Dear colleagues, The first day of RIPE 82 kicked off with 1,093 attendees registered for the meeting. Here are the highlights: - The meeting was opened by Mirjam Kuhne, the RIPE Chair, who welcomed attendees for our third fully virtual RIPE Meeting. - Presentations throughout the plenary sessions were well attended with over 637 participating on Meetecho and more joining in via the RIPE 82 livestream and YouTube. - We wrapped up the first day with informal sessions to meet the new RIPE Chair Team, Mirjam Kuhne and Niall O'Reilly, and the RIPE NCC Executive Board. You can catch up with what happened on Day One by reading our Daily Meeting Report: https://ripe82.ripe.net/programme/report/ Today we start with the working group sessions: Address Policy, Open Source, Connect, and Cooperation. You can find the meeting plan at: https://ripe82.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/ Also, join the discussion at the BoF on the 'RIPE Code of Conduct Update and Next Steps' scheduled today at 17:30 UTC+2: https://ripe82.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/bof/ -------------------- PC Elections -------------------- Call for nominations is still open until 15:30 (UTC+2) today. You can nominate yourself or someone else by sending an email with a biography, statement of interest and photographs, to pc [at] ripe [dot] net. There are currently two seats up for election to the RIPE Programme Committee. The RIPE PC online voting system will open today at 16:00 (UTC+2) and close on Thursday, 20th May, 17:00 (UTC+2). The results will be announced during the closing plenary on Friday. --- Stay tuned to what’s happening at RIPE 82 by following @RIPEMeeting on Twitter and using the #RIPE82 hashtag. Kind regards, Martina de Mas RIPE Meetings Team