RIPE OpenSource WorkingGroup

A RIPE Meeting takes place over multiple days and brings together Internet service providers, network operators and other interested parties from around the world to: Participate in discussions about the policies and procedures used by the RIPE NCC to allocate Internet number resources.

Part of the meeting is organized in Work Groups for traditional areas such as Routing, Address Policy etc. Martin Winter started a new working group in 2013 dedicated to Open Source in the Networking Space, together with Ondrej Filip (Bird, CZ.NIC). Our goal was to get better cooperation between the Internet Providers as frequent users of Open Source and the Maintainers and Developers in the Open Source. More details for the working group can be found at RIPE Working Group Page

As part of organizing the Working Group, there were various presentations by Martin Winter and other members of NetDEF at the RIPE meeting