[afrinic-discuss] Africa 's Internet Community to gather in Nairobi in May

[Eric Osiakwan]

Dear Barry and all,

First, let me admit that there is a competition on the 18th between the ISOC INET Africa Day and the African Internet Forum and we are interested in resolving this on a mutal basis so that we dont do disservice to our community. However the fact remains that both events were not announced until now. If we knew about the ISOC INET Africa day we would not have scheduled a meeting to coincide with it.

Finally, i think it helps our community if we desist from accusations and the labelling of who is relevant or irrelevant because this task of liberating our continent CANNOT be done by one person or instituion. We need rather to unit our forces and be strategic as regional institutions with the resolve to co-operate and co-ordinate. 

Eric here


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Barry Greene \(bgreene\)" <bgreene at cisco.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 11:52:23 -0800

>
>So, we have overlap and competition:
>
>7-12 May 2006 (Sunday - Friday)     AfNOG Workshop
>13 May (Saturday)                   [Blank]
>14 May (Sunday)                     AfNOG Tutorials
>15 May (Monday)                     AfNOG Meeting 
>16 May (Tuesday)                    AfriNIC Meeting
>17 May (Wednesday)                  AfriNIC Meeting
>18 May (Thursday)                   ISOC INET Africa Day
>                                    African Internet Forum
>19 May (Friday)                     African Internet Forum
>                                    AfrISPA AGM
>                                    (Vendor Workshop?)
>
>
>Sound like it is time for you to get a 'Arf-*' forum just like there is
>an AP* forum. Otherwise the in-fighting is going to do a diservice to
>all the consituents who come for that week.
>

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