[afnog] Fwd: SAFNOG-1: Agenda & Program Now Full, Meeting Three Weeks Away Now! - Reminder

[Mark Tinka]

Hello all.

With three weeks to go to SAFNOG-1, this is the 1st of 5 
reminders for you to register your attendance and participation. 
Your registration will help us better prepare logistics for 
you such as delegate badges, meeting catering, your complimentary 
opening and closing social events, give-away material, e.t.c.

To register, please follow the link below:

        https://safnog-1.eventbrite.com/

To see all currently registered participants that are attending 
SAFNOG-1, please follow the link below:

        http://www.safnog.org/meetings-future/attendee-list-safnog-1.html

The final agenda & program can be found here:
        
        http://www.safnog.org/meetings-future/agenda-2014-safnog-1.html

And lastly, the "RIPE Atlas Project: What This Means To You"
presentation, which will be given by Nishal Goburdhan of ISPA, 
will feature Nishal giving away RIPE Atlas hardware probes 
which you can all take back with you and deploy in your own 
networks to help improve measurement and telemetry of the global 
Internet infrastructure.

We look forward to seeing you all in Johannesburg.

Mark Tinka
On Behalf of the SAFNOG Management Committee

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Subject: SAFNOG-1: Agenda & Program Now Full, Meeting Three Weeks Away Now!
Date: Tuesday, April 01, 2014, 04:44:25 PM
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu>
To: afnog at afnog.org

Hello all.

The SAFNOG-1 agenda and program is now full!

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody 
from the Internet community that submitted their presentations 
for SAFNOG's first-ever meeting.

The agenda will cover various operational topics, including:

	- State of IP address resources in & around Africa
	- SDN & NFV
	- Peering
	- Cloud networking
	- Internet security
	- DoS & DDoS mitigation
	- Data centre & data centre bridging technologies
	- MPLS
	- IETF operations
	- Submarine optical cable systems
	- Ethernet & Carrier Ethernet
	- Research & Education network operations
	- IPv6 & IPv6-only networking
	- BGP
	- CDN's & content development for Africa
	- Network measurements and telemetry
	- MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum)

The agenda will also have two very noteworthy keynote 
speakers - Kai U. Wulff of Google, and Ali Resting of Real 
Image Internet.

To view the full agenda, along with the bios and profiles 
of our very distinguished set of speakers, please follow 
this link:

	http://www.safnog.org/meetings-future/agenda-2014-safnog-1.html

SAFNOG-1 will also feature community networking opportunities, 
with an Opening Cocktail Social at the end of Day 1, and a Closing 
Dinner Social at the end of Day 2. All registered participants are 
cordially invited to each of these social events, compliments of
SAFNOG and each social's sponsors.

In case you haven't yet registered to attend SAFNOG-1, please do 
so at your earliest opportunity, via the link below:

	https://safnog-1.eventbrite.com/

Travel information for participants coming to SAFNOG-1 is also 
available here:

http://www.safnog.org/meetings-future/travel-information-2014-safnog-1.html

For any other information about SAFNOG, and SAFNOG-1, please follow 
this link:

	http://www.safnog.org/

We look forward to seeing you all in Johannesburg.

Mark Tinka
On Behalf of the SAFNOG Management Committee

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