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NANOG 53 Update
by Betty Burke 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

Everyone, A registration fee reminder: - Early Bird Registration through August 15, 2011 (non-member $450, member $425, student $100) - Standard Registration starting August 16, 2011 (non-member $525, member $500, student $100) Also, please get those presentation submissions in! NANOG 53 is just a few months away, you will not want to miss an opportunity to participate! Betty -- Betty Burke NewNOG/NANOG Executive Director Office (810) 214-1218

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2011 NANOG Elections
by Betty Burke 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Colleagues: Elections for three of the six elected positions on the NewNOG/NANOG Board of Directors will be held in October 2011, for two-year terms ending in October 2013. The current Board members whose terms are expiring are: • Steve Feldman • Sylvie LaPerriere • Duane Wessels • Mike Smith (Completing a vacant seat on the Board) Steve is term-limited and cannot be considered for re-election until October 2012. For more information about the role of the Board, or to find out more about what's involved in being a Board member, please consult the NANOG bylaws or contact someone who is already serving and ask them directly. http://www.nanog.org/governance/documents/By-Laws_20110104.pdf http://www.nanog.org/governance/board.html Per the bylaws, Board members must be members of NANOG and attend at least two of three NANOG meetings per year while in office. Also, a reminder, only NANOG members will be eligible to vote in the 2011 Election process. Confirmed candidates will also be asked to complete a questionnaire describing their qualifications, and to submit a statement of candidacy to be presented at the members meeting during NANOG 53." Each candidate must declare any and all affiliation(s) relevant to NewNOG, which will include his or her main employer, as well as any other major relationships (for instance, if a candidate's primary employer is a nonprofit entity which is sponsored by a vendor, the candidate would declare both the nonprofit and the vendor as affiliations). HOW TO NOMINATE SOMEONE If you care about NANOG as a forum, and think you would like to take a turn at volunteering your time to help make it better, please consider either volunteering yourself or nominating someone else. There is no limit to the number of nominations that may be submitted by a single person. Individual nominees will be contacted directly to confirm that they are willing to accept the nomination, and so that they can supply a biography for the NANOG web page. To submit a nomination, send the nominee's full name and contact details to nominations(a)nanog.org. The deadline for nominations is 11:59 PM EDT on Tuesday, September 6, 2011. The candidates are encouraged to make brief comments and/or accept questions from the community at the NANOG 53 Members Meeting. ELECTION TIMELINE As a reminder, the full election timeline is: August 9: Board Nominations begin August 6: Board Candidate information posted/nominations close September 6: Deadline for submitting bylaw amendments September 21: Ballot approved October 9, 2:00 PM EDT: Voting opens October 11, 5:00 PM EDT: Voting closes Results will be announced on September 12 at 9:00 AM EDT. Betty on behalf of the 2011 Elections Subcommittee -- Betty Burke NewNOG/NANOG Executive Director

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NANOG Board Announcement
by Steven Feldman 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

I am sad to announce that Robert Seastrom has resigned from the NewNOG Board of Directors, effective yesterday. Rob has served on the Steering Committee, transition team, and the board for the past three years, and has provided valuable insight and assistance throughout the transition of NANOG to a standalone organization. I thank Rob for his service to the community, and look forward to his continued participation as a member. Since this creates a vacancy on the board with more than two months remaining until the next election, the Bylaws require the remaining board members to appoint a temporary replacement to serve until the election. At that time, a permanent replacement will be elected to fill the remainder of Rob's term, which ends in October 2012. Accordingly, the board has selected Michael K. Smith to fill the vacant position between now and the October Election. Mike has been serving as Communications Committee chair for a few years, as well as assisting with budgeting, technical planning, and many other behind-the-scenes tasks during the transition. Please join me in thanking Rob for his service, and in welcoming Mike to the board. Thanks, Steve Feldman, chair

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please submit your talks for NANOG 53!
by David Meyer 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Folks, NANOG 53 is fast approaching. Please submit your talks for the program! Thanks, Dave (for the NANOG PC)

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NANOG 53 Call For Presentations available!
by David Meyer 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

