Where was the NSRC in 2013
NSRC Staff and Volunteer Activities Around the World
December
December 9-11: The NSRC lead a 3-day workshop on
Network Management Tools for NREN NOCs
as part of the ASREN 2013 e-AGE conference held
in Tunis, Tunisia.
December 2-6: The NSRC taught workshops on Security and
Campus Network Design and
coordinated engineering assistance during the PacNOG 14 event held in Suva, Fiji.
November
November 25-29: NSRC Staff taught a workshop on
Network Monitoring and Management at the
Asia Institute of Technology (AIT) as well as provided direct
engineering assistance on network management and wireless to AIT staff. This event took place in
Bangkok, Thailand.
November 19-20: Steve Song of the NSRC visited the Tak region of Thailand with colleagues
from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and support of the
National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission of Thailand (NBTC)
to study possible TV White Spaces deployments in the region.
November 18: Steve Song of the NSRC spoke at the
Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) Global Summit
held on the 18th of November in Bangkok, Thailand at the IMPACT Exhibition Center.
November 9-15: NSRC staff presented, coordinated and taught a five day
Train the Trainers workshop before and during the
UbuntuNet-Connect 2013 event that took place in Kigali, Rwanda.
October
October 30-Nov 1: NSRC Staff Dale Smith and Dean Pemberton attended the
TEIN4 Myanmar workshop and NREN Discussion that took place
in Nay Phi Tawon, Myanmar.
October 28-31: NSRC staff taught a 4-day workshop on
Advanced Routing, BGP and IXPs in
French and English in Agadir, Morocco in conjuntion with the Moroccon Research and Education Network
MARWAN.
October 24: NSRC staff were present during the public roundtable discussion and debut of a
new documentary and translation of a book on the National Historic Police Archives of Guatemala held
as part of the University of Oregon
Philip H. Knight Dean of Libraries Distinguished Speaker Series
held in the Knight Library, Eugene, Oregon.
October 23-25: NSRC staff and contractors traveled to the UCSD campus in San Diego, CA to hold a
discussion on Wireless Sensor Networks with Tony Fountain Director of the Cyberinfrastructure Lab for
Environmental Observing Systems at the University of Califorinia San Diego.
October 21-25: The NSRC supported and documented the 2013 AfNOG Chix Senegal
workshops held in Dakar, Senegal.
October 20-23: NSRC staff Sebastian Buettrich and ICTP staff members Marco Zennaro and
Ermanno Pietrosemoli presented a tutorial on Building Afordable Community Networks at the
2013 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) held
in San Jose, CA, USA.
October 14-18: NSRC staff and instructors from Nicaragua and Colombia coordinated and taught
in workshops on Network Monitoring and Management
and Campus Network Design as well as speaking
about network connectivity in the last connected regions of the world during the
WALC 2013 workshops and conference held in Managua, Nicaragua
at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería.
October 1-5: NSRC staff Philip Regnauld and Alain Aina taught a workshop on
DNS Operations and Security in French
for the African Top Level Domain (AfTLD) assocation
and in conjuncion with ICANN in Tana, Madagascar.
September
September 11-19: The NSRC helped sponsor a TV White Spaces deployment with the Telecommunications
regulator in Malawi and with staff from the Internaional Centre for Theoretical Physics
(ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. The deployment successfully provided wireless
network access for sensors that are part of the AfricaArray
project.
September 3-6: Steve Song of the NSRC spoke about TV White Spaces at the 14th Forum on Telecom/ICT
Regulation and Partnership in Africa (FTRA 2013) event
held in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.
August
August 19-23: Dale Smith of the NSRC attended
the APAN 36 meeting which was held in Daejeon, Korea.
August 12-16: NSRC staff Carlos Armas, Joe Abley and Alain Aina worked with Max Henry Larson
of l’Université d’Etat d’Haïti to teach a
Network Monitoring and Management workshop in
both French and English as part of a LACNIC sponsored event in Port
au Prince, Haiti.
August 5-13: Phil Regnauld of the NSRC and Alvaro Vives, NSRC Volunteer, taught a 5-day workshop
on DNS Operations, DNS Security and Network Monitoring at the SANOG 22
held in Mumbai, India.
