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RIPE Atlas ambassador monthly report
by Lia Hestina 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

Dear all, Starting this month, all RIPE Atlas ambassadors will receive monthly updates giving them a clear overview of their recent activities. Each update will contain a variety of useful statistics, including information on probe connection rates and connection issues. As an ambassador, you’ll also get a reminder of the amount of credits you've accumulated over the past few months, as well as the latest news on RIPE Atlas related developments and events. This is the first time we’ve sent out these updates, so do let us know if you have any questions, or if there’s anything else you’d like to be notified about in the updates. Kind regards, Lia Hestina On behalf of the RIPE Atlas team

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Call for presentations - FIR 2017 & LAC-IX
by Fabián Mejía 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Dear fellows Below you will find the CFP for The Regional Interconnection Forum 2017 & LAC-IX's Open Meeting, part of LACNIC 27 meeting. The deadline for submissions is *12 March 2017*. Kind regards, Fabian Mejia Chair Regional Interconnection Forum *********************************************************************** CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS *********************************************************************** REGIONAL INTERCONNECTION FORUM 2017 & LAC-IX'S OPEN MEETING May 22-26, 2017 – Foz do Iguazu, Brasil More information: http://interconexion.lacnic.net http://www.lac-ix.net LACNIC (http://www.lacnic.net) is an international organization based in Montevideo, Uruguay, responsible for administrating IP address space, Reverse Resolution, Autonomous System Numbers and other resources for the region of Latin America and the Caribbean on behalf of the Internet community. The Regional Interconnection Forum (formerly known as NAPLA), is a discussion forum that includes an annual meeting held within the framework of LACNIC's main annual event. LAC-IX is the Latin American and Caribbean Association of Internet Exchange Point Operators and regularly organizes open public meetings within the framework of LACNIC's events. Due to their similar topics and for the benefit of the attendees, in 2017, the Regional Interconnection Forum and the LAC-IX's Open Meeting will be held jointly, inside a single room, and under a single agenda. The LACNIC 27 event (http://www.lacnic.net/web/eventos/lacnic27) will be held in Foz do Iguazu (Brasil) on 22-26 May, 2017, so we are calling the Internet community to submit proposals for presentations that could be included on the program of "The Regional Interconnection Forum 2017 & LAC-IX's Open Meeting". The topics of interest for the event include, but are not limited to, the following: * Internet Exchange Points (IXPs): current status, future projects, new services, public policies, multimedia peering,. * Regional Connectivity: the role of governments, submarine and terrestrial cables, traffic measurements, current and future needs. * Content Delivery Networks (CDNs): strategies of deployment and presence within the region, peering policies, impact on local and regional traffic, * Cloud services: impact on local and regional traffic, availability, growth, future projects in the LAC region. * Other critical infrastructure: DNS root servers, ccTLDs and gTLDs. * Technical topics: best BGP routing practices, analysis of faults and attacks having major impacts on traffic. * Current issues: impact on local or regional traffic of high-interest events (e.g., availability / unavailability of services, natural disasters, sports events of high interest, etc). GUIDELINES FOR THE SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: Those interested in presenting a proposal should send an email to comite.fir@ lacnic.net containing the following information in the text of the message: * Presentation title. * General summary. * An attachment with a draft of the slides or an extended abstract of the article / work submitted. This text should not exceed one thousand (1000) words. * Estimated time of the presentation. * Authors' details (full name, email address and company/organization they represent) * Specify whether at least one of the authors can guarantee their attendance at the event, or whether this depends on the possibility of obtaining financial assistance from the event's organizers (see "Speaker Benefits"). In addition, the following considerations should be taken into account: * Proposals may be submitted in English, Portuguese or Spanish. * Proposals must be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF). * Scanned documents will not be accepted. * Presentations may not be longer than 20 minutes. The time allocated may be different than requested. * The Evaluation Committee may, at its sole discretion, request additional information, which must be sent promptly. PROPOSAL EVALUATION: The Evaluation Committee created for this purpose shall evaluate proposals based on the following basic criteria: * Originality * Value of sharing the experience * Technical quality * Relevance * Possibility of generalized application * Presentation * Applicability * Importance of the development THE EVALUATION COMMITTEE IS MADE UP AS FOLLOWS: * Roque Gagliano (UY) * Milton Kashiwakura (BR) * Hernan Arcidiacono (AR) * Mauricio Oviedo (CR) * Gabriel Adonaylo (AR) * Christian O'Flaherty (AR) * Carlos Martínez (UY) * Fabián Mejía (EC) SPEAKER BENEFITS: The registration fee will be waived for those authors whose proposals are accepted and included in the program. However, speaker travel and accommodation expenses will not be covered. Those requiring financial assistance to attend the event may apply for such assistance when LACNIC opens the corresponding application period. Please note that acceptance of a proposal does NOT imply that the author(s) will be granted financial assistance, although the submission of a proposal may be considered a plus during the recipient selection process. For more information, please check out the Financial Assistance section on the event's website: (http://www.lacnic.net/web/eventos/lacnic27) or check with LACNIC staff at becas(a)lacnic.net IMPORTANT DATES: * Deadline for proposal reception: Sunday, 12 March 2017 * Notification of acceptance: Week of March 13, 2017 * Deadline for submitting the final version of the presentation: Friday, 12 May, 2017 Kind regards, Fabian Mejia Chair Regional Interconnection Forum

