On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:35:46 -0400 Mark Prosser via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Where do you spend most of your time, outside of this mailing list? Why do you like it there? What kind of folks hangout there?
I don't use a lot of social media or spend much time in real-time chat platforms or forums, especially where the community is larger than a few dozen. The useful conversations there are often too fleeting and lost among so much mindless dope fuel. There are a few private Slack spaces that can be useful to be at but I don't spend much time them. Some of the public ones include openobservatory, internethealthreport, chinog, and networkautomationfrm, and sigcomm. On Discord you can find networking:ix, bgpeople, and the RPKI space from NLnet Labs. There is, or least there was a NANOG IRC channel. I never spend much time there and I've not looked at IRC in a years now since most groups I did once join have largely died out. IMO, this list is the place to be for serious NANOG people and operational matters in and around North America. The outages list is related and useful to watch too. There are other adjacent lists from other communities such as the IETF of course, RIPE (and other regions or RIRs), network security-oriented coordination groups, dns-operations, and the puck lists (now that they're back :-). John