July
July 27-Aug 2: The NSRC assisted with coordination, monetary support and instructors at
the innaugural Tanzanian Network Operators Group meeting
held in Arusha, Tanzania. Topics included a 1/2 day Introduction to Linux, a 5-day Network Monitoring
and Management workshop and a 5-day Network and Systems Security workshop. NSRC staff and volunteers were
Brian Candler, Patrick Okui, Merike Kaeo, Dean Pemberton and Cleven Mmari of the University of Oregon.
July 26-August 3: Hans Kuhn of the NSRC attended the IETF 87
meeting in Berlin, Germany to assist with network setup and provided support during the event.
July 15-17: Hervey Allen and Phil Regnauld taught a
3 day hands-on Network Monitoring and Management workshop as
part of the Indiana University, InCNTRE Summer of Networking program.
July 8-12: NSRC staf Dale Smith and Andy Linton traveled to
the University of Guam to assist with Network Planning.
July 1-5: NSRC staff Dean Pemberton and volunteer Jon Brewer coordinated, taught and presented at the
PacNOG 13 meeting held in Nukuʻalofa, Tonga. The NSRC
provided organization, monetary and materials support for the event.
June
June 18-22: The NSRC coordinated and sponsored 5 days of direct engineering assistance at
Copperbelt University in Kitwe, Zambia in cooperation with the
Zambian Research and Education Network (ZAMREN), the
UbuntuNet Alliance and engineers Ermanno Pietrosemoli, Marco
Zennaro and Carlo Fonda of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
(ICTP) and Sebastian Buettrich of NSRC.
June 9-21: The initial Africa Internet Summit (AIS)
took place in Lusaka, Zambia. This was a consortium of meetings, including the
African Network Operators Group annual workshops, AfriNIC 18,
AfREN, AfGWG, AfricaCert Cybersecurity Day and more. The NSRC provided monetary and organizational
support as well as coordination and teaching in several workshops and tutorials and presented during
several of the meetings.
June 6-9: The NSRC supported the 25th Anniversary of .TH
(Thailand) from June 6-9, including sponsoring participation by Olak Kolkman, Chief Executive of
NLnet Labs and Andy Linton of the NSRC. From June 7-9 the NSRC coordinated
and taught in a DNSSEC Workshop
as part of the .TH 25 year anniversary event at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in
Bangkok, Thailand.
May
May 29-31: NSRC staff Steven Huter, Steve Song and Sebastian Buettrich attended a 3-day meeting on
TV White Spaces sponsored by Google held in Dakar, Senegal.
May 20-July 26: The NSRC supported attendance, travel and room and board to the Indiana University
Summer of Networking for Pamela Pomary, Network Engineer
from the University of Ghana, Legon, Mr. Emmanuel Mukwesa, Network
Engineer for the Zambia Research and Education Network (ZAMREN) and
Ronald Osure, Assistant Applications Director for the Kenya Education Network (KENET).
May 13-15: NSRC staff Steven Huter and Dale Smith traveled to Accra, Ghana for meetings with
Ghanaian Academic and Research Network (GARNET) staff.
April
April 25-26: NSRC staff Steve Huter, Dale Smith and Hervey Allen joined and sponsored CNRST network engineers Youness Hamidi and Redouane Merrouch from Morocco, Joseph Kimaili from the UbuntuNet Alliance and Kennedy Aseda and Josphat Karanja from the Kenya Education Network (KENET)
for a site visit to the Indiana University GlobalNOC facilities in Indianapolis, Indiana., as
well as a visit to the Cyberinfrastructure Building and data center
on the University of Indiana main campus in Bloomington, Indiana.
April 22-26: Phil Regnauld from the NSRC and Richard Lamb from ICANN
taught a DNSSEC workshop for the
Agence Tunisienne d'Internet (ATI) at the Mövenpick Hotel Gammarth, Tunis, Tunisia.
April 21-24: NSRC staff Dale Smith attended the
2013 Internet2 Annual Meeting held
in Arlington, Virginia. In addition the NSRC funded travel to the meeting for Moroccan Network
Engineers Youness Hamidi and Redouane Merrouch from CNRST (Centre National
pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique), Joseph Kimaili from the UbuntuNet Alliance and
Kennedy Aseda from the Kenya Education Network (KENET). In addition
Josphat Karanja from KENET joined as well.
April 15-19: The NSRC worked with TENET, the
Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa and taught two parallel workshops at the
Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa. The
two workshops were Campus Network
Design and Security and Linux System Administration and IP Services.
