Where was the NSRC in 2011
NSRC Staff and Volunteer Activities Around the World
December
December 5-16: The NSRC in conjunction with intERLab
of AIT organized workshops on
Campus Network Design and Multicast that
where held at the Centre for Vietnam Research and Education Network (VINAREN)
in Hanoi, Vietnam.
December 5-8: The First West African Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks was
held in Accra, Ghana. NSRC team member Sebastian Buettrich assisted and taught and the NSRC
provided books for the workshop.
December 2-3: Sebastian Buettrich from the NSRC and ICTP
in conjunction with the Assocation of African Universities (AAU)
assisted with wireless network deployment at the University of Ghana,
Legon in Accra, Ghana.
November
November 21-26: The NSRC organized, taught and presented at the
PacNOG 10 workshops and meeting held in Noumea, New Caledonia. Phil
Regnauld and John Kemp taught a workshop on
systems admin, management tools & IP Fundamentals,
as well as presenting on Routviews and Common security issues affecting ccTLDs during the
PacNOG 10 Conference Day.
November 14-19: Hervey Allen, Brian Candler, Kevin Chege and Carlos Vicente from the NSRC as well as
Jens Kuehlers of Google taught a
six-day workshop on Network Monitoring
and Management, IP Address Planning and BGP with the assistance of the African Network Operators
Group (AfNOG). The workshop was held at the Kwame Nkrumah University
of Science Technology (KNUST) campus in Kumasi, Ghana to assist
with the developing Ghanaian Research and Education Network (GARNET).
November 16-18: Dale Smith and Sebastian Büttrich traveled to the
University of Cape Coast in Cape Coast, Ghana to provide on-site,
technical assistance with the campus network and campus wireless design.
November 9-12: The NSRC supported women network engineers from Kenya (Irene Misoi, Phoebe
Mutua, Dorcas Muthoni), Malawi (Chimwemwe Fredrick) and Senegal (Khoudia Gueye SY) to attend the
2011 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference
held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon, USA.
October
October 31-November 4: The NSRC supported a Unix System Administration Workshop for Women
Engineers held in Blantyre, Malawi at the University of Malawi, College of Medicine and held as part
of the AfNOG Chix 2011 Workshop
October 27-30: NSRC staff members Steve Huter, Phil Regnauld and Alain Aina taught a
Network Monitoring and Management
workshop in French held in Dakar, Senegal at l'Université Cheikh
Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD).
October 23-25: Phil Regnauld and Alain Aina of the NSRC and Joe Abley from ICANN taught a
DNS Security workshop
(Local Host Link)
at the ICANN 42 meeting held in Dakar, Senegal.
October 10-14: Hervey Allen, Carlos Vicente and Carlos Armas from the NSRC and José
Domínguez from the University of Oregon organized and taught in multiple workshops
(Gestión de Redes and
Enrutamiento Avanzado y Multicast) at the
WALC 2011 held at La Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral
(ESPOL) in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Steve Huter from the NSRC worked
with the Ecuadoran National Research and Education Network (CEDIA)
and ESPOL during the WALC 2011 event.
October 2-5: Dale Smith and Carlos Vicente attended the
Internet2 Fall Members Meeting. In addition
the NSRC sponsored travel for technicians from Tanzania, Nigeria and Senegal to attend the
meeting and present updates about their respective national R&E network
developments. The meeting took place in Raleigh, North Carolinia, USA.
October 6: Steven Huter and Dale Smith participated in a
Principal Investigators meeting
at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia for the International Research Network
Connections (IRNC) program of the NSF.
September
September: The NSRC supported a Career Workshop for High School girls held in Nairobi, Kenya.
September 14: Alain Aina of the NSRC gave presentations in French on Routing and DNSSEC
Security as well as on Security, a Multi-Layer Problem at the
ISOC INET Cotonou meeting
held in Cotonou, Benin.
September 8-16: The NSRC organized and taught
a Campus Network Design and Deployment workshop
at the SANOG 18 meeting held in Pokhara, Nepal.
August
August 29-September 2: NSRC personnel Hervey Allen, Carlos Armas and Carlos Vicente organized and
taught a Campus Network Design Course in
Spanish in conjunction with RedCLARA and CONCyT in
Guatemala City, Guatemala.
August 5-6: Hervey Allen, Steve Huter, Phil Regnauld and Dale Smith took part in an NCAR/NSF
National Science Foundation Workshop on Science and Cyberinfrastructure
in Africa in Boulder, Colorado.
July
July 9-15: NSRC personnel taught and assisted at the
NG REN-NSRC Network Design Workshop held
at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria, as well as
participating in a campus audit and meeting at the University of Ibadan,
Ibadan, Nigeria.
June
June 27-July 2: NSRC personnel organized, taught and presented during the
PacNOG 9 workshops and meeting held in Suva, Fiji.
June 7-11: The NSRC along with WirelessU and
KENET taught a workshop on
Wireless University and R&E Networking
at the United States International University in Nairobi, Kenya.
May
May 29-June 10: NSRC personnel taught, organized and assisted in a
Network Monitoring and Management workshop,
a DNSSEC and Wireless tutorials and an
Introduction to UNIX/Networking
one-day intensive session at the
AfNOG 12 meeting, workshops and tutorials held in Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania.
May 2-5: Phil Regnauld from the NSRC and Joe Abley of
ICANN organized and taught a
DNSSEC Workshop with the Kenya Network
Information Centre (KENIC) in Nairobi, Kenya.
April
April 18-21: Dale Smith chaired the Emerging NREN Special Interest Group (SIG) as
well as participated on the Internet2 Standing Committee
on International Strategy at the
Spring Internet2 Meeting
held in Washington, D.C. at the World Bank. José Domínguez participated in Caribbean
and Haiti meetings at the same event. Steve Huter, also, attended.
April 2-13: NSRC personnel taught
a Campus Network Design Workshop
in French at l'Université Cheikh
Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD) with a focus on helping to design the
architecture for SnRER - the Senegalese National Research and Education Network. The NSRC team assisted
Senegalese network engineers with campus network audits at universities in Saint Louis and Dakar, to
improve the infrastructure, performance and services in the campus network.
March
March 21-25: Phil Regnauld and Brian Candler worked with the tech staff for the
Association of African Universities in Accra, Ghana assisting with
some upgrades to the AAU network.
March 14-16: Steve Huter attended the ICANN 40
meeting in San Francisco, CA, USA.
February
February 28-March 11: The NSRC supported the 2011 ITU-ICTP Workshop on Applications
of Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring in Developing Countries
(WSN-2011) that took place in Trieste, Italy as part
of the Wireless@ICTP initiative.
February 15-25: NSRC personnel organized and taught a
Network Monitoring and Management workshop,
a Robust and Reliable DNS workshop and
a DNSSEC Tutorial and attended numerous meetings at the
APRICOT 2011/APAN 20 event held in Hong Kong, China.
February 7-11: Sebastian Buettrich of the NSRC took part in
the WirelessU-intERLab-NSRC Wireless Workshop
that took place at intERLab at
the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand.
January
January 26-28: NSRC personnel Dale Smith, José Domínguez and Jeff Hite taught
a Campus Network Design workshop at the
23rd Workshop on UniNet Network and Computer Applications
(WUNCA) held at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand.
January 11-18: NSRC personnel Hervey Allen, Brian Candler and Carlos Vicente taught a
Campus Network Design and Management workshop
at the SANOG 17 meeting held in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
