[afnog] Hackathon

[Kofi ANSA AKUFO]

Sounds interesting Logan,

Perhaps the theme should focus on leveraging current hot technologies that
will enable us to be at par with our colleagues on other continents.

See a few suggestions below to consider ...

Many organisations have managed to migrate and or deploy some form of cloud
infrastructure in our region but are just realizing 13% - 18% of the full
benefits of their infrastructure.
  ==>. Now we should focus on assisting the community to tune their systems
to reap the remaining 82% "*Increasing agility — reducing server and
application provisioning from 1 - 2 days to 3 minutes as well as reducing
operational costs by say 85%*" .

So lets focus on digesting projects like openstack and its components -
which are gradually taking center stage as well as leverage configuration
management and automation tools like puppet and containers.

... And whilst we are at this it will be great to see the R&D and Training
departments of our NOGs as well as AfriNIC to collect data on such
deployments and revise their training to be integral to that respect.

The continent is relatively more connected now compared to 3-4 years ago.
We should fully exploit these gains:
- Building container lab frameworks where our community members can hold
online network design training and competitions. [Your hackathon could be
delivered on this platform :)  and become a more regular activity rather
than a one time event]
- Collaborate more with NREN to develop online course contents and seed
research in our universities.
- deliver some of our trainings like IPv6 through how they fit into new
paradigms like application staging and provisioning through containers.

The cloud paradigm and its associated driving technologies is *a reality
now* NOT VIRTUAL :) and we should exploit it to the fullest.

CHALLENGE: It will be interesting to see an integrated RPK, IPv4 and IPv6
 configuration training delivered as part of an online labs platform.
Participants should be able to spin up and create their own setups - throw
network orchestrations (SDN and NFV) into the configs, simulate on premises
cloud, demo best practices, guides and propositions by operators of
required feature development assistance ....  most important use it to
teach the very same technologies powering the labs.

The impact of such online collab lab (sponsored of course by benevolent
members of NOGs in our region) on RICH training content creation and
achievement  of set awareness targets in relatively short time span.

Times are changing and such labs and services should be available as
critical platforms for ICT development in our region.

cheers

K.



On 13 June 2016 at 11:44, Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After AIS in Botswana, I was wondering if there might be some interest
> to organize a Hackathon for the next meeting in Mauritius.
>
> In order for it to work, we would need
>
> 1) A room with Internet and stable electricity (3 days, non-stop, 10
> hours of intense coding)
> 2) Low noise level, and restricted room access so that participants can
> focus.
> 3) People familiar with coding in languages such as Python/Perl and C,
> and who are willing to spare some time ahead of the hackathon to brush
> up their skills, so that they can hit the hackathon with some kind of
> code. In my experience organizing various hackathons in Mauritius,
> it's better to have an idea ahead of time, and already having some
> code written before coming so that you can quickly iron out the bugs,
> and improve code steadily.
>
> TOPIC: DNS, DNSSEC, BGP, SMTPS, TLS, <insert your idea here>
>
> We would need at least 3 hackers as a start.
>
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