Re: Where else do you hangout?

[John Kristoff via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:35:46 -0400
Mark Prosser via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:

> Where do you spend most of your time, outside of this mailing list?
> Why do you like it there? What kind of folks hangout there?

I don't use a lot of social media or spend much time in real-time chat
platforms or forums, especially where the community is larger than a few
dozen. The useful conversations there are often too fleeting and lost
among so much mindless dope fuel.

There are a few private Slack spaces that can be useful to be at but I
don't spend much time them.  Some of the public ones include
openobservatory, internethealthreport, chinog, and
networkautomationfrm, and sigcomm.  On Discord you can find
networking:ix, bgpeople, and the RPKI space from NLnet Labs.

There is, or least there was a NANOG IRC channel.  I never spend much
time there and I've not looked at IRC in a years now since most groups
I did once join have largely died out.

IMO, this list is the place to be for serious NANOG people and
operational matters in and around North America.  The outages list
is related and useful to watch too.  There are other adjacent lists from
other communities such as the IETF of course, RIPE (and other regions or
RIRs), network security-oriented coordination groups, dns-operations,
and the puck lists (now that they're back :-).

John
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