April 8-11: The NSRC taught an
Advanced Advanced routing, BGP, Peering/Multihoming workshop
to be held in conjunction with the UbuntuNet Alliance in Entebbe,
Uganda. Patrick Okui lead the event for the NSRC with Kevin Chege of ISOC.
March
March 25-29: NSRC staff Phil Regnauld and Amanda Thomsen and University of Oregon Knight
Library staff Duncan Barth, Karen Estlund, Mandi Garcia, Katie Moss traveled to Dakar,
Senegal to the l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) to assist
with continued digitalization of the Senegalese national archives as well as to teach a hands-on
Digitization and Archiving Workshop.
March 19-21: Phil Regnauld from NSRC and Richard Lamb of ICANN in collaboration with ISOC LB taught
a 3-day, hands-on workshop on DNSSEC
in parallel with the ArabNet Beirut meeting that
took place in Beirut, Lebanon at the Berytech venue.
March 11-22: The NSRC supported the The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical
Physics (ICTP)
Workshop on Wireless Networking for Science in Africa
held in Trieste, Italy at the ICTP campus. The NSRC supported Masai Joan Jemutai from the
Kenya Education Network (KENET) as well as Alice Bett and Julius
Kipkemboi from Kenya, Leontine Nkague Nkamba and Alain Pierre Tokam Kamga from Cameroon, Mohamed
Habash from Egypt and Anas Bouayad from Morocco.
March 10-14: Sean McAvoy of RIPE NCC taught
a Network Monitoring and Management
workshop using NSRC materials at the MENOOG 12
meeting and conference that took place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
February
February 28-March 8: NSRC staff worked directly with the University of Computer Studies
(UCSY) in Yangon, Myanmar to teach a
Campus Network Design and Network Monitoring and Management workshop
as well as providing direct engineering assistance to help support the nascent Myanmar research and
education network activities.
February 19-23: NSRC staff Brian Candler, Carlos Armas, Joe Abley, Dale Smith and Carlos Vicente
along with José Domínguez
taught a
Campus Network Design and Network Monitoring and Management
workshop at the University of
Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain,
Trinidad and Tobago as part of Caribbean Knowledge and Learning Network (CKLN)
research and education network program.
February 19-March 1:The NSRC taught a
Network Monitoring and Management workshop,
a 1/2 day DNS/DNSSEC Tutorial and presented
a short Report on PacNOG at the
APRICOT 2013 Conference and workshops held at the
Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore. In addition the NSRC
sponsored several Pacific Island attendees for this event. NSRC staff Phil Regnauld, Hans Kuhn, Hervey
Allen and Steve Huter took part.
January 31-February 4: NSRC staff Phil Regnauld, Andy Linton and Sebastian Buettrich as well
as Dr. Faisal Hasan and GZ Kabir from Bangladesh organized and conducted a
Network Management & Monitoring workshop
at the 21st South Asian Network Operators Group
(SANOG 21) meeting and conference held in Cox's
Bazar, Bangladesh. The NSRC sponsored fellowships to the event for 10 women attendees and 3
University technicians from Afghanistan.
January
January 21-23: Phil Regnauld and Joe Abley taught a
3-day DNSSEC workshop as part of the
NZNOG 2013 Conference and Workshops program held in Wellington,
New Zealand.
January 18-22: NSRC staff attended and presented at the Pacific Telecommunication Council
2013 (PTC 2013) meeting held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
January 13-17: NSRC staff Hervey Allen, Steven Huter, Phil Regnauld and Dale Smith took part in the
TIP 2013 technical meeting (Techs in Paradise)
which included APAN and Internet2 meetings
held at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The
NSRC sponsored Enrique Pelaez, Director of the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral
(ESPOL) in Guyaquil, Ecudaor to attend the APAN meeting. In
addition the NSRC sponsored the following people to join and present at the the Techs in Paradise meeting:
Dr. Faisal Hasan from Bangladesh talked about the Bangladesh Research and Education Network
(BdREN), Dr. Nguyen Hong Van, Director of the Vietnamese
National Research and Education Network (VINAREN), Dr. Ni Lar
Thein, Rector of University of Computer Studies, Yangon (UCSY),
and Dr. Ei Chaw Htoon, UCSY, Myanmar.
