NANOG Community,

I am excited to announce that 43 NANOG members accepted appointments to a committee. So many highly-qualified volunteers from the NANOG membership were nominated for this year’s committee selection, and we personally thank each NANOG member who offered their time.

As an organization, NANOG was founded by volunteers who developed a quality forum for North America’s operator community. Despite the growth in NANOG’s programs, volunteers greatly outnumber professional staff. The volunteer-only committees drive many of the ideas for growth and development in the organization and community as a whole. 

Please join me in congratulating the appointed committee members:

Audit Committee

Tom Beecher, Tim Burke, and Marlin Martes

Community Engagement Committee

Kate Gerry, T. Marc Jones, Darren Kara, Marlin Martes, Giulia Reading, Larissa Santos, Kelly Sieben, Clara Wade, and Les Williams

Elections Committee

Frank Basso, Tom Beecher, Dave Friant, Courtney Hooglander, Tony Tauber, and Michael Voity

Hackathon Committee

Barrie Cook and Saim Khan

Mentorship Committee

Hosein Badran and Alex Latzko

Moderation Committee

Tim Burke, Kate Gerry, Ryan Hamel, Jeremy Johns, and Darren Kara

Program Committee

Naveen Achyuta, Jeff Bartig, Phil Bedard, Nick Bogle, Daniel Chioreanu, Mikael Holmberg, Tom Kacprzynski, Nimrod Levy, Michael Long, Sergey Myasoedov, Tim Nowaczyk, Adair Thaxton, Krassi Tzvetanov, Les Williams, Ron Winward, and Chris Woodfield

Workshop Committee

Jeff Bartig, Yolandi Cloete, John Kristoff, Fearghas McKay, Stevan Plote, Saju Salahudeen, Steve Ulrich, and Clara Wade

We are truly excited to see what develops for NANOG over the next year working with these volunteers.

Please also join me in thanking and recognizing the many contributions of committee alumni who have termed out: 

Audit Committee

Charles Rumford

Community Engagement Committee

Stephen Hartmen, Louie Lee, Alejandro Silvestre, and Akeyla Wallace

Education Committee

Alex Bortok, Ron Kovac, and Reddy Urmindi

Elections Committee

Leif Sawyer

Hackathon Committee

Kate Gerry, Toni Kalombo, Dhairyasheel Patil, and Charles Rumford

Program Committee

Alex Latzko, Nagendra Nainar, Stevan Plote, and Michael Voity

Volunteer participation from these members on NANOG committees developed new programs, brought new ideas and new methods into practice, and helped to evolve the NANOG organization. We would not be where we are without their time and contributions.

We look forward to continuing working together to build the Internet of tomorrow, and hope to see you at a NANOG conference soon!

Sincerely,

Valerie Wittkop

(On behalf of the NANOG Board of Directors)