At a Glance 204 watched the webinar (270 registered) .. from at least 75 cities and towns (one from Pandemonia) .. from 17 countries - (who knew Pandemonia was "somewhere over the rainbow"?) .. representatives from at least 124 organisations .. 43 (21%) were first time attendees at a UKNOF meeting .. 171 max concurrent views
There were 7 speakers and 7 presentations . <https://uknof.uk/virtualJuly2020> Dear colleagues The second virtualUKNOF took place yesterday, Monday 20th July. We would like to thank you and everyone - participants, speakers, patrons, partners, the UKNOF crew - who helped make it a great success. A smaller UKNOF crew (Chris, Keith and me, Denesh) were joined by Ian Chilton and Richard Irving - both from LONAP - and Brandon Butterworth from Bogons, who helped with the rehearsals and running of the show in the background. Rob Lister (LONAP) joined us to run the quiz. We are grateful for LONAP's annual Patronage financial support of UKNOF and as co-host of this meeting. Richard Irving (MD, LONAP) shares a few thoughts: "LONAP have been supporters of UKNOF for a number of years as we believe that open, community meetings are the best way to share and build knowledge in our industry. I’d like to thank the UKNOF Program Committee who do excellent work in finding such interesting content for us three times a year, it is no easy task, and also to the UKNOF crew who run the events so professionally." ===== [HOW ] Some of the operations on the day were slightly different to our first virtualUKNOF. We had learned and thus implemented. We have learned more from this one and will implement at the next one on 7th September. Brandon (Bogons) and I were the Producers (webinar hosts & admins), Keith and Chris were the Presenters (meeting Chairs), Richard and Ian were the session monitors, (Richard on Timekeeping and Ian on Q&A). Chris & I jointly managed the social media, and Chris also kept an eye on the UKNOF channel on our chat server. Doing rehearsals worked very well last time, and we continued with these. We normally have a meeting planning and checklist document. This time around we also had a much more detailed run of show for the meeting itself (all crew and speakers had access to this) which ran from 15 minutes before the crew and speakers joined the green room until the end of the quiz. We ran our meeting backchannel on our Mattermost chat server, as we had done for the previous meeting. The change this time was for the audience where we locked down the Zoom side chat so it was only for announcements, and we asked delegates to join a public channel on our chat server for the "side chat". It did get quite busy in there and we currently have 188 people subscribed to it directly and many more accessing it through the temporary IRC bridge in place. This continues to be a new experience for us as we constantly learn better (and newer) ways of doing things - through running these things and by observing other online conferences... ===== [ ARCHIVES ] We have an archive of presentations and recordings for our meetings. All the virtualUKNOF July 2020 presentation slides are linked to each of the agenda items at: . <https://uknof.uk/virtualJuly2020> The video recordings are currently being post-processed and we will email you again once these are available. ===== [ SPONSORS ] We would like to thank our meeting sponsors Rahi Systems and Arista. Here are a few words from them: Rahi Systems = We are happy to support UKNOF and the community and hope you enjoyed the talk about “Transforming Network Automation at the Edge” from our Partner ZPE Systems. Please take four minutes to share your insights with Rahi Systems and ZPE. We will select five respondents who will each receive a Network Operator tool-kit, valued at £100.00 r.r.p. https://bit.ly/2ZAIKrg Arista = Arista is proud to be a sponsor of the virtual UKNOF meeting co-hosted by LONAP. Arista's software solutions, built on cutting edge silicon, are enabling operators to build networks that can adjust to a rapidly evolving and dynamic landscape - leveraging advanced routing features and high-speed port density, automation from the ground up and full visibility of the control, data and management plane; out of the box, with event-driven state-streamed telemetry. For further information, please contact either David Murray; [email protected], or Stuart Steele; [email protected]. ===== [ PATRONS ] Patronage shows support of UKNOF over a period of a calendar year and enables UKNOF to be more effective in being able to offer its unique service to the community. We would like to thank our patrons so far in 2020: Principal: British Telecom, LONAP Premium: Centurylink, Flexoptix, IPv4 Market Group, RIPE NCC If you would like to be a Corporate Patron, please refer to the document at the link below: . <https://uknof.uk/patronage> [ FRIENDS ] Being a "Friend of UKNOF" gives you the opportunity to contribute toward the aims and sustainability of UKNOF from around £5 per month and upwards. To become a “Friend of UKNOF” patron and read the benefits you will receive, please visit: . <https://uknof.uk/friends> [ PARTNERS ] We would also like to thank our partners who continue to provide us with services in kind, enabling us to spread UKNOF far and wide: Bogons, Portfast ===== [ NEXT TIME ] We are pleased to announce the next virtualUKNOF will take place on Monday 7th September, 2020 - so please add this date to your diary. Registrations will open in around a couple of weeks. We are now open to proposals for talks for the September. If you would like to present at the next virtualUKNOF, please submit an abstract via the Call for Presentations page at: . <https://uknof.uk/virtualSeptember2020> ===== [ FOLLOW ] A reminder that you can subscribe to our low volume discussion mailing list and various social media channels. Mailing list: <http://lists.uknof.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uknof/> LinkedIn: <https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=1713597> FaceBook: @uknof.uk Instagram: @uknof.uk Twitter: @uknof YouTube: UKNOFConf We now also run an industry collaboration and discussion chat server at <https://uknof.uk/chat>. You may sign up for an account via: <https://chat.uknof.org.uk/signup_user_complete/?id=jinormi7y3869884s5ri96sgfc> ===== Best Regards Denesh Bhabuta UKNOF Events Planager
