Join APNIC's IPv6 Hackathon

APNIC is hosting its first hackathon event on 23 - 25 February 2018, in Kathmandu, Nepal, co-located with the APRICOT conference. Participants will work together on finding creative new ways to help promote IPv6 adoption and deployment.

We are proud and honoured to take part in the first hackathon organised by APNIC. We are happy to help by spreading the word in our communities, advising on the organisational and logistics details, and attending as facilitators and topic experts, bringing RIPE Atlas measurements data, pointers to previous hackathons code, and statistical data about IPv6 deployment.

Of course, there will be stroopwafels...

Please find here the link to the original announcement of the event, and the copy of the announcement is below.

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What are ‘Hackathons’?

Hackathons (hacking marathons) are events where a group of people work together on a pre-defined set of problems, intensively, for a period of a few days.

Mostly 'hacking' means coding, programming, software development - but there can be other creative activities involved. Although a Hackathon could be competitive, the APNIC Hackathon will be a cooperative/collaborative activity, creating free and open source products.

Hackathons bring together network operators, researchers, designers, students, developers, testers and maybe even experts in other areas (journalists, analysts, activists, lawyers, etc.) who could also contribute through their experience and background, despite of not having technical skills.

Attendance to the first APNIC Hackathon is free but will be limited to 25 participants.

Applications are necessary and open to all. A committee will select the participants based on their skills, diversity and geographic spread. Participants do not need to know a specific programming language or technology, but must bring their own computer to the hackathon.

Key Dates

Applications open	Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Applications close	Friday, 12 January 2018
Application review	Monday, 15 - Friday, 19 January 2018
Selected applicants announced	Monday, 22 January 2018

At APRICOT 2018 Kathmandu

Hackathon evening session	19:00 (UTC +8) Friday, 23 February 2018
Hackathon all-day session	Saturday, 24 February 2018
Hackathon morning wrap up	Sunday, 25 February 2018

Why participate

Socialize with other professionals
Exchange ideas and points of views about topics related to Internet measurements and Internet infrastructure
Learn new skills

Participants will also receive an APNIC Hackathon T-shirt, a certificate of participation and a chance to win assorted prizes. Teams with the most interesting results can also submit their project to the APRICOT PC for a lightning Talk opportunity at the conference.

Who should apply

Informatics professionals (Developers, testers, designers, etc.)
Telecommunications professionals (Networks/Telecoms engineers, networks administrators/operators, etc.)
Researchers working on Internet measurements, networking or similar projects
Advanced students of technology degrees

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Topic: IPv6

Although it has been more than 20 years since the 'new' version of the Internet Protocol was introduced by the IETF, it has not been fully deployed yet. Different metrics show that many networks are already using IPv6 but still there is work to do.

Participants will identify and help resolve IPv6-related challenges. Some ideas are listed below, although other ideas of projects related to IPv6 are welcome to be considered for this hackathon: