[afnog] Introducing Southern Africa Network Operators Group - SAFNOG

[Seun Ojedeji]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:57 PM, JP <froztbyte at froztbyte.net> wrote:

> On 28 Jan 2014, at 1:25 PM, Kevin Chege <chege at isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings to you all.
> >
> > We would like to take this opportunity to introduce to
> > you a new network operators group, SAFNOG.
> > SAFNOG stands for Southern Africa Network Operators
> > Group. As you might guess, it is a NOG for the Southern
> > African region, with a vision to hold meetings in a
> > different Southern African country each year. SAFNOG, of
> > course, is open to the entire world as well.
> > Details about SAFNOG, and how to subscribe to the SAFNOG
> > mailing list can be found at:
> >          www.safnog.org
> > SAFNOG will be holding its first operational and
> > technical meeting - SAFNOG-1 - on 22nd & 23rd April,
> > 2014, at the Sandton Hilton hotel in Johannesburg, South
> > Africa. More details on this to follow in upcoming
> > messages and on the web site.
>
> I'll put this as non-offensively as I can manage, but: why bother?
>
> 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.
>

+1 Perhaps It will be good to hear/understand reason behind this
initiative(considering that this was sent from isoc.org 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 :)).
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.
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.

Cheers!

>
> -J
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