Beste NLNOGers, ... now switching to English ... you know my Dutch is too limited :) The eighth meeting of the German Network Operators Group (DENOG) will be held in Darmstadt, Germany on the 23rd and 24th of November 2016. We are pleased to hereby invite applications for presentations or lightning talks to be held at this event. General Information =================== DENOG is a community for professionals within Germany who are operating, designing or researching the Internet. It provides a technical forum where those working on, with and for the Internet can come together to solve problems with every aspect of their (net)work. The meeting is designed to provide an opportunity for the exchange of information among network operators, engineers, researchers and other professionals close to the network community. More information about DENOG (in German) can be found at http://www.denog.de/ Information about the meeting will be published at http://www.denog.de/meetings/ Meeting Countdown ================= What When ------------------------------------------------------ Publication of Call for Presentations May 10, 2016 Deadline for all submissions August 31, 2016 Publication of preliminary program September 30, 2016 Deadline for receipt of final present. November 7, 2016 Meeting Days November 23/24, 2016 Topics for Presentations/Talks ============================== The DENOG Programme Committee is seeking presentation proposals from the community for the meeting days. The meeting will have one single track of presentations. Length of presentation incl Q&A should last between 20 - 30 minutes. Lightning Talks are linmited to a maximum of 10 minutes. Feel free to send in as many presentations as you want. DENOG meetings are very network centric and we are looking for presentations covering topics of network engineering and operation. These topics could be: - Network and resource planning - Data centre technologies - Network and routing security - Internet peering - IPv6 deployment - Network operations Language of Slides and Talks ============================ To appeal to a wide international audience we ask you to keep the spoken language of your presentation to English and also produce the slides in English. Recordings and Publications =========================== We will publish your slides and a video recording of your talk after the event. We kindly ask you to honor the copyright of any media in your presentation. Should you have any concerns regarding any form of publication please get in touch with the program committee before the event. Submission Guidelines ===================== All submissions must have a strong technical bias and must not be solely promotional for your employer. We strongly discourage product marketing talks. Please remember that your presentations should be suitable for a target audience of technicians from varied backgrounds, working for companies whose sizes may vary considerably. To submit a proposal for a presentation, we request that you provide the following information as plain text or PDF format to <pc@meeting.denog.de>: * the name of the presenter (and if applicable your affiliation) * a working email address * the title of the presentation * its expected length (in minutes) * the preferred spoken language for the presentation * a short abstract of the presentation (not more than 200 words) We will collect all submissions until the deadline for submissions and then will collectively vote on all submissions. You will receive feedback once the final decision has been made. We also welcome suggestions for specific presentations which you feel would be valuable to the DENOG community. If you have any questions or requests concerning presentation submissions please send mail to <pc@meeting.denog.de> Best regards and see you in Darmstadt Arnold -- Arnold Nipper email: arnold@nipper.de phone: +49 6224 5593407 2 mobile: +49 172 2650958 fax: +49 6224 5593407 9