September 2017 - RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors

Welcome and tips for new RIPE Atlas ambassadors
by Vesna Manojlovic 14 Feb '18

14 Feb '18

Dear colleagues, Thank you very much for helping us build RIPE Atlas into the largest, most diverse Internet measurement network possible by spreading the word and distributing probes. To help make it easier for our community to meet RIPE Atlas ambassadors, we’ve created a list of the different events where ambassadors will be available to answer questions and hand out probes: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/community/#!tab-conferences Please let us know if there are any events you’ll be attending, and we will add you to the list. If you want us to list your contact details, please also tell us your Twitter, GitHub or LinkedIn information. You can send these details to mcb(a)ripe.net. We’re also happy to announce that the dashboard view of the probes you've already distributed has been improved. We hope this will help you in your tasks as a RIPE Atlas ambassador, such as following up with hosts who are a bit slow to connect their probes, or those who have maybe forgotten all about connecting them! Below you can find some more tips and resources to help you as a RIPE Atlas ambassador. We look forward to meeting you soon, either in person at an event (hopefully at RIPE 69!) or online. Kind regards, Lia, Michela, Vesna Measurements Community Building team RIPE NCC Tips: You can download and print a brochure that explains what RIPE Atlas is and how people can apply for a probe: https://www-static.ripe.net/static/rnd-ui/atlas/media/apply/RIPE_Atlas_flye… You can see where we need to distribute more probes: https://atlas.ripe.net/contrib/density.html You can see how many probes are in a certain AS Number by querying RIPEstat for the AS Number and looking at the "Activity” tab: https://stat.ripe.net You can get the latest updates about RIPE Atlas on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/atlas

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Thank you for helping us reach 10, 000 Active RIPE Atlas Probes!
by Vesna Manojlovic 29 Sep '17

29 Sep '17

Dear ambassadors, in August 2017, the number of connected RIPE Atlas probes hit 10,000 !! Thank you all for making this happen! We could have only made this with you! Next goal is to reach higher topological diversity - to cover more networks, and again we rely on your help, as local experts and community connectors. You can read more about it in this RIPE Labs article, and see photos of cakes ;-) https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/celebrating-10000-active-ripe-atl… Kind regards, Vesna Manojlovic RIPE NCC

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Re: [RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] Request for advices on how behaving as an "ambassador" (& hackers)
by Vesna Manojlovic 29 Sep '17

29 Sep '17

Hi Sylvain, regarding your questions about hackers events & hackerspaces: (I am cc-ing ambassadors list, because this might be of interest to others... ) On 25/09/2017 18:36, Sylvain Lesage wrote: > - another host wants to use its probe to show in various hackers > meetings. If he wants to promote where he will be, we have this nice page: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/community/#!conferences He can let us know & we'll add his events to the page. > I understand that showing the object may be a good way to get > adhesion and promote the RIPE Atlas project, even if having the probe in > your hands has no utility for measurements. He can use the slide-deck that we offer to all the ambassadors, as PDF or Keynote (with trainer notes!) or PowerPoint... https://www.ripe.net/support/training/material#mat Or even a pretty / glossy brochure, available from here: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/become-a-ripe-atlas-ambassador/ > - another host wants to get the probe circulating every couple of months > between the members of its hacklab. What do you recommend? As Lia said, they can all get their own probe ;-) And the value of the probe in the hacklab is NOT for the hacklab itself, but for the people _outside_ of Bolivia to make the measurements from that one.. and that's the most valuable if it's stable & online as much as possible. Furthermore, I'd like them to add a "tag" on their probe called "hackerspace", so that others know more about their probe... ... because we have a few fun projects with these special probes: https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/RIPE_Atlas_probes_at_hackerspaces Tagging them on the hackerspaces.org with "RIPE Atlas": http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/RIPE_Atlas & more... https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/the-next-42-ripe-atlas-probes-at-hacker… & Hackerspaces Jedi, by Emile Aben: Which is using all the probes in all the hackerspaces & makes a "mesh" traceroute measurement between them & visualizes the results: https://github.com/emileaben/ixp-country-jedi https://program.sha2017.org/events/284.html & the video of his talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/SHA2017-284-hackerspaces_jedi Thanks for reaching out to these alternative communities :) Ciao, Vesna (for the last 6 years, at every RIPE meeting we go visit a local hackerspace... https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/six-years-of-hackerspaces-tours-during-… )

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Re: [RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] [uknof] RIPE Atlas Probes
by Nishal Goburdhan 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

On 27 Sep 2017, at 23:58, Martin Hannigan <hannigan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Howdy all, hi martin, this is probably better suited to the atlas ambassador list so i’ve moved your question here. apologies if that seems presumptuous. i’ve found that trying to get folks in a local environment clued up on what these are, and why they are important, and then having *them* acting as a distributor or point of contact for these domestically, is a better way to have them stay online in the long term, than to have an absentee ambassador from half-way around the world. in the list you mention below, it would be a lot easier for someone locally to provide suppor for something like the recent USB issue, if the probe hoster runs into a problem. overall, that’s a better way, i think, of creating ambassadors, and extending the community. of course that means that you earn fewer ambassafor credits for online probes, but since these are not tradable for any IPv4 space, these is no longer so attractive… ;-) > A small group of us are doing relief work in the Caribbean. We're helping to deploy managed public hotspots to expand the access of what little they have. > NANOG is coming up shortly. We have coopertion of the incumbent, the gov and NGOs. There is shipping access as a result to places that are hurt. We would like to get probes into these countries. > Selfishly, so we don't need to set up an extraneous (or at least much) of a monitoring environment. The probes will do almost everything immediately relevant. Second, it's also an opportunity to stage probes so that we can get better data. It may not help out immediately, but for the next time, we could have a much better view of the damage. > > How can we work the process to make this feasible? i’ve found the NCC’s atlas team to be very helpful here; i’ve found good folk in a local economy, and put them in touch with the atlas team, and the necessaries happened to get a standard box of 10 probes to the “new” ambassador. there was nothing extraordinary needed to make this happen. kudos to the NCC team! > Countries we're working to help are USVI, BVI and OECS islands. the technical manager at the regulator in BVI is a friend, and should be able to help make sure these stay online. details sent unicast. consider, though, that in the areas that you provide, there is still a lot of usage-based billing happening. a mostly idle probe can easily eat 3GB of data, which is significant if someone is living on a data cap of 5GB (true story!). so i always make a point of explaining the data-usage that’s going to happen, that’s often overlooked by the shininess of a having a new toy at home/participating in the project. good luck, —n.

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