fellow network engineers, policy wonks and enthusiasts,<div><br></div><div>RIPE65 is next week.  i&#39;m sure you are as excited as i am.  unless you&#39;re in UTC+5 or greater.  in which case, you&#39;re even more excited than i am because it&#39;s already thursday!</div>

<div><br></div><div>the ripe programme committee is about to select lightning talks for monday (we still have slots for tuesday and friday) so now is your time to improve your chances to be selected early!  we will be selecting lighting talks by friday so please submit your proposals by this time tomorrow.  </div>

<div><br></div><div>submit your lightning talk at:  </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://meetings.ripe.net/pc/lightning_submit.php?talkid=new">https://meetings.ripe.net/pc/lightning_submit.php?talkid=new</a></div><div>

<br></div><div>(you&#39;ll need a ripe speaker account, but you will want one of those anyway, since you&#39;ll be submitting lots of talks in the future). </div><div><br></div><div>all you need is an abstract and a title.  no presentation, no slides needed to submit.  once we accept your talk, obviously you&#39;ll need some slides to present it, so don&#39;t submit something you&#39;re not prepared to present on monday afternoon.</div>

<div><br></div><div>questions?  email me or <a href="mailto:pc@ripe.net">pc@ripe.net</a></div><div><br></div><div>looking forward to seeing you all in Amsterdam next week.<br><div><div><br></div>-- <br>Todd Underwood, for the RIPE Programme Committee</div>

<div><a href="mailto:pc@ripe.net">pc@ripe.net</a><br><a href="mailto:tmu@google.com" target="_blank">tmu@google.com</a><br><br>
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