[afnog] Introducing Southern Africa Network Operators Group - SAFNOG

[Kevin Chege]

SAFNOG is not a splinter of AfNOG but rather a localisation effort just like your GHNOGs, NgNOGs etc. There is also East Africa NOG as well (http://eanog.org). All these are just localized efforts to improve the reach and scale of AfNOG and capacity building. AfNOG is and will always be the main NOG and main capacity building event in Africa spanning the entire region.

Kevin


From: Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com<mailto:seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>>
Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:43 PM
To: JP <froztbyte at froztbyte.net<mailto:froztbyte at froztbyte.net>>
Cc: "afnog at afnog.org<mailto:afnog at afnog.org>" <afnog at afnog.org<mailto:afnog at afnog.org>>
Subject: Re: [afnog] Introducing Southern Africa Network Operators Group - SAFNOG

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:57 PM, JP <froztbyte at froztbyte.net<mailto:froztbyte at froztbyte.net>> wrote:
On 28 Jan 2014, at 1:25 PM, Kevin Chege <chege at isoc.org<mailto: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<http://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<http://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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