[AfrICANN-discuss] Fwd: AfNOG 2012 ANNOUNCEMENT - ENGLISH

Sat Dec 3 19:24:13 SAST 2011

AFNOG-13 AND AFRINIC-16: MEETINGS 6 - 18 MAY, 2012 

The African
Network Operators' Group (AfNOG) and the African Network Information
Centre (AfriNIC) are pleased to announce that the 12th AfNOG Workshop &
Meeting and the AfriNIC-14 Meeting would be held in Serekunda, Gambia
from 6th - 18th  May 2012. Every year, hundreds of Network Engineers
from across the IT industry in the Africa Continent world attend the
Annual AfNOG Event._"While AfNOG fuels the rapid growth of Internet in
Africa with trained technical capacity, our content has been determined
by the needs of the community. In so doing AfNOG's output training
capacity has multiplied in the past decade and the community
flourished"_ 

ABOUT THE ENTIRE EVENT 

AfNOG and AfriNIC are jointly
organizing a two-week event that includes the AfNOG Workshop on Network
Technology (offering advanced training in a week-long hands-on
workshop), several full-day Advanced Tutorials, a one-day AfNOG Meeting,
and a two-day AfriNIC Meeting.  

In addition, several side meetings and
workshops will be hosted in collaboration with other organizations. 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND 

Network engineers in the Africa region who wish to
acquire the necessary skill in IT must can attend this Workshop. 

LOCAL
HOST 

The Local Host for AfNOG 2012 is QCell) 

TIME TABLE 

Unix Boot
Camp - 6 May 2012 (Sunday) 

AfNOG Workshop - 7 - 11 May 2012 (Monday -
Friday  

CERT Training (AAF/AfREN) - 7 - 12 May 2012 (Monday -
Saturday) 

AfriNIC RIM (LIR) - 12 May 2012 (Saturday)  

ISOC Standards
Day - 12 May 2012 (Saturday) 

AfriNIC IPv6 - 12 - 13 May 2012 (Saturday
- Sunday) 

AfricaCERTCybersecurity Day - 13 May 2012 (Sunday) 

AfNOG
Tutorials - 13 - 14 May 2012 (Sunday - Monday) 

AfREN Meeting / AAF -
14 May 2012 (Monday) 

AfNOG -13 Meeting - 15 May 2012 (Tuesday)

AfriNIC-15 Meeting - 16 - 18 May 2012 (Wednesday to Friday) 

AfPIF -
18 May 2012 (Friday) 

AfGWG - 18 May 2012 (Friday) 

 Venue & Hotel

Venue & hotel for the event will be announced shortly.  

ABOUT AFNOG

AfNOG (See ) [1] is a forum for cooperation and the exchange of
technical information between operators of Internet-connected networks
in Africa. AfNOG has organized an event like this one every year since
2000. 

ABOUT AFRINIC 

AfriNIC (See ) [2] is a Regional Internet
Registry (RIR), responsible for Internet Number resources Management in
the Africa region. AfriNIC organizes two Public Policy meetings every
year (see ). 

AFNOG WORKSHOP ON NETWORK TECHNOLOGY 

The AfNOG Workshop
on Network Technology aims to offer advanced training to people who are
in the process of developing and enhancing an Internet-connected network
with regional and international connectivity. The target audience
includes senior and mid-level technical staff of commercial Internet
service providers (ISPs), academic networks, government networks, or NGO
networks. 

This workshop builds on the experience of previous AfNOG
workshops held annually from 2000 to 2010 in eleven different African
countries, and also the Internet Society's INET workshops, held annually
from 1993 to 2000 at eight locations around the world. The workshop's
instructors are an international team with many years of experience
operating large networks and teaching about network operations. 

