[afnog] Afnog 2008 Call for Presentations

[Isatou Secka Jah]

AfNOG 2008 Tutorials and Conference:
Call for Presentations
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The African Network Operators' Group (AfNOG) invites applications from 
people who wish to teach a tutorial, make a presentation, or chair a 
panel discussion at the 8th AfNOG meeting in Rabat, Morocco, in May 
2008. We also invite programme suggestions from other people.

Background
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AfNOG and AfriNIC are jointly organising a two-week event that includes 
the AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology (offering advanced training in 
a week-long hands-on workshop), several full-day Tutorials, a one-day 
AfNOG meeting, and a two-day AfriNIC meeting. Further information about 
the event may be found at <http://www.afnog.org/afnog2008/> and 
<http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/>.

Venue
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The workshop and all tutorials would be held at the EMI (Mohammadia 
Engineering Institute, http://www.emi.ac.ma) from 24 May - 2 June 2008.

All Conferences would be held at the Golden Tulip Farah 
(http://www.goldentulipfarahrabat.com) from 3 - 6 June 2008.

About AfNOG
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AfNOG (see <http://www.afnog.org/>) is a forum for cooperation and the 
exchange of technical information between operators of 
Internet-connected networks in Africa. AfNOG has organised an event like 
this one every year since 2000.

About the Tutorials & Conference
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The AfNOG Conference takes the form of a series of short presentations 
followed by open discussions, during which network operators from around 
the continent share experiences, discuss problems and their solutions as 
well as interact on various issues affecting African networking.

The conference has in the past attracted over 200 participants, mainly 
consisting of engineering staff from national service providers, 
managers from IT Enterprises and members of the research and education 
community.

Several tutorials will be offered before the AfNOG conference from 1 - 2 
June 2008. Tutorials are technical workshops which focus on a particular 
subject in-dept and should be non-commercial in nature. Tutorials take 
place in a classroom-style environment, and may include a hands-on 
practical component. They are intended to offer advanced training 
relating to technology already deployed or soon to be deployed on 
networking and related services provisioning for ISP operations.

Potential Areas of Interest
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Conference:

    * Routing Operations: Rural Connectivity Solution, IPv4 and IPv6 
Routing, MPLS, Backbone operations, Traffic Engineering
    * Services Operations: DNS, Email, VOIP, Content Development, Open 
Source Tools and Analysis
    * Security Operations: NSP-Sec, DDoS, Security Operations, 
Anti-SPAM, Anti-Malware.
    * Internet Provider Relationships: IXP Operations, Peering
    * Technologies: Wireless, WiMax, DSL, Broadband access aggregation
    * Internet Governance

Tutorials:
    * Network Monitoring and Management
    * Wireless Networking
    * Advanced Routing

How to apply
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People interested in making a presentation, or chairing a panel 
discussion at the AfNOG meeting are invited to submit a proposal not 
later than 7 December 2007

We ask that the following information be sent in an email message to 
<afnog-presentations08 at afnog.org>.

    * speaker/presenter name and affiliation
    * email address and phone number
    * nature of the proposal (conference presentation, panel discussion, 
or tutorial)
    * proposed title
    * requested time allocation (for conference presentations or panel 
discussions: 30 minutes to 2 hours).
    * an abstract of no more than 200 words
    * permission to reproduce your presentation after the event, 
including permission to post it on the AfNOG website.

The Programme Committee also welcomes suggestions and expressions of 
interest, even if you don't have all the above information.

Funding and Support

AfNOG is a not-for-profit event and because limited funds are available, 
conference presenters and tutorial instructors are expected to cover 
their travel expenses. However, tutorial instructor or conference 
presenters are exempted from paying registration fees.

Deadlines
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Submission deadline:      7 December 2007
Notification by:          31 January 2008
Final Program Published:  1 March 2008     
Send Requests to:          afnog-presentations08 at afnog.org