NSRC Staff and Volunteer Activities Around the World

2010

  • August 2-6: Hervey Allen of the NSRC and Carlos Armas (NSRC Engineer) taught a Network Monitoring and Management workshop in Spanish at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, León, in León, Nicaragua.
  • July 19-24: Hervey Allen from the NSRC taught and helped to organize an Advanced Registry Operations Course (AROC) that took placee in in Guatemala City, Guetemala.
  • July 15-23: Phil Regnauld from the NSRC, and Steve Gibbard (NSRC Volunteer) taught and helped organize an ISP/IP Services workshop at the SANOG 16 meeting be held in Paro, Bhutan.
  • July 11-15: The NSRC, along with Internet2 and the AAU, sponsored travel to Columbus, Ohio for Emmanuel Togo of the University of Ghana and Ato Yawson of Ashesi University, Ghana (representing the Ghanaian Academic Research Network, GARNET) to attend the Summer 2010 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs meeting, and present on R&E networking and cyberinfrastructure in Ghana and West Africa.
  • July 13: Steven Huter participated in the International Research Network Connections (IRNC) Workshop with the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC.
  • June 27-July 3: Hervey Allen from the NSRC presented, organized and taught at the 7th Pacific Network Operators Group meeting (PacNOG 7) held in Pago Pago, American Samoa.
  • June 30-July 2: Phil Regnauld from the NSRC taught a course on Robust and Reliable DNS Infrastructure as well a day-long tutorial on DNSSEC at the June APTLD Member's Meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  • May 23-June 4: Alain Aina, Hervey Allen and Phil Regnauld taught and helped organize tutorials and workshops at the 11th Annual African Network Operator's Group meeting (AfNOG 11) meeting held in Kigali, Rwanda.
  • May 29: Alain Aina and Hervey Allen presented at the 2010 AfREN meeting held in conjunction with AfNOG 11 in Kigali, Rwanda.
  • May 16-21: José Domínguez taught a tutorial on Ingeniería de tráfico para ISP usando cualidades del BGP at the LACNIC XIII meeting held in Curacao, Antilles Netherlands.
  • April 26-28: Steve Huter and Dale Smith of the NSRC attended the Spring 2010 Internet2 Member Meeting. Dale Smith chaired the Emerging National Research and Education Networking (NREN) sessions. The meeting was held in Arlington, Virginia, USA. NSRC sponsored travel for two Haitian colleagues to speak in the Caribbean Regional Interest Group's session.
  • April 10-12: Phil Regnauld of the NSRC taught a workshop on Robust and Reliable DNS Infrastructure at the MENOG 6 meeting held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
  • March 8-13: José Domínguez, Steve Huter, Jeff Hite, Dale Smith and Sebastian Buettrich of the NSRC and the University of Oregon taught and assisted at the KENET-NSRC Campus Network Design workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya at the United States International University campus.
  • February 22-March 12: The NSRC assisted and taught at the Workshop and Awareness Conference on Evolution of Wireless Technologies hosted by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), in Trieste, Italy.
  • February 23-27: Hervey Allen and Phil Regnauld of the NSRC taught a Network Management Workshop as part of the APRCIOT 2010 event held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • January 31-February 4: The NSRC sponsored travel to Salt Lake City, Utah for Kevin Chege and Godwin Barechi of the Kenya Education Network (KENET) to attend the Winter 2010 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs meeting where they gave a talk on the state of R&E networking in Eastern and Southern Africa.

2009

  • November 29-December 14:. The NSRC supported the second workshop held jointly by PHEA and AfNOG at the ICT Centre, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana to help strengthen ICT skills in East Africa.
  • December 7-11: Alain Aina taught at an Initial Registry Operation Course held in Dakar, Sénégal.
  • November 16-19: Hervey Allen and Sebastian Buettrich taught a Network Management and Security workshop at the PacNOG 6 workshop and conference held in Nadi, Fiji
  • November 14-20: Steve Huter Participated in the SC 2009 event held in Portland, Oregon, USA
  • November 9-13: The NSRC funded travel for instructors Antoine Bagula and Ermanno Pietrosemoli as well as supporting Alain Aina to organize a wireless workshop in Cotonou, Benin in cooperation with WirelessU, ISOC and NetworkTheWorld.
  • November 2-4: José Domínguez and Hervey Allen taught and assisted at a Network Capacity building workshop towards a Bolivian NREN in La Paz, Bolivia.
  • November 2-3: Joe St. Sauver, sponsored by the NSRC, gave a talk at the Open Access 2009 conference held in Accra, Ghana.
  • October 12-16: The NSRC supported a wireless training workshop at the intERLab training center at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand.
  • September 28-October 4: The NSRC supported a joint effort by PHEA and AfNOG to teach workshops in East Africa to strengthen ICT skills at 12 African Universities. The first workshop was held at the ICT Centre, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
  • September 21-25: Hervey Allen, Carlos Armas y José Domínguez de el NSRC, junto con varios amigos, participó en el 12° Taller sobre Tecnologías de Redes Internet para América Latina y el Caribe o WALC 2009 que pasó en Bogotá, Colombia
  • September 10-24: Sebastian Buettrich taught a WirelessU workshop and assisting with deployment of wireless equipment in Pokhara, Nepal and surrounding areas.
  • September 2-5: Joel Jaeggli and Steve Okay (NSRC-funded volunteers) taught a WirelessU workshop in conjunction with the PacINET 2009 meeting held in Port Moresby, Papa New Guinea.
  • September 3-4: Hervey Allen and Phil Regnauld taught in the Introduction to Secure Registry Operations course that was part of the Latin American and the Caribbean ccTLDs Organization (LACTLD) technical training series, Santiago, Chile.