Blog entries for "community"

TechWomen Mentor - The Power of Mentoring - Looking Forward

I was so honored to participate in the TechWomen mentoring program in the summer of 2011. Meeting and working with my mentee, Sanae Baatti from Morocco, was a life changing experience. I wrote some about the TechWomen experience last summer. I was deeply honored as well, to travel to Morocco last fall with a state department sponsored TechWomen mentor and mentee delegation.

TechWoman in Marrakesh-an October '11 update

As I wrote in June (link to my last techwomen blog), I've been deeply honored this year to participate in the inaugural round of the TechWomen initiative, a program of the US State Department, as a technical mentor.

UKNOF is 20...what next ?

The 20th meeting of the UK Network Operators' Forum will take place on Tuesday 6th September, hosted by Hewlett Packard at HP Labs in Bristol, and also sponsored by Arbor Networks.

BIND 9 Development at ISC

ISC has begun implementing several methodology changes relating to BIND 9 development. The goals of these changes is to increase our software quality and relevance to you, our customers. Some of these are more internal, but we hope the outcome of these changes are that the effects are positive and noticed by those outside of ISC.

As with all changes, we’ll get some of it right and some we’ll have to revisit and modify as we learn. We welcome any feedback about where we are now, where you would like us to be, and as we progress along our path.

The Signed Root Is Coming! (And what this means for you)

In the Fall of 2009, the organizations responsible for generating the root zone, ICANN, Verisign, and the US Department of Commerce, announced that they had come to a agreement on how to sign the root zone with DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions) A website has been created by ICANN and Verisign to provide information about the change and a rollout timeline.