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Events support
by Vesna Manojlovic 18 Feb '17

18 Feb '17

Dear ambassadors, you go around and meet all these people, so here are some news about events: * As usual, we try to collect all of your conference-presence and share it with the community; please take a look and add yourself, or let us know where else you are going: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/community/#!conferences * If you would like to attend RIPE meeting, or know someone else who needs fellowship help, we have a call open now: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/agowland/apply-now-for-new-ripe-fellowship-pr… And if your community has students or researcher, RACI call is open too: http://ripe.net/raci * We have our own event - fifth hackathon - this time with DNS-topic: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/dns-measurements-hackathon-2017 Good luck with all your travels, hope to see you soon at some of these places! Regards, Vesna

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New resources for ambassadors, February 2017
by Vesna Manojlovic 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Dear RIPE Atlas ambassadors, we are grateful for the work you do in helping build the community around this large platform for active measurements! We have some new resources that can make your work easier: * a short video explaining RIPE Atlas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3SW2vO8qW0 * we have annotated slides for the training courses, with the "presenter notes", that you can reuse if you wish to give a workshop, tutorial or presentation. Please let us know if you need them, then we can send you the slides. http://ripe.net/training And if you want to publish a story about your own experiences, we will be happy to have it on RIPE Labs! You can find RIPE Atlas related articles here: https://labs.ripe.net/atlas Regards, Vesna

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RIPE Atlas BoF session at APRICOT 2017
by Lia Hestina 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Dear all, We are organising a BoF session to take place on 1 March 2017 (17:30-19:00) at the APRICOT 2017 conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The session will open with a short introduction of RIPE Atlas followed by four short presentations. We will close the session with open discussions aimed at sharing the experiences of users/hosts and also RIPE Atlas ambassador. We would like to invite you to take part and present your work/ideas/use cases for one of the 10 minute presentations (5 mins talk + 5 mins Q&A). Please send us your request before Tuesday 20 February. Here's a list of potential presentation topics, just to give you an idea of the kinds of talk we're looking for: What has gone well and what can be improved in the tool/platform? What do users want to see in the dashboard/landing page? Share experience of getting probes distributed in the region. How we can get help to improve RIPE Atlas Country Jedi? How can we attract new users? We really hope you'll come along to the session and take part in the discussion. Just to tempt you, we'll be bringing along some of the famous ‘Stroopwafel’ during the session. Finally, we'd really appreciate it if you could help us spread the word about the RIPE Atlas BoF session and invite your colleagues or any new friends you meet at Apricot :) See you at APRICOT! Lia Hestina

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RIPE Atlas Ambassadors, You Are Spoiling Us
by Lia Hestina 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

Dear all, You did it again! At the RIPE NCC, we are grateful for the contribution RIPE Atlas ambassadors make to the success of the RIPE Atlas measurements platform. In this article, we focus on a handy RIPEstat tool that can be used to visualise the results of their efforts. The tool provides a historical view of country-specific growth of RIPE Atlas probe numbers and allows for comparisons of up to four countries in the same graph. You can access the full article at the following link: <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ambassador-you-are-spoiling-us [Open URL] <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ambassador-you-are-spoiling-us%20[Open%…>> Thanks to each and every one of you for your contribution. Best regards, RIPE Atlas Team

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RIPE Atlas conference calendar Nov-Dec 2016
by Lia Hestina 03 Nov '16

