NSRC Staff and Volunteer Activities Around the World

Upcoming and Current Activities

  • April 21-24: NSRC staff Dale Smith will attend the 2013 Internet2 Annual Meeting to be held in Arlington, Virginia. In addition the NSRC is funding 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 will be joining as well.
  • April 22-26: Phil Regnauld from the NSRC and Richard Lamb from ICANN will teach a DNSSEC workshop for the Tunisian Internet Agency in Tunis, Tunisia.
  • April 25-26: NSRC staff Steve Huter, Dale Smith and Hervey Allen will join and sponsor 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.
  • May 20-July 26: The NSRC will be supporting 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).
  • June 9-21: The initial Africa Internet Summit (AIS) will take place in Lusaka, Zambia. This is a consortium of meetings, including the African Network Operators Group annual workshops, AfriNIC 18, AfREN, AfGWG, AfricaCert Cybersecurity Day and more. The NSRC is providing monetary and organizational support as well as coordinating and teaching in several workshops and tutorials and presenting during several of the meetings.
  • July 1-5: NSRC staff Dean Pemberton and Andy Linton will coordinate, teach and present at the PacNOG 13 meeting to be held in Nukuʻalofa, Tonga. The NSRC will provide organization, monetary and materials support for the event.
  • July 27-August 3: The NSRC is supporting, coordinating and providing instructors for two parallel workshops during the initial Tanzania Network Operators Group event to be held in Arusha, Tanzania.

Activities Over the Past Year

2013

  • 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 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.
  • 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 Sangri-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 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 attend edand 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.

