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Delayed RIPE Atlas Probe Shipments and Other News
by Vesna Manojlovic 27 May '14

27 May '14

Dear RIPE Atlas ambassadors, thank you for your continued support of RIPE Atlas, and your efforts to distribute the RIPE Atlas probes and record the hosts. We are delighted to have 100 active RIPE Atlas ambassadors on board! We regret to inform you that we have temporarily run out of RIPE Atlas probes. We are currently purchasing and initialising 5,000 new probes but this process will take at least a month. We are unable to ship any additional probes until the beginning of July, at the earliest. If you have already requested a new shipment, we will keep this request in our "wait-queue" and evaluate it in July. Our current goal is to increase the percentage of RIPE Atlas probes that are active, rather than to continue distributing probes. Therefore, we kindly ask you to: - Record those to whom you gave probes (as many as possible) - Remind people to plug in and register their probe Over the next six months, we will focus on building the RIPE Atlas network in geographical areas outside of the RIPE NCC service region. Please let us know if you can help us in these efforts. Thank you for your patience and contribution to RIPE Atlas. Regards, Vesna and Measurements Community Building Team

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Conferences 2014
by Lia Hestina 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Dear all, The conference seasons has started and we are very excited to see where 2014 will bring us. So we are wondering if you are planning to be in one of these conferences in the next two months: UKNOF 27 FOSDEM NANOG 60 APNIC 37 IETF 89 You will be able to meet RIPE NCC staffs in the conferences mentioned above, and it would be good to hear if you will also be there, so that we can coordinate the distribution of probes. Please let us know if there are some other conferences that you are attending. It would be great to have RIPE Atlas probes distributed during those conferences too. Meanwhile in our office, we have filled our cupboards with new stocks of the RIPE Atlas, so we are ready to supply you with more. We will take a look at the percentage of probes that you have distributed, and if *half* of them are activated and registered, we will send you more. Feel free to send your request to mcb(a)ripe.net. Please remember that depending on your location, the shipping time may take longer than a week. Many thanks again for your support by being a loyal RIPE Atlas ambassador, you make the difference! Kind regards, Lia Hestina

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Ambassador function, Cuba
by Wilfried Woeber 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Hi folks, just a tiny breadcrumb of feedback... I used the opportunity of the recent ICANN Meeting in Buenos Aires to take a few probes along. While I failed to get hold of one person to take a probe to her island, I succeeded to hand over one probe to be taken back home. So, since yesterday, we have the first probe on-line in Cuba. :-) ID: 12734 Cheers, Wilfried

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[RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors] New features in 2013, plans & requests for 2014
by Vesna Manojlovic 24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

Dear RIPE Atlas ambassadors, Thank you for helping us spread the love (& probes) for RIPE Atlas! We are pleased to announce several improvements in our internal procedures that are going to make your lives easier. New features ============ - You can now find the link to your ambassador probes and the administration interface on the website under "My Atlas" > "Ambassador Probes" - The registration procedure now requires hosts to type in *both* the MAC address and the probe ID; if they match, the probe will be "assigned" to the host (in the background, we will check if these correspond to the probes we allocated to you) - All your probes are now on one page, since removed probes-per-page display - The table headers are now sortable, which will help you when searching for your probes or hosts Plans ===== - Next week, we will sent an email reminding those hosts who have not yet registered or plugged in their probes to do so - Another feature request is to enable a search function (for now, you can use the browser search option to search for probes) - We are working on the webpages describing the ambassador process and procedures, and we will have them ready early next year Statistics ========== - There are 46 community members who are helping out as ambassadors! - Forty of our colleagues from the RIPE NCC are doing the same when they go to conferences or training courses - In total, there were around 1,500 probes distributed via ambassadors in 2013 - Half of those probes have been plugged in and registered and are now active in the RIPE Atlas network Requests ======== Could you please remind your friends and colleagues who you've given probes to to complete all the steps, and actually register their probes? That way, they will be able to earn credits and perform their own customised measurements, and we will be able to contact them by email if the probe disconnects. They can register here: https://atlas.ripe.net/register If you did not tell us who you gave the probe to, please do :) Also, we would like to ask you for your experiences - success stories, anecdotes and photos - from your adventures with distributing and using RIPE Atlas probes and measurements. And, as a new thing you can promote, we recently launched RIPE Atlas anchors! There are currently 26 anchors up and running and we have 30 more open applications, but we are still looking for more locations in Russia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America. You can find out more at: https://atlas.ripe.net/about/anchors/ Mailing list ======== I have added you all to the new mailing list: https://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/ripe-atlas-ambassadors Please use it for discussion about your experiences as ambassadors, troubles, or feature requests :) Kind regards, Vesna Measurements Community Building Team RIPE NCC -- Season's Greeting from the RIPE Atlas team! https://atlas.ripe.net/media/community/action/originals/RIPE-Atlas-Christma…

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