Dear colleagues I would like to introduce you to PTNOG - Portuguese Network Operators Group. PTNOG is an an open group of people and organisations that operate the Internet infrastructure in Portugal. This forum has the mission to exchange information, technical experiences and have open discussion of all matters related to the Internet in Portugal. The intention is to increase cooperation between the various networks operating in Portugal in addition to welcoming participation from international network operators. This group was founded by Denesh Bhabuta (UKNOF, DNS-OARC), Eduardo Duarte (DNS.PT), Carlos Friaças (FCCN) and João Damas (ESNOG, ISOC-ES, APNIC), who work in the Internet industry and have cooperated in various international forums. The absence of a forum in Portugal to bring together network engineers and operators to meet, interact, discuss and exchange knowledge to improve the Internet, prompted them to form PTNOG. We are organising the first meeting of the Portuguese Network Operators group - PTNOG1, taking place in Lisbon during the afternoon of 10 October 2017 (venue to be confirmed). The draft agenda (subject to change) is published on the PTNOG1 page: http://ptnog.pt/ptnog1.php We are open to receiving your presentations too. If you have something to share with the community, please send your proposals to: info@ptnog.pt. The presentations must be of a network engineering, network operations or technical topic. Presentations of a purely commercial nature will not be accepted. Registration for the event is scheduled to open within a few weeks. To receive information about PTNOG1, please subscribe to the meetings mailing list: http://ptnog.pt/mailman/listinfo/reunioes_ptnog.pt Finally, we are still looking for financial support for this and future events, so if you would like to become a sponsor of this forum contact us, by email: info@ptnog.pt. More information about PTNOG can be found at: http://ptnog.pt/ Follow us: Twitter: @PTNOGnews Facebook Page: @PTNOGnews Facebook Discussion Group: https://facebook.com/groups/1992742797677661 Regards Denesh