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NSRC Personnel Activities Around the World
2026 Upcoming Activities
June
June 18: NSRC volunteers and staff will lead a tutorial on Network Monitoring and Management as part of the AfNOG 2026 pre-AIS event to be held in Nairobi, Kenya. The Africa Internet Summit will be held from June 22-26.
June 22-26: NSRC will assist the Tanzania Network Operators Group (TZNOG), and the Tanzania Education and Research Network (TERNET) with support from the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA), and the Tanzania Internet Service Providers Association (TISPA) with two week-long workshops. The workshops will include Routing Infrastructure & Security Operations Workshop (RISO) as well as the Campus Network Design and Operations Workshop (CNDO) to be held from June 22-26 at the King Jada Hotel in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. NSRC contractors Patrick Okui and Brian Candler will lead the trainings with assistance from Sebastian Buettrich, Philip Paeps and local engineers Noah Maina and Simon Balthazar.
July
July 6-10: NSRC will lead a course on DNS/DNSSEC and KINDNS with Champika Wijayatunga of ICANN joining as part of the PacNOG 37 meeting, conference and educations workshops, to be held in Suva, Fiji.
August
August 18-20: NSRC and RouteViews collaborators Patrick Okui will present at the AFPIF 2026 African Peering Forum and Connections meeting to be held in Kigali, Rwanda.
August 18-21: NSRC will be teaching a Train the Trainer workshop with the Bhutanese (Druk) Research & Education Network (DrukREN) with support from Asi@Connect in Thimphu, Bhutan.
August 23-28: As a result of the NSRC Train the Trainer program to be held August 18-21, local trainers will assist NSRC staff and coordinators to teach workshops on Unix/Linux Infrastructure Operations as well as Practical Cybersecurity for Internet Operators as part of the btNOG13 Workshops and Conference. Workshops will be held from August 23-27, and the btNOG Conference day will be August 28th, in Thimphu, Bhutan.
September
September 7-11: NSRC will teach a workshop on Campus Network Design and Operations (CNDO) with additional emphasis on implementation of Eduroam in association with the Zimbabwe Research & Education Network (ZimREN) in Harare, Zimbabwe. Post workshop direct engineering assistance may take place starting September 12 or 13.
September 15-18: NSRC instructors and friends Philip Smith and Tashi Phuntsho (Flexoptix) will teach a 3-day workshop on BGP Deployment Operations Workshop with Peering emphasis during the third Timor-Leste Network Operators' Group (TLNOG) workshop and conference to be held from September 15-18 in Dili, Timor-Leste.
September 28-October 1: During the 8th Mongolia Network Operators Group (mnNOG-8) workshops and meeting NSRC will teach workshops on Cloud Virtualization and ProxMox as well as Campus Network Design and Operations. The event will be held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
2026 Completed Activities
May
May 20-30: NSRC took part in BKNIX Peering Forum - ThaiNOG Day (May 25-26). NSRC taught two workshops as part of the event. Philip Smith from NSRC delivered a BGP Deployment and Operations Workshop (May 20–23), as well as the BGP Peering and IXP Workshop (May 27–30).
May 18-22: NSRC attended the RIPE 92 Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland.
May 19-21: NSRC conducted a Virtualization Workshop at the Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand in partnership with ThaiREN.
May 15: Philip Paeps provided a RouteViews Project Update during the TWNOG 7 event held in Taipei, Taiwan.
May 5-8: NSRC collaborators Anna Secka Saine, Alain Aina, Simon Balthazar and Patrick Okui lead a Practical Cybersecurity for Internet Operators Workshop held in Livingstone, Zambia.
April
Apr 27-May 4: The NSRC team of Brian Candler, Dale Smith, Philip Paeps and Sebastian Buettrich taught a Campus Network Design and Operations Workshop and provided Direct Engineering Assistance to support the Nepal Research and Education Network - NREN.
Apr 21-23 : As part of the ZANOG@iWeek 2026 program, Tashi Phuntsho from NSRC provided a presentation on "Securing Internet Routing" (with updates on RouteViews) during the meeting.
March
Mar 23-27 : At NZNOG 2026 in Christchurch, New Zealand, Philip Smith of the NSRC lead the BGP Intermediate Operations & Best Practices.
Mar 9-13 : Dale Smith, Hervey Allen, Jose Santiago and Philip Smith conducted a CNDO Workshop for PREGINET as part of Asi@Connect. The workshop was hosted by the Mariano Marcos State University.
February
Feb 21-27 : Steve Huter, Hans Kuhn, Owen Conway from NSRC attended AIMS-19 , including the Hackathon (Feb 21-22) and the Meeting (Feb 23-27).
Feb 4-12: NSRC staff and contractors taught workshops, a tutorial, and give a presentation at APRICOT 2026, alongside the APNIC 61 conference. Hervey Allen, Brian Candler, and Carlos Armas taught the Practical Virtualization with Hybrid Strategies Workshop, while Philip Paeps and Tashi Phuntsho lead the Practical Cybersecurity for Internet Operators Workshop. Philip Paeps lead a Git for everyone Tutorial and Nina Bargisen presented a Routeviews Update.
January
Jan 15-21 : Steve Huter from NSRC attended the TPRE/PTC'26 Meetings to be held in Hawaii, United States.
Jan 26-28 : NSRC instructors Alain Alina, Philip Paeps, and Simon Balthazar conducted a DNS Workshop for the International University of Management. The workshop was held virtually.
