[101717] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Operator Groups Outside the US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen Massar)
Wed Jan 16 07:46:05 2008
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:29:15 +0100
From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
To: Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <71CB284A12EDA54880FF588A8BAC0BE20E4D12@ernie.HiberniaAtlantic.local>
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Rod Beck wrote:
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> 6. I am not aware of any Dutch per se ISP conferences although that=20
> market is certainly quite vibrant.
See http://www.nlnog.net/ though "conferences" is not the case, then=20
again there is RIPE + AMS-IX meetings, who needs more than that :)
Also see http://www.swinog.org for the Swiss Network Operators Group,=20
which I can really recommend for attending meetings as they are a lot of =
fun. (Hint: Generally the meeting is hold in the "Altes TramDepot"=20
(http://www.altestramdepot.ch/) , which is a beer brewery and has a wide =
selection of beers ;)
> I am also disappointed to see the=20
> Canadians and Irish have next to nothing despite Ireland being the=20
> European base of operations for Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Yahoo.=20
Ireland has SAGE-IE (http://www.sysadmin.ie/) which fills in the niche=20
quite well, together with ILUG (http://www.linux.ie/) for related=20
subjects. I think they are quite well covered too :)
Germany btw has CCC Congress + SummerCamp (http://events.ccc.de), thus=20
they are also covered :) Though indeed not 100% ISP events, they are=20
very much related and also a lot of fun.
> 8. Both DEC-IX and AMS-IX have member meetings each year. Not clear how=
=20
> difficult to get invited if you are not a member.
If you are not a member at either of these your network has a problem :)
(Oh and you are missing out on the great AMS-IX parties too!)
Greets,
Jeroen
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