EuroNOG – an international meeting of experts responsible for the design, maintenance and development of ICT networks. The first edition will be held on the 30th September 2011 in Krakow (Poland). Subsequent meetings will be held annually in various cities in Europe. Our main goal is to build a platform to exchange experience between the operators, ISPs and companies responsible for network implementation.

National borders are becoming blurred, and increasing international cooperation is a key element of the Internet development. At the same time, due to various technical and economic conditions, in each of the European countries the development of networks diverged in a different way. Therefore it is difficult to compare and easily transfer ready-made solutions from one country to another – just look at the networks in Scandinavian countries compared with countries from Southern Europe – different solutions, architectures and equipment. It is best for us to exchange experience and learn from best practices used by local players on the European market.

What sets us apart from the RIPE, TERENA and other IX meetings?

Certainly, our conference is not academic, we do not want to focus only on the theoretical backgrounds of the IP world. We want to provide the greatest number of good practices and presentations including deployment case studies. Our point of view resembles NANOG, as we are looking at Europe through the prism of a global network, treating each country as a state – strong co-operation but also territorial autonomy. The EuroNOG conference will be a vendor-independent meeting place for experts.

If you are interested in cooperation in the first edition of EURONOG please send an e-mail to the organizers: jakub.koziol{@}proidea.org.pl and andrzej.targosz{@}proidea.org.pl. We will try to answer your questions as soon as it will be possible. We are open to all your propositions and suggestions, so do not hesitate, we are waiting for messages from you.

We would like to kindly inform, that the First EuroNOG Meeting will take place on the 30 March, 2011 in Galaxy Hotel in Krakow (POLAND). We have invited several English speaking guests, who will share their experience. If you have any suggestions what we should talk about, what should we focus on, we encourage you to send your remarks to jakub.koziol{@}proidea.org.pl or andrzej.targosz{@}proidea.org.pl. We would also like to invite for the unique workshops, which will be held in the days before and following conference.

All volunteers are welcome to submit their own proposals for CfP.