[afnog] Introducing Southern Africa Network Operators Group - SAFNOG

[JP]

On 28 Jan 2014, at 4:51 PM, Joe Abley <jabley at hopcount.ca> wrote:
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> On 2014-01-28, at 08:57, JP <froztbyte at froztbyte.net> wrote:
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>> I’ll put this as non-offensively as I can manage, but: why bother?
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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.
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> We see local groups organising within areas covered by larger, regional groups all over the world. For example,
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>  NZNOG, AusNOG, JPNOG, SANOG, etc vs. APRICOT
>  UKNOF, PLNOG, SWINOG, Internetdagarna, etc vs. RIPE
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> There are plenty of others.

In each of those, I would say that there are high enough skill levels and “density” to make it worthwhile. I think the idea of splitting things up, now, is a bad thing.

-J