[afnog] Hackathon

[abel ELITCHA]

+1 AKUFO,
I can't agree more with you and I fully support the idea.

--Komi

2016-06-14 8:52 GMT+00:00 Kofi ANSA AKUFO <kofi.ansa at gmail.com>:

> 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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