[AfriNIC-announce] Call for presentation proposals for AfriNIC-13

[Adiel A. Akplogan]

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the "Call for Presentations, Tutorials,
and Demonstrations" for the AfriNIC-13 Public Policy meeting to be held
in Johannesburg, South Africa, 20-26 November 2010 is now open.

This is your call to present at this event and join other presenters
to deliver tools, knowledge, and know-how or policy ideas related to
Internet Number Resource Management or IP networking operations to
participants.

Your contribution can be in the form of a presentation during a session,
a tutorial or a live technical demonstration. If you are interested in
presenting, please follow the submission instructions below.

How to submit:

Please review all information included on this page before submitting
your proposal. Your submission should be sent to: meeting at afrinic.net

Your proposal should contain the following information:
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* Full Name
* Email Address
* Affiliation
* Short biography
* Title of Presentation
* A detailed abstract or outline describing the presentation
* Draft slides for the presentation (if ready/available)
* Length of talk (minutes/hours/days)
* Need (or not) for sponsorship or assistance to attend the meeting
  (travel and/or accommodation, etc)

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Important Dates:

* Meeting Registration opens – 01 September 2010
* Deadline for submissions - 20 September 2010
* Notification of Acceptance - 01 October 2010

Guidelines:

Presentation topics can range from but are not exclusive to:

- IPv6 deployment
- Security
- IDN
- Mobile IP
- IXP
- DNSSEC

* Presentations will be fifteen (15) to thirty  (30) minutes in length,
  with approximately  10-15 minutes for Q&A at the end of each
  presentation. The maximum time allotted per presentation will not
  exceed is 45 minutes. The presenter(s) will be required to submit
  their presentation in PowerPoint 2 weeks prior to the event date.

* Tutorials can range from 90 minutes to half a day in length. A full
  course outline is required.

* Demonstration facilities will need to be agreed based on available
  resources on-site.

* AfriNIC will provide the space, tea/lunch breaks and projector
  equipment.

* Presenters will be responsible for any handouts. There are typically
  approximately 100-150 delegates.

* All presentations will be delivered with the highest professionalism
  to maximize the value obtained by the attendee.

* The Meeting Coordination team and the program Committee will make the
  selection decisions.

* Selected presenters will be contacted by the Events Coordinator to
  coordinate logistics and details

* Note that proposals are reviewed and accepted on an on-going basis and
  that presentation slots may be filled prior to this date.

The audience at AfriNIC meetings is mainly composed of technical network
operators and engineers with a wide range of experience levels from
beginners to seasoned professionals.

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*** Presentations that contain any sort of marketing and commercial
    content are usually not encouraged at such meetings.
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Thank you for your contribution.

Kind regards,

AfriNIC-13 Meeting team
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