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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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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!
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Vesna Manojlovic takes a look at the recently published RFC8890 and talks about why she's an advocate for technical communities working together with End Users on mutual empowerment.
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The recent report "Creating the Digital Commons" inspired me to look into the similarities between data and infrastructure governance. My preliminary conclusion: we need new sustainable paradigms!
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The thirteenth Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE.net) conference is being held entirely online from 25 July to 2 August 2020. We are following talks relevant to the RIPE community and reporting back. Join us in participating in real time, or watch archived presentations.
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As a part of our efforts to increase collaboration between the "classical" Internet and quantum networking research, we are republishing the summary of a research paper on "heterogeneous quantum networks".
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While working from home during the global health crisis, we organised a virtual hackathon. The event lasted several weeks and aimed to measure and visualise the health of the Internet.
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To continue collaborative creation, let's challenge ourselves to make the longest hackathon: an on-going on-line open-data analysis of the health of the Internet during the COVID-19 crisis.
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There is an increased interest in the security and privacy impacts of software used for slowing down the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic. In this article, we republish the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) recommendations for your information.
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Many organisations are measuring the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on Internet performance: in this article, we look at four recent reports.
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After the recent earthquake in Croatia we looked at RIPE Atlas and RIS data to visualise the impact a large event like this can have on the resilience of the Internet.
Researcher, coach and facilitator Nadine Andrews, who is chair of Climate Psychology Alliance Scotland, will be one of the speakers in the first of a series of Open Forum events on Our Changing Climate: An Open Forum on Inner Resilience and Emotional Awareness - an invitation to explore and relate to the feelings and perspectives that appear for us in relation to our changing climate. Monday, 6th September , 7:45 PM – 10:00 PM CEST https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-open-forum-on-inner-resilience-and-emotional-awareness-tickets-164622274655
There's an interesting webinar coming up, on 13th May: "Covid and Mental Health", organised by Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZhLvJk1eRoi8FwqDKcW1SA
Upcoming course on the topic of safety: "Psychological Safety: Privilege & Power", by Jyotsna Sara George & "The Hum" 29 April, 09:00 – 10:30 CEST, over Zoom https://www.thehum.org/events-1/psychological-safety-privilege-power
“On Tuesday, 16. March 2021, there is an upcoming event "Resilience Skills You Need Right Now", by resilience expert, Deborah Gilboa, MD, aka “Dr. G” works with families, organizations, and businesses to identify the mindset and strategies to turn stress to an advantage: https://www.meetup.com/meetup-live/events/276814472/ "Can you believe it’s been a year since we went into lockdown? The past 12 months have been filled with uncertainty, but one thing is for sure: stress levels are soaring. Let’s take the time to learn how to channel our stress, negative energy, and longing of the past into something more useful. Learn resilience skills for anything life throws your way."”
More events! On Tuesday 23. March there is EMEA InfoSecurity Magazine Summit, and on Wednesday 24. March the North America version: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/online-summits/spring-2021-emea-edition/ & https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/online-summits/mar-24-2021-north-america/ For met he most interesting talks are: "Diversity & Inclusion - Ensuring a Cyber Future that Works for All" & "Take A Deeper Look at Team Burnout & How the Industry Can Tackle Mental Health" . Take a look at the rest of the programme and register for free!
On Tuesday, 16. March 2021, there is an upcoming event "Resilience Skills You Need Right Now", by resilience expert, Deborah Gilboa, MD, aka “Dr. G” works with families, organizations, and businesses to identify the mindset and strategies to turn stress to an advantage: https://www.meetup.com/meetup-live/events/276814472/ "Can you believe it’s been a year since we went into lockdown? The past 12 months have been filled with uncertainty, but one thing is for sure: stress levels are soaring. Let’s take the time to learn how to channel our stress, negative energy, and longing of the past into something more useful. Learn resilience skills for anything life throws your way."
There's an open online event coming up on 17th March: more info and registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-feminism-tickets-143291800633 "a joint event organised by the Department of Informatics and the Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) at King's College London. DDH and Informatics are taking the Data Feminism book as an opportunity to explore broader collaborations between students and staff in our respective departments around how feminist perspectives can enrich our work with and about data."
Hi Alex, here's a blog post from Next Generation Internet about their instant messaging applications - it might be of interest to you & your readers: https://www.ngi.eu/news/2021/01/15/instant-messaging-the-ngi-way/
Here's an ISOC page that collects more information about this event: https://insights.internetsociety.org/shutdowns/4992
Cory Doctorow, digital rights activist and science-fiction writer, also wrote about this RFC: https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/florida-man/#user-agents
Pingback: This article was republished by Jaap van Till on his blog: https://theconnectivist.wordpress.com/2020/10/01/the-internet-is-for-the-empowerment-of-users/
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