03 Nov '16

Dear all, Many people frequently ask if they can get a probe or have questions about RIPE Atlas during a conference. That is why it would be very helpful if we could provide them information of which ambassador is available at which conference. I am currently updating the RIPE Atlas conference calendar <https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/community/#!conferences <https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/community/#!conferences>>. Will you be attending any of these conferences? Upcoming conferences: ICANN 57 <https://www.icann.org/> (Hyderabad, IN) Nov 3 - Nov 9 Euro-IX 29 <https://www.euro-ix.net/> (Krakow, PL) Nov 6 - Nov 8 Cashless World <http://www.cashless-world.com/> (Brussels, BE) Nov 7 - Nov 9 ISP Summit <http://www.ispsummit.ca/> (Toronto, CA) Nov 7 - Nov 9 E-Crime & Information Security Madrid <http://www.e-crimecongress.org/events> (Madrid, ES) 10 Nov IETF 97 <http://www.ietf.org/> (Seoul, KR) Nov 13 - Nov 18 IPv6 Roadshow Kuwait <http://www.menog.org/ipv6-roadshow/> (Kuwait, KW) Nov 14 - Nov 16 E-Crime & Information Security Qatar <http://www.e-crimecongress.org/events> (Qatar, QA) 16 Nov RSNOG <http://rsnog.rs/> (Belgrade, RS) Nov 21 - Nov 22 LINX 95 <https://www.linx.net/communications/events/linx95> (London, GB) Nov 21 - Nov 22 DENOG 8 <http://www.denog.de/meetings/denog8/> (Darmstadt, DE) Nov 23 - Nov 24 iNOG 10 <http://www.meetup.com/Irish-Network-Operators-Group/> (Dublin, IE) 24 Nov Afrinic 25 <http://www.afrinic.net/> (Port Louis, MU) Nov 25 - Nov 30 Open Source Monitoring Conference (OSMC) <https://www.netways.de/nocache/en/events_trainings/osmc/cfp/> (Nuremberg, DE) Nov 29 - Dec 1 Is your event not in the list? Send me details of your event and I will add it to the page ASAP. Further, are you planning to do anything related to RIPE Atlas, such as presentation, workshop, tutorial or demo? Do you know that we can help you with the following? - Providing you with our latest content/material. - Vouchers to give during the workshop/tutorial. - Additional probes to distribute. - T-shirts to give away (limited sizing). - Mention your talk/event from our Twitter account. Do check out the 'country statistic' widget in RIPEstat and get information such as how many probes are in a country, what are their status and where do we want to improve. Here is Canada as example: <https://stat.ripe.net/CA#tabId=activity <https://stat.ripe.net/CA#tabId=activity>> I look forward to hearing from you. Warm regards, Lia Hestina

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Most of the probe down because of USB Stick read-only
by Budiwijaya 03 Oct '16

03 Oct '16

Hi, I just realised that most of my Ambassador Probes are offline probably caused by USB stick that turned into read-only mode. A couple of guys that I contacted and I give them instruction to reformat the USB stick said that the USBs are read only. I already told them to try to change the USB sticks, but looks like none are voluntarily (buy a new USB/use their USB stick) to change the USB sticks. Any idea how to revive the dead probe? Thank you Budiwijaya

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Apply for RIPE NCC IXP-Tools Hackathon, 22-23 October, Madrid
by Vesna Manojlovic 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

Dear RIPE Atlas ambassadors, please forward this invitation to anyone of your contacts that might be interested in participating in the next hackahton. Thanks for spreading the word! Regards, Vesna -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Apply for RIPE NCC IXP-Tools Hackathon, 22-23 October, Madrid Dear colleagues, After three successful hackahtons focused on RIPE Atlas data, this time, we are going to work on on IXP-related-tools, together with Euro-IX, Comcast and ISOC: the weekend before RIPE73, in Madrid. In addition to RIPE Atlas, we will use RIS data, PeeringDB data, existing software tools that deal with IXP-data-integration (such as IXP manager, IXP-Countri-Jedi...) in order to solve some of the challenges that operators have when making peering decisions, and to illustrate the impact of IXPs on the Internet routing and connectivity. We are looking for designers and developers, students and network operators, and of course colleagues from IXPs, to work together on hacking the new & old toolsets and visualizations! All source code developed during the hackathon will be publicly licensed and available on GitHub, and will be free for the entire community to use. -------------------- How to Apply -------------------- Interested? Learn more and apply online today! https://atlas.ripe.net/hackathon/ixp-tools/#!application-form *The application deadline is 15 September* Thanks to our generous sponsors, there is a limited travel funding available for certain categories of applicants. Please find more info in this RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/announcing-the-ixp-tool… We look forward to seeing you there! Regards, Vesna

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RIPE Atlas distribution update June 2016
by Lia Hestina 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

Dear RIPE Atlas Ambassador, We are reducing RIPE Atlas probe distribution while we look at our supply chain and investigate ways of improving probe reliability. This means that in the coming weeks we will send fewer probes to RIPE Atlas ambassadors. We are choosing to do this now because it corresponds with the slowing down of business in the summer period. We hope that this does not have much impact on you. Keep an eye on your inbox in September for an update from us. Of course you can always contact <atlas(a)ripe.net <mailto:atlas@ripe.net>> if you are attending a conference in a location that still has very low RIPE Atlas coverage. The requirements are still the same, fifty percent of your probes should already be online before we can send out a new batch. Kind Regards, RIPE Atlas Team

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