Hi all,

We’ve locked in the timeslots for the upcoming Community VCs, which will be focused on the Working-Groups.  These are intended to be an opportunity to discuss and throw in new ideas, and to identify what’s going well and what needs work – so come prepared for a chat!

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GNA-G Community VCs Q1 “a” 2023

The first pair of VCs will take place next week, with updates from the Routing WG, the Network Automation WG, and the GREN Map WG.

VC #1: Wednesday, 15 February 2023, 6am-8am UTC

Most suitable for participants from Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and Europe.

Registration Link: https://aarnet.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcod-mgpz8qEtOHR30D-VEBt5e2wrqwClRh

VC #2: Wednesday, 15 February 2023, 8pm-10pm UTC

Most suitable for participants from North America, Latin America, Africa, and Europe.

Registration Link: https://aarnet.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqd-qsqDIvGNzbD7heKG231qJ7bZkl4kZe

(Full details here: https://www.gna-g.net/attend-a-meeting/gna-g-community-vcs-q1a-2023/)

Three new proposed WGs will also be introduced, with a call for participation:

• GREN Engineering Advancement – aimed at identifying how we can collaboratively agree on and standardise ways to operate GREN links better (ANA, AER, etc)
• Subsea cable sensing and smart cables – a forum for technologies, deployment and its implications, data gathering, security, and research engagement.
• GREN vulnerability risk review – we’ve recently seen outages due to sabotage. The Global NREN CEO Forum has asked the GNA-G community to do a review of the GREN to review its resilience to outages, whether accidental or malicious, and identify potential weak spots which could benefit from additional redundancy or security.

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GNA-G Community VCs Q1 “b” 2023

Two weeks later, Harvey Newman will be hosting a single VC with a deep dive into the AutoGOLE/SENSE and Data Intensive Sciences WGs, with discussion around SC22 & SC23 activities.

Again, this is intended to be very much a working meeting, rather than a series of presentations.

VC: Tuesday, 28 February 2023, 3pm-5pm UTC

Registration Link: https://aarnet.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAudOCrqzovHdHA5vIW6BwlTvVMZR1jQS31

Full details here: https://www.gna-g.net/attend-a-meeting/gna-g-community-vcs-q1b-2023/

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Look forward to seeing you all there!  It’s going to be an exciting year…

David

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David Wilde 

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From: David Wilde <David.Wilde@aarnet.edu.au>
Date: Tuesday, 17 January 2023 at 4:51 pm
To: GNA-G Community <all@lists.gna-g.net>
Subject: Welcome to 2023, and "hold the date"

Hi all,

On behalf of the Leadership Team, welcome to 2023!  I hope that this coming year is productive and fun for all of you.

At the last Community VCs, we pencilled in a pair of upcoming VCs for this week to be focused on Working-Group updates.  We’ve decided to push this back a month to give us a bit more time to prepare.  In order to have enough time for each Working-Group, we’re also planning on running two pairs of VCs.

Please pencil in 15 February 6-8 am UTC and 8-10 pm UTC for the first pair of VCs.   Event page with registration links is at https://www.gna-g.net/attend-a-meeting/gna-g-community-vcs-q1-2023/

The second pair will likely be on 28 February, however we’re still finalising the best time-slots for this one.

Looking forward to seeing you then!

Regards,

David

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David Wilde   --   CTO | AARNet

T. +61 (0)3 9211 8447 | M. +61 (0)410 166 011 | E. david.wilde@aarnet.edu.au