Diversity Matters at RIPE 83
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Fostering diversity and inclusion on a whole variety of different fronts has long been a big part of the work that goes into preparing RIPE Meetings. Here's a look at what diversity means at RIPE 83.
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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.
RIPE Community Resilience: Every Society Has the Internet they Deserve
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OSI Layer 9 is "political". Let's explore non-Westphalian views on society, and the impact of coronavirus pandemic on inequalities, justice and digital technologies. I am inviting you to work together on imagining and building utopian Internet of the future.
RIPE Community Resilience: Economy of Care
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The need for community actualisation is equivalent to the financial Layer 8. The COVID-19 pandemic offers a path to alternatives to capitalism: ecofeminism, degrowth, unions, and the circular economy. Caring and maintenance are resistant to paradigms of unlimited growth and disruptive innovation.
RIPE Community Resilience: The Web, The Self, The Privilege and The Pandemic
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Social media, apps, web... are only the tip of the iceberg that is the Internet. This article - on Layer 7 of both the networking stack and Maslow's motivational pyramid - explains how the personal need towards self-actualisation can contribute to the resilience of the communities and societies.
RIPE Community Resilience: Nature is Healing
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To address the topics of RIPE community health, the OSI Networking Model is mapped to the Maslow pyramid of needs. In this instalment of the series, Vesna Manojlovic connects Layer 6 and the aesthetic needs.
RIPE Community Resilience: Embracing Neurodiversity
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Cognitive needs - for understanding, curiosity, exploration, knowledge - are strong in the technical communities. We are also known for the high prevalence of diverse neurotypes. This article celebrates the inclusion and care of all our quirks.
RIPE Community Resilience: SYN-ACK, Boundaries and Doing Less
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The lower the layer on the pyramid of needs is, the more important it is for person’s resilience; however, all layers of the networking stack are equally important for the resilient Internet. In this instalment of the series, Vesna Manojlovic connects the Layer 4 and the need for esteem.
RIPE Community Resilience: Network and Belonging
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The lower the layer on the pyramid of needs is, the more important it is for person’s physical and mental health; however, all layers of the networking stack are equally important for the resilient Internet. In this instalment of the series, Vesna Manojlovic goes to the third layer - network connec…
RIPE Community Resilience: Safety Net
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In this third article on community resilience I move on to the "Link Layer" according to TCP/IP stack and how it relates to meeting the need for safety: economic security, avoidance of risks and absence of harm.
RIPE Community Resilience: Physical Layer
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To have a healthy Internet, RIPE community members need to maintain healthy bodies and healthy minds. The additional stress of COVID-19 makes it even more important to take care of the Physical Layer of a network(er)!
Transcript & the video of the session about environmental impacts of digital/Internet technologies can be found here: https://eurodigwiki.org/wiki/Building_cross-stakeholder_awareness_and_understanding_of_the_direct_and_indirect_environmental_impacts_of_digital/Internet_technologies_and_how_to_mitigate_them_–_WS_04_2023 and https://youtu.be/FMX6pYK3eWg
IETF draft has been published for the report from this workshop: "Report from the IAB Workshop on Environmental Impact of Internet Applications and Systems, 2022" https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-ws-environmental-impacts-report/
Here is the video recording of the talk and panel about Internet history: "Remembering the Internet Revolution in Belgrade" : https://ripe85.ripe.net/archives/video/881/
In October 2022, at RIPE85 meeting in Belgrade, there was another talk and another panel about Internet history: "Remembering the Internet Revolution in Belgrade" https://ripe85.ripe.net/archives/video/881/
Here is a link to the video recording of the presentation & the panel: "Technical history of Internet Infrastructure in ex-Yugoslavia" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohp-MKVVYjQ&t=17478s Jelena Cosic (RIPE NCC) & Slobodan Markovic (UNDP) "Internet in Yugoslavia - From JUPAK to IP" (slides) https://www.ripe.net/participate/forms/uploads/fobi_plugins/file/see-10/Internet%20in%20Yugoslavia-FINAL_0f14b91c-6c4e-40e4-9ab3-b132acf8057c.pdf
I am happy to add the link to the presentation I gave about this topic at MCH2022 conference - please find the video here: https://media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-442-computing-within-limits#t=203
New links, to even more events: GEANT events, e.g.: Community Cloud Operators BoF, 6 June https://events.geant.org/ Computing within LIMITS: 21-22 June 2022. https://computingwithinlimits.org/2022/ A New HOPE: 22-24 July 2022, New York City & virtual (the ticket is 99$!) https://hope.net/ NORDUnet: 3-15 September 2022, Iceland https://nordu.net/save-date-nordunet-conference-2022/ Bits & Bäume: October 1st to 2nd, 2022. Berlin https://bits-und-baeume.org/ RIPE85: 24-28. October 2022 Belgrade, Serbia https://ripe85.ripe.net/ Internet Governance Forum: 17th IGF 28 November-2 December 2022. Ethiopia https://www.intgovforum.org/en
Please join today's "open consultation" // feedback session about RIPE NCC's "cloud strategy" at 4PM CEST. Link to zoom is here: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/2021-September/003469.html
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
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