Dear colleagues, in a month, RIPE NCC will be hosting another RIPE meeting and this time around we're heading to the eternal city of Rome, Italy! The dates are November 27 - December 1; registration for the meeting is already open and draft agenda is published with the final version coming soon. For more details, check the official page: https://ripe87.ripe.net Leading up to the meeting, on November 14th NCC will organise a free online event where you can get a brief intro into RIPE community and our academic engagements, as well as the information about the RIPE 87 meeting itself. The planned duration of the event is 1h and 30min. Take a look at the agenda: * Illuminating the Internet: Researcher's Adventures in Internet Measurement, Raffaele Sommese, University of Twente * GÉANT Network eAcademy, Ivana Golub, PSNC/GÉANT * A brief guide to RIPE Meetings and how to (meaningfully) participate, Mirjam Kühne, RIPE Chair * RIPE NCC and Academia, Jelena Ćosić, RIPE NCC NCC has also set aside a limited number of free student tickets (for all 5 days of the conference). We especially encourage students from Italian universities to apply, but the offer is extended to all. You can find more about the online event here: https://ripe87.ripe.net/programme/parallel-events/student-event Registration [1] for the online event is free and will be open until the day of the event. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me. Hope to see you there! Kind regards, Jelena Links: ------ [1] https://meeting-registration.ripe.net/meeting-pub/registration?0&meeting...