Vesna Manojlovic is Community Builder at RIPE NCC. Vesna joined the RIPE NCC as a Trainer in 1999. In 2003, she took responsibility for developing and delivering advanced courses, such as RPSL, Routing Registry, DNSSEC and IPv6. In 2008, she lead efforts to establish IPv6 RIPEness as a measure of … More
Deploying software is fun when we can do it together, through a virtual deployathon, guided by mentors! Join us on 25 November 2020 to help us celebrate 10 years of RIPE Atlas by adding 10x10 software probes over 10 hours!
RIPE NCC has been organising interactive, group-energised, mutual-learning, multidisciplinary, face-to-face events called hackathons since 2014.
RIPE Atlas is "a global network of thousands of probes that measure Internet connectivity and reachability in real time". Most of the vantage points are physical devices: probes and "anchors". This year we have introduced "software probes" that you can install yourself, at home, on any (compatible) device you have.
We’re bringing together two of our favourite things – getting more people involved in RIPE Atlas, and bringing out the collaborative hackathon spirit. COVID-19 pushes us to be creative about how we will run this event. We’re counting on you to be our virtual co-hosts as we in effect run a global distributed deployathon in your living rooms, with the same goal: deploying RIPE Atlas software probes!
To encourage new (potential) RIPE Atlas hosts to install software probes
To provide step-by-step help for participants
To allow experienced probe hosts to offer mentorship to others
To facilitate human connections (online) between RIPE Atlas users
To offer guidance, answers and tips from the RIPE Atlas developer team and other experts/RIPE Atlas ambassadors
To collect feedback on the installation process, measurements, software, and RIPE Atlas architecture - feature requests, bug reports, wishes...
To have fun while working together!
The Deployathon Challenges
Together, we want to deploy 100 new probes on Wednesday, 25 November! Your challenge is to have one software probe running by the end of the day
Installed
Initiated
Registered
Up and running
Bonus points for:
Multiple probes (in different ASNs)
Starting your first measurement
Someone else starts using your probe for their measurements!
Our logistical challenges
Ensure the deployathon covers in five different time zones!
Have our first (virtual) hackathon/deployathon in multiple languages!
Never a dull moment
We're Looking for You!
You can take part in this event in one of three roles:
As a participant who wants to host a probe
As a mentor
Or drop in for a bit as a visitor.
Probe Hosts
Curious about RIPE Atlas? Passionate about Internet measurements? We're looking for network operators and equipment vendors, software developers and journalists, as well as general web, privacy, and cryptography enthusiasts (students, researchers, industry professionals) who are interested in Internet technology to participate in this event.
The level of technical knowledge required is more than 'basic', but less than 'ninja' or 'cyber-mermaid': you are expected to have some knowledge of:
Using command line interface
Installing software packages on your device
Maintain and have admin access to own infrastructure (virtual machine, home router, existing server, etc)
Currently we provide packages for CentOS, and it's possible to install on Debian, Raspbian, Turris Routers and under Docker
If you want to deploy on a different platform, please join the discussion list! (In particular, Windows platforms are next to impossible, and BSD versions may be a good challenge!)
Mentors
We are also looking for more experienced people, who can act as mentors. Your tasks will be to:
Share your experiences of RIPE Atlas with others
Guide the participants through the installation process
Answer questions about RIPE Atlas
Possibly do all of the above in your native language, if it's a language other than English!
Bonus points for experience with the "exotic" platforms
Bonus points for updating documentation in a non-English language
If you are interested in being a mentor, please specify that in the registration form. We will contact you to schedule extra sessions with other mentors and RIEP NCC staff, once before the deplyathon and once after the event.
Visitors Welcome
Since this is a virtual event, we are not limiting the number of participants - but the registration is required. However, if you do install a software probe you will have a chance to win (symbolic) rewards.
Here are some research papers that used RIPE Atlas data for analysing Internet performance
Learn more about RIPE NCC hackathons
Five years after the first RIPE NCC hackathon, we're going back to our first topic: RIPE Atlas! Since then, in addition to more than ten "real-life" hackathons, we have hosted a range of events: hybrid, online and distributed!
This will be our second Working-From-Home hackathon in 2020!
We had our first deployathon in 2019.
Last year, we held a hybrid event: virtual connections between six "face-to-face" hackathons: the Pan-European Quantum Internet Hackathon!
Non-commercial; we are a not-for-profit organisation and have no monetary prizes
All resulting software and tools are released under non-commercial licenses
Non-competitive; we prefer cooperation and teamwork
We are aiming for the inclusive, friendly, respectful atmosphere at our events. We are against behaviours that offend based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, race or ethnic origin, or other perceived social, cultural, or personal differences. We are guided by the RIPE Code of Conduct.