Folks, The Call for Presentations for NANOG 53 is up on http://nanog.org/meetings/nanog53/callforpresent.php Looking forward to your submissions and seeing you all in Philadelphia. Dave (for the NANOG PC)

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additional hotel information for NANOG 52
by Steven Feldman 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Late breaking news: The Warwick Denver Hotel has set aside some rooms for at a special rate of $159/night. To make reservations using this rate, call the hotel directly at 303-861-2000 and ask for Customer Reservations. At last check, there were 19 rooms left for the Tuesday night, and plenty of availability for the other nights. Steve

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updated NANOG 52 registration and hotel information
by Steven Feldman 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Two items for those of you still working on your NANOG 52 travel arrangements: - Today is the cutoff for the standard registration fee. After today the fee increases by $75. - The Sheraton is completely sold out for the night of Tuesday, June 14. We have not been able to secure additional room blocks, but we did find two hotels nearby that still had availability as of last night. They are: Grand Hyatt Denver 1750 Welton Street, Denver, CO 80202 Tel: +1 303 295 1234 Fax: +1 303 292 2472 http://www.granddenver.hyatt.com/ Warwick Denver Hotel 1776 Grant Street, Denver, CO 80203 Tel: +1 303 861 2000 Fax: +1 303 832 0320 http://www.warwickdenver.com/ See you in Denver! Steve

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Lightning talks open for NANOG 52
by David Meyer 31 May '11

31 May '11

Submit yours now! Look forward to seeing you in Denver. Dave (for the NANOG PC)

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NANOG 52 overflow hotel possibility
by Steven Feldman 29 May '11

29 May '11

It appears that the primary hotel in Denver for NANOG 52 is close to being sold out for the night of Tuesday, June 14. We are exploring alternate hotels nearby. It might be possible to get a small room block with a discounted rate at a hotel a few blocks away, but NewNOG would need to guarantee a minimum number of room nights and pay for any shortfall. So, if you have not yet made hotel reservations for NANOG 52 but plan to do so, please reply privately to me with your name and the exact nights you would need. We will use that information to determine if there is sufficient demand to guarantee the additional room block. In exchange, we'll let you know first if the additional block at the alternate hotel becomes available. Thanks, Steve

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NANOG transition update
by Steven Feldman 24 May '11

24 May '11

A lot of progress has been made since NANOG 51, so I'd like to share this update with the community. * Association management contract We recently completed our RFP and selection process, and have contracted with Association Management Solutions (http://www.amsl.com) to provide association management and meeting support services for NANOG. We are excited to be working with AMS, as they have an excellent set of management and IT services which are very good fits to our needs. AMS might already be familiar to some of our community, as they have providing IETF secretariat services for the past several years. Representatives from AMS will be with us in Denver to observe the conference and meet the community. Over the next couple of months our meeting registration, membership, mailing list and finance systems will be migrated to AMS infrastructure. The transition has already started, and will be completed in time for the start of registration for the NANOG53 meeting. We'll share more details of the transition process as they become available. * NANOG Intellectual Property All of the NANOG intellectual property originated by Merit Network, including the name, domain, logos, mailing lists and archives, have been transferred to NewNOG. This means that we _are_ NANOG! We expect that the interim name "NewNOG" will eventually go away. * Non-profit status NewNOG, Inc. has been recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. (See http://www.newnog.org/docs/IRSletter.pdf for the IRS determination letter.) This means that individual donations might be tax-deductible. * Future conferences Work continues on securing hosts and venues for future NANOG conferences. The current list of future events is at http://www.nanog.org/meetings/future/, and we expect to have the October 2012 meeting ready to announce in the next few weeks. And if you haven't already registered, please plan to join us at NANOG52 in Denver next month! The Program Committee has published a great agenda, and the hotel block is filling fast. The hotel group rate expires on May 29, and the conference registration fee goes up on June 4, so please register soon! More information is at http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog52/. We welcome any questions or comments, and we'll give another update at the community meeting in Denver. For the board, Steve Feldman, chair

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