[afnog] Introducing Southern Africa Network Operators Group - SAFNOG

[Seun Ojedeji]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Kevin Chege <chege at isoc.org> wrote:

>  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.
>

Great! i guess the part of your mail that makes it look non-local is what i
quote below:

<chege at isoc.org> wrote:
......As you might guess, it is a NOG for the *Southern African region*
......

Thanks for clarifying, and on a lighter note perhaps that section should be
reworded.

Cheers!

>
>  Kevin
>
>
>   From: Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:43 PM
> To: JP <froztbyte at froztbyte.net>
> Cc: "afnog at afnog.org" <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> 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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