By attending the event you are bound by these recommendations, by legal terms and conditions and by policies for online participation.
Spanish: 11:00 Rio de Janeiro (BRT) | 09:00 Lima (PET) | 15:00 Amsterdam time (CET)
More languages?
In addition to introducing Russian and Spanish guided sessions and Q&A "room", we are also open to experiment with other languages. Currently we do not have capacity to cover more languages with RIPE NCC staff, but we are looking for mentors who can do that.
Please indicate in the registration form if you are interested in participating in a section in another language - or if you want to be a mentor and provide guidance in your native language.
We will create additional Zoom spaces/rooms for other languages, and we will publish an adjusted schedule if there are more languages offered.
Event Time Line
One Week Before the Event
It's nice to start connecting with the community before we meet virtually. You can use the discussion mailing list, EtherPad and the designated Slack workspace to connect with the like-minded people who share your love for technology and Internet measurements.
How the deployathon will work
We will do things a bit differently in this cyberspace deployathon:
You will work on your own, in your home, a cafe, an office or hackerspace... or in corona-safe small groups, organised at your own responsibility!
We will use Zoom to run the event. You can choose the video-chat, or audio-only, or just typing in the text window.
During the guided sessions (see schedule), there will be a short introduction, and time to share experiences, questions and discussion
You can request demo of the installation process, and if someone is available to help, you can go to the Small Room
After you have finished with installation, if you have advanced questions, mentors and RIPE NCC staff will do our best to organise alternative spaces - or use a Small Room if available - to help you out.
You can use Zoom to ask questions at any point of the deployathon day, share your experiences, chat, sing, dance, show us a magic trick...
We will use Slack as the alternative communications option, meant mostly for weeks before and after the event.
At the opening and closing ceremony, we will...
At the end of the day
During the closing session, we will showcase all the day's achievements:
Total number of participants
Total number of probes deployed
Funny moments and/or things that went wrong
Total number of cats, dogs, goldfish, children and other "alternative" participants we had on video
And we will have a surprise FUN ACTIVITY!
Rewards
Since we want to focus on collaboration and not on competition, there will be no monetary prizes given.
Each participant will receive some credits for scheduling RIPE Atlas measurements
For participating: 1,000,000 credits
For having completed the deployment during the day: 5,000,000
There will be symbolic prizes given for these achievements - or for other most impressive achievements. You can earn the bragging rights for:
The quickest installation
The most enthusiastic mentor
The busiest alternative language room
The first probe in a country that was not "covered" before
We are celebrating 10 Years of RIPE Atlas, and channeling the power of community and a bit of the DIY spirit, to learn how to deploy these measurement vantage points and so that we can grow RIPE Atlas together.
Vesna Manojlovic is Community Builder at RIPE NCC. Vesna joined the RIPE NCC as a Trainer in 1999. In 2003, she took responsibility for developing and delivering advanced courses, such as RPSL, Routing Registry, DNSSEC and IPv6. In 2008, she lead efforts to establish IPv6 RIPEness as a measure of … More
Vesna Manojlovic is Community Builder at RIPE NCC. Vesna joined the RIPE NCC as a Trainer in 1999. In 2003, she took responsibility for developing and delivering advanced courses, such as RPSL, Routing Registry, DNSSEC and IPv6. In 2008, she lead efforts to establish IPv6 RIPEness as a measure of … More
Vesna Manojlovic is Community Builder at RIPE NCC. Vesna joined the RIPE NCC as a Trainer in 1999. In 2003, she took responsibility for developing and delivering advanced courses, such as RPSL, Routing Registry, DNSSEC and IPv6. In 2008, she lead efforts to establish IPv6 RIPEness as a measure of … More
Vesna Manojlovic is Community Builder at RIPE NCC.
Vesna joined the RIPE NCC as a Trainer in 1999. In 2003, she took responsibility for developing and delivering advanced courses, such as RPSL, Routing Registry, DNSSEC and IPv6. In 2008, she lead efforts to establish IPv6 RIPEness as a measure of IPv6 deployment among LIRs. In 2011, she joined the Science Division as Manager of the Measurements Community Building team; in 2015 she moved to Communications Department as Senior Community Builder, with a focus on organising hackathons.
Vesna gives presentations at many technical conferences and workshops, and enjoys visiting hackerspaces.
Vesna received a Batchelor of Sciences Degree in Computer Science and Informatics from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. She has three children.
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