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The application process for the Hackathon @ AIS is now open. The Hackathon@AIS is an event aimed at exposing engineers from the African region to Open Internet Standards development and is co-organized by ISOC and AFRINIC. This will be the second event in the series following a successful event held in Nairobi last year during the Africa Internet Summit. 

Please look at https://hackathon.internetsummitafrica.org/ to see the topics that will be covered this year.

Network/System engineers, software developers, and or computer science students are encouraged to apply as engagement in open Internet standards development can help further their careers.

The event will be held on the 9th and 10th of May 2018 in Dakar, Senegal. If you are interested in participating AND can commit to being available over the 2 days, please fill the application form. Space is limited and successful applicants will be notified and then be enrolled in various online training sessions in the build up of the event. 

Fellowships will be awarded to strong applicants where possible. 

Click here to apply: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/R6MPTYQ

Applications close on the 8th of April 2018.

The community is hereby informed that at its meeting of 21 March 2018, the AFRINIC Board, in accordance with article 3.4.4 of the Consolidated Policy Manual (CPM), ratified the policy proposal “Lame delegations in AFRINIC reverse DNS” as per below resolution:

Resolution 201803.395

WHEREAS the proposed policy AFPUB-2017-DNS-001-DRAFT-02 (Lame delegations in AFRINIC reverse DNS) has passed through the Policy Development Process;

WHEREAS the Policy Development Working Group’s Chairs have referred the proposed policy to the Board for ratification;

RESOLVED that the policy is ratified by the Board

AFRINIC will now start the necessary steps and process for the immediate implementation of this policy, and inform the community once the implementation process is completed.