into Six parallel tracks:

*	SS-E - Scalable Internet Services (in English), focused on the
design and operation of email, web, and other Internet services, in ways
that can scale to handle large numbers of end users. 
*	SI-E - Scalable Network Infrastructure (in English), focused on the
design and operation of networks using routers and switches, in ways that
can scale to handle large numbers of interconnected sites. 
*	NM -  Network Monitoring & Management (English) 
*	AR  -  Advanced Routing Techniques (English) 
*	CT   - CERT Training (English) 
*	SI-F -  Network Monitoring & Management (en francais), similar to
track NM-E, but given in French. 

Workshop application information is at :

http://www.afnog.org/applications/online_application_en.php

http://www.afnog.org/applications/online_application_fr.php

 **Workshop Deadline - 20th  January, 2012

AfREN / Africa Asia Forum

The Africa Research and Education Networking  (AfREN) and Africa Asia Forum
community (AAF) will  be holding a one day meeting on 14 May 2012. The
meeting will discuss issues of interest to the NREN community such as
coordination on activites in the region, advocacy, bandwidth consortia,
regional RENs etc. 

Additional information on AfREN /AAF 2012 will be provided shortly. 

AfNOG Tutorials

AfNOG will offer 1 to 2 full-day(s) tutorials on advanced topics. 

Tutorials take place in a classroom-style environment, and may include a
hands-on practical component. Tutorials are non-commercial in nature, and
most are technically oriented. They are intended to offer advanced training
on technology already deployed or soon to be deployed on networking and
related services provisioning for ISP operations. 

Additional information about AfNOG 2012 Tutorials will be available here
shortly: 

< <http://www.afnog.org/afnog2012/tutorial/>
http://www.afnog.org/afnog2012/tutorial/>

13th AfNOG Meeting

The 13th AfNOG meeting will be held in Serekunda, Gambia 15 May 2012. AfNOG
conferences provide a forum for the coordination and dissemination of
technical information related to backbone/enterprise networking technologies
and operational practices. The meetings are informal, with an emphasis on
relevance to current and future African backbone engineering practices. The
AfNOG 2011 conference in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania drew over 203 participants,
mainly consisting of network engineering staff from national service
providers, and members of the research and education community. 

Additional information and the Conference schedule will be available here
shortly: 
< <http://www.afnog.org/afnog2012conference/>
http://www.afnog.org/afnog2012conference/>

AfriNIC-16 Meeting

The AfriNIC-16 meeting will be held in Serekunda, Gambia for three days from
16 - 18 May, 2012. AfriNIC Meetings are open to everyone and provide an
excellent opportunity to take part in Internet policy discussions. These
policies, which describe how Internet Number Resources should be managed and
distributed, are developed by the community. The meeting will include
tutorials, presentations, update on the various working groups and the
AfriNIC Public Policy Meeting. The two day meeting will be preceeded by a
two-day IPv6 training. The meeting will focus on the IPv6 protocol and its
deployment, especially in Africa and the issue of the exhaustion of the IPv4
pool of address space. There will be an opportunity to discuss the
challenges which our region will be facing with IPv4 address space
exhaustion. 

Further information will be available at < <http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/>
http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/>. 

ISOC DAY and AfPIF Conference

The Internet Society will be organizing an ISOC DAY on 12thMay and African
Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) on 18th May 2012 in conjunction
with the AfNOG 14and  AfriNIC 16 meetings in Serrekunda, Gambia. The
conference will discuss the situation of Internet Interconnection in Africa,
the challenges as well as the solutions, including Internet Exchange Points.

The meeting agenda will be available in due course.

Visa Requirements

Citizens of certain countries require a visa to enter Gambia. Please check
with the Gambia Embassy or Consulate in your country

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