2012

  • December 3-7: NSRC staff Hervey Allen, Andy Linton, Dale Smith and Carlos Vicente taught a five-day workshop on Campus Network Design and Security in conjunction with Bhutan Telecom (DrukNet) and the Royal University of Bhutan (RUB) campuses. In addition several days of direct engineering assistance at the Office of the Vice Chancellor (OVC) at the Royal University of Bhutan in Thimpnu took place both before and after the workshop.
  • November 19-23: NSRC staff Patrick Okui and Merike Kao worked with Randy Bush (Research Fellow and Network Operator: Internet Initiative Japan) and Steven M. Bellovin (Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University) to teach a Network Security Workshop at the intERLab facility at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok, Thailand.
  • November 14-16: NSRC staff attended and supported (as a sponsor) the UbuntuNet-Connect 2012 Annual Conference of UbuntuNet Alliance that focused on research and education networking activities in Africa. the conference was held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The NSRC funded participation by Cleven Mmari of the Univesity of Oregon and Professor Fred Semazzi from North Carolina State University.
  • November 10-14: NSRC staff Carlos Vicente and Dale Smith as well as Kevin Chege from ISOC taught an Advanced Routing Workshop covering NREN Design and Peering as part of the UbuntuNet-Connect 2012 Conference of the UbuntuNet Alliance in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Cleven Mmari of the University of Oregon assisted as well..
  • November 5-9: Phil Regnauld and Carlos Armas of the NSRC taught a week-long Network Monitoring and Management workshop at the Asian Institue of Technology (AIT) as part of the 2012 Internet Education and Research Laboratory's (intERLab) workshop series.
  • October 21-24: NSRC and ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics) staff worked together on a tutorial on Building Affordable Wireless Networks for Research, Education, Humanitarian at the 2012 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) held in Seattle, Washington, USA.
  • October 15-19: NSRC staff Carlos Vicente and Hervey Allen as well as José Domínguez from the University of Oregon taught and organized at the WALC 2012 workshops and 20th year anniversary of the event held in Panama City, Panama. NSRC staff taught a Network Monitoring and Management workshop in Spanish.
  • October 3-6: The NSRC supported five women network engineers from Africa who attended the 2011 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference held at the Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The engineers included Dorcas Muthoni (Kenya), Lekoape Malebogo (Botswana), Dhlamini Nodumo (Zimbabwe), Tlali Mamothokoane (Lesotho) and Marie Paule Uwase (Rwanda).
  • October 2: Steve Huter attended a Meeting of Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy at the Department of State Truman Building in Washington D.C., USA.
  • September 30 - October 4: Dale Smith attended the Internet2 Fall Members Meeting. Dale Smith Chaired the Emerging NREN group and Steve Huter attended as well. The NSRC sponsored travel to the meeting for Youness Hamidi of the Morocco National Center for Scientific and Technical Research (CNRST) and Ama Dadson from the University of Ghana. The meeting took place in Philadelphia, Pennysylvania, USA.
  • September 30 - October 4: Phil Regnauld of the NSRC and Sean McAvoy from RIPE taught a Network Monitoring and Management workshop as part of the 11 Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG 11) meeting held in Amman, Jordan.
  • September 19-21: Carlos Vicente (NSRC) and Mehmet Akcin (ICANN) were in Lima, Peru to teach a hands-on workshop in Spanish on DNS and DNSSEC as part of a training in conjunction with ".pe".
  • September 17-21: Brian Candler and Patrick Okui from the NSRC were be at the Unversity of Ghana, Legon to provide direct engineering assistance and training to UG Legon engineers as part of the Google Apps Supporting Programs. While in Ghana Brian and Patrick also assisted the Central University College, Miotso Campus with direct engineering assistance.
  • September 6-7: Steve Huter worked in Boulder, Colorado with colleagues from the University of Colorado, Google, the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
  • August 29-31: The NSRC (Hervey Allen and Phil Regnauld), the Internet Society of Hong Kong (ISOC HK) organized a seminar and workshop on DNSSEC held in Hong Kong as part of the ISOC HK's DNSSEC.ASIA Summit. Richard Lamb of (ICANN) joined the event as well.
  • August 27: NSRC staff Hervey Allen and Phil Regnauld taught a Network Monitoring and Management tutorial at the APNIC 34 meeting held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
  • August 20-24: As part of the APNIC 34 meeting the NSRC taught a Campus Network Design and Management workshop with the Cambodia Research Education Network (CamREN) and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) at the Institut de Technologie du Cambodge (ITC) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
  • August 6-10: The NSRC and University of Oregon Knight Library staff worked with colleagues from the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD) in Sénégal planning, implementing and learning about Digital Library collections as well as Linux System Administration to help with the creation of a Digital archive in Sengal during the NSRC-UofO-UCAD FASTEF Workshop on Digital Archives.
  • July 15-19: The NSRC sponsored Maureen Wanja Njue from the Kenya Education Network (KENET) and Emmanuel Togo from the University of Ghana, Legon to attend the Summer 2012 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs meeting to be held at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA. NSRC staff Carlos Vicente and Steve Huter, also, attended the meeting.
  • July 2-7: NSRC staff Hervey Allen, Carlos Vicente and Phil Regnauld taught and organized at the PacNOG 11 Meeting, Conference and Educational Workshop held on Denarau Island, Nadi, Fiji. Workshops on IPv4/IPv6 BGP and Network Monitoring and Management as well as a 1/2 day program on Linux and Networking Fundamentals were included in the program.
  • June 19-28: NSRC personnel Brian Candler, Sebastian Buettrich and Patrick Okui as well as Kenya Education Network (KENET) staff member Maureen Wanja Njue worked with Kabarak University in Kenya, Google and KENET to assist with network training and network buildout at the main Kabarak University campus near Nakuru, Kenya.
  • June 3-5: Steven Huter attended the NANOG 55 meeting held in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
  • May 23-28: Dale Smith and Steve Huter attended and spoke at three TEIN3 workshops to held in Southeast Asia to promote advanced research and education networks for Asia-Pacific for stakeholders involved in research and education. The workshops, dates and locations were as follows:
  • May 21-23: The NSRC supported a workshop on Wireless Networks held at the Internet Education and Research Laboratory (intERLab) at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok, Thailand.
  • May 6-18: The NSRC taught, organized and attended the AfNOG 2012 Meeting and workshops held in Serrekunda, The Gambia, including workshops on Network Monitoring and Management in French and English.
  • May 6-11: José Domínguez attended and presented at the LACNIC XVII meeting held in Quito, Ecuador.
  • April 22-26: NSRC personnel taught and coordinated a DNS/DNSSEC Workshop at the 10th Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG 10) meeting that took place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
  • April 22-25: NSRC personnel Steve Huter and Dale Smith participated in the Spring Internet2 Member Meeting held in Arlington, Virginia, USA. In addition the NSRC sponsored travel for Dr Ousmane MOUSSA TESSA (WACREN board member) to attend and present about progress towards an NREN in Niger.
  • April 16-20: The NSRC and the Tanzania Education and Research Network (TERNET) organized and taught workshops on Campus Network Design and Linux System Administration to TERNET members at the Dar Es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT) in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

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