The
workshop is divided into Six parallel tracks: 

 	* SS-E - Scalable
Internet Services (in English), focused on the design and operation of
email, web, and other Internet services, in ways that can scale to
handle large numbers of end users. 
 	* SI-E - Scalable Network
Infrastructure (in English), focused on the design and operation of
networks using routers and switches, in ways that can scale to handle
large numbers of interconnected sites. 
 	* NM - Network Monitoring &
Management (English) 
 	* AR - Advanced Routing Techniques (English) 

	* CT - CERT Training (English) 
 	* SI-F - Network Monitoring &
Management (en francais), similar to track NM-E, but given in French.

WORKSHOP APPLICATION INFORMATION IS AT :

http://www.afnog.org/applications/online_application_en.php [4]

http://www.afnog.org/applications/online_application_fr.php [5] 

**WORKSHOP DEADLINE - 20TH JANUARY, 2012 

AFREN / AFRICA ASIA FORUM

The Africa Research and Education Networking (AfREN) and Africa Asia
Forum community (AAF) will be holding a one day meeting on 14 May 2012.
The meeting will discuss issues of interest to the NREN community such
as coordination on activites in the region, advocacy, bandwidth
consortia, regional RENs etc. 

 Additional information on AfREN /AAF
2012 will be provided shortly.  

AFNOG TUTORIALS 

AfNOG will offer 1
to 2 full-day(s) tutorials on advanced topics. 

 Tutorials take place
in a classroom-style environment, and may include a hands-on practical
component. Tutorials are non-commercial in nature, and most are
technically oriented. They are intended to offer advanced training on
technology already deployed or soon to be deployed on networking and
related services provisioning for ISP operations. 

Additional
information about AfNOG 2012 Tutorials will be available here shortly: 

13TH AFNOG MEETING 

The 13th AfNOG meeting will be held in Serekunda,
Gambia 15 May 2012. AfNOG conferences provide a forum for the
coordination and dissemination of technical information related to
backbone/enterprise networking technologies and operational practices.
The meetings are informal, with an emphasis on relevance to current and
future African backbone engineering practices. The AfNOG 2011 conference
in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania drew over 203 participants, mainly consisting
of network engineering staff from national service providers, and
members of the research and education community. 

 Additional
information and the Conference schedule will be available here shortly:

AFRINIC-16 MEETING 

The AfriNIC-16 meeting will be held in Serekunda,
Gambia for three days from 16 - 18 May, 2012. AfriNIC Meetings are open
to everyone and provide an excellent opportunity to take part in
Internet policy discussions. These policies, which describe how Internet
Number Resources should be managed and distributed, are developed by the
community. The meeting will include tutorials, presentations, update on
the various working groups and the AfriNIC Public Policy Meeting. The
two day meeting will be preceeded by a two-day IPv6 training. The
meeting will focus on the IPv6 protocol and its deployment, especially
in Africa and the issue of the exhaustion of the IPv4 pool of address
space. There will be an opportunity to discuss the challenges which our
region will be facing with IPv4 address space exhaustion. 

 Further
information will be available at .  

ISOC DAY AND AFPIF CONFERENCE

The Internet Society will be organizing an ISOC DAY on 12thMay and
African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) on 18th May 2012 in
conjunction with the AfNOG 14and AfriNIC 16 meetings in Serrekunda,
Gambia. The conference will discuss the situation of Internet
Interconnection in Africa, the challenges as well as the solutions,
including Internet Exchange Points.  

The meeting agenda will be
available in due course. 

VISA REQUIREMENTS 

Citizens of certain
countries require a visa to enter Gambia. Please check with the Gambia
Embassy or Consulate in your country 

Links:
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[1]
http://www.afnog.org/
[2] http://www.afrinic.net/
[3]
http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/
[4]
http://www.afnog.org/applications/online_application_en.php
[5]
http://www.afnog.org/applications/online_application_fr.php
[6]
http://www.afnog.org/afnog2012/tutorial/
[7]
http://www.afnog.org/afnog2012conference/
[8]
http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/
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