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<div class="gmail_quote">Greetings,
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<div>ISOC and AFRINIC are organizing a Hackathon
to bring together engineers who are interested
in learning about the IETF (Internet
Engineering Task Force) and how IETF standards
can be applied to code. The hackathon looks to
encourage developers to discuss, collaborate
and develop utilities, ideas, sample code and
solutions that show practical implementations
of IETF standards.</div>
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<div>When: Saturday May 27th to Sunday May 28th,
2017</div>
<div>Where: Boma Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya (venue of
the Africa Internet Summit)<br>
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<div>Room: TBD<br>
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<div>Participant Skill Requirements</div>
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Must be comfortable programming in C
(other languages are also a bonus)</div>
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Must have experience working with the
UNIX/Linux Shell</div>
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Knowledge of the <abbr title="Domain
Name System" style="border-bottom:1px
dotted">DNS Protocol</abbr> is a must</div>
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Experience with managing any DNS server </div>
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Familiarity with IPv4 and IPv6</div>
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Understanding of Networking and Client -
Server architecture</div>
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Prior experience with UNIX and Linux
system administration would be a bonus</div>
</li>
</ul>
<div>What you will need to participate</div>
</div>
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Bring a laptop on which you are
comfortable developing software</div>
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You may be required to install additional
software</div>
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Anything else that is required will be
provided, such as Virtual Machines if
needed</div>
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Installing and becoming familiar with
VirtualBox or something similar will help</div>
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Wireless access to the Internet will be
provided</div>
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Team ethic (working as a team to solve a
problem)</div>
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<div><font color="#333333"><span
style="font-size:14px">Preparation</span></font></div>
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Familiarity with the IETF prior to the
event (<a href="http://ietf.org"
target="_blank">http://ietf.org</a>) and
RFCs (<a
href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc.html"
target="_blank">https://www.ietf.org/rfc.html</a><wbr>)</div>
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Familiarity with GitHub prior to the event
would be useful to have (<a
href="http://github.com" target="_blank">http://github.com</a>)</div>
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Online course on DNS and Networking will
be made available to participants prior to
the event</div>
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</ul>
<div><font color="#333333"><span
style="font-size:14px">Post Hackathon
Activities</span></font></div>
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outside;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px">
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Further engagement regarding the IETF
(more on this at the event)</div>
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Invitation to attend or organize an IETF
Hub for the IETF 99 </div>
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Guidance on how to organize similar
hackathons</div>
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<div>Registration details will be sent this week.
Space will be limited.</div>
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<div>Technologies that will be covered in the
Hackthon will be on the Domain Name System (DNS)
and IPv6 and RFCs related to both. </div>
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<div><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard;
font-size: medium;">Please note that there
will be no travel support for this event and
we will not be able to respond to any
related travel funding requests. </span></div>
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