Vesna Manojlovic

RIPE Atlas Interface Hackathon Results

Vesna Manojlovic

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The third RIPE Atlas hackathon took place in Copenhagen the weekend before RIPE 72. In this article, we share the details about the hackathon and a preview of the fourth hackathon.


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It's a tradition to take photos of laptop decor

In 2015, we learned that hackathons work ! Creativity is enabled by bringing diverse people together to work on a common project and mixing skills and approaches makes for amazing results: see DataViz hackahton and  Tools hackathon results

This time around, the subject was " interfaces " - new ways to use RIPE Atlas data, new ways to display results, new combinations of ingredients leading to interesting outcomes. 

These were the differences between the third hackathon and the two previous ones:

  • Denmark is a very expensive country, therefore we are deeply grateful to Comcast for their sponsorship - their contribution made it possible.
  • Travel expenses for several attendees were partially covered by Comcast - this enabled students, researchers  and NGO participants to join
  • Due to the proximity of the RIPE meeting, some projects got to be presented to a wider audience, and some of the participants for the hackathon came from the traditional RIPE meeting audience (operators, companies) 

Numbers 

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Results

Multiple projects were presented , and the winner was Halo ! Their reward: present during the MAT Working Group session, and a box of stroopwafels :) 

Almost all of the projects were presented during RIPE 72 , so we will let the code, slides and videos speak for themselves (see below). 

Project People Code Other results Video Slides
Halo
(Network Outages
Dashboard)
Shane Kerr
Daniel Quinn
Désirée Milosevic
GitHub
link
Video Slides
(MAT WG)
Detecting Asymmetric
Routing over IXPs
Barry O'Donovan
Drew Taylor
Jacob Drabczyk
GitHub
link
Live website:
http://ard.inex.ie/
Video Slides
(Connect
WG)
Tartiflette
(Near Real-Time Anomaly
Detection
from RIPE Atlas Stream)
Randy Bush
Cristel Pelsser
James Reilly
Alexandru Manea
Razan K Abdallah
Wenqin Shao
GitHub
link
Related work:
RIPE Labs article ;
Lightning talk
Slides / Video
IP traceroute Explorer Sebastian Castro GitHub
link
"IPv4 versus IPv6 -
Who connects faster?"
Vaibhav Bajpai Live demo Video
(MAT-WG)
Slides
(MAT-WG)
Geocoded IPv4/IPv6
traceroutes
Asbjørn Sloth
Tønnesen
GitHub
link
Improvements for
IXP-Country-Jedi
based on TraIXroute
Dimitris
Mavrommatis Edwards Mukasa Gigis Petros
Santiago Ruano
Rincón
GitHub
link
Related work:
RACI presentation
about TraIXroute
Slides / Video
Probes Lifetime Philip Homburg
(RIPE NCC)
RIPE Labs article
Traceroute Streaming Daniel Karrenberg
(RIPE NCC)
GitHub
link
RIPE Labs article ;
Lightning talk
Slides / Video

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Teams at work

Next time

On 22 - 23 October 2016, just before the RIPE 73 meeting we will organise another hackathon, this time focussed on tools for Internet Exchange Points. We are planning to improve a number of things:

  • Involve more mentors,  facilitators , project managers and community builders in order to better organise teamwork and allow everyone to engage their potentials in the best way
  • Have the work day a bit more structured: frequent times to review progress and get clarification and help
  • Ensure  diversity: of skills, of genders, of viewpoints
  • Ask everyone to send an email introduction in advance, to describe their skills and preferred projects

The following things went well and we will keep them: 

  • Placing a lot of effort in prior preparation pays off: logistics, communication, education
  • Room setup that encourages team cooperation: islands of tables, flip-charts, name tags
  • Friendly and informal atmosphere, supportive RIPE NCC staff members that help troubleshoot issues 

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Closing party at the art-ship-hackerspace Illutron 

Staying in touch

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If you're interested in helping to organise or to participate in the next hackathon we'd love to hear from you!  We'd also love an invitation to be guests at your next event.  

In order to get in touch, here are some possibilities:

Hackathon participants: 

RIPE Atlas team:

  • @RIPE_Atlas on Twitter
  • ripe-atlas@ripe.net for mailing list discussions
  • atlas@ripe.net for tickets
 

 

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About the author

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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