Vesna Manojlovic is a Community Builder, hacker, mother, facilitator, trainer, feminist, artist, activist.

Contact: BECHA@unciv.nl

LinkTree

Personal Website: https://becha.unciv.nl

CV on LinkedIn: https://nl.linkedin.com/in/becha/

Social Media: @becha@v.st (Mastodon) https://social.v.st/web/@becha

GitHub contributions: https://github.com/becha42

YouTube videos of my presentations: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJD5uaec7bwyDUPN7VJOHiEzcAYd2x9XS

Author Profile on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha

Conferences Speaker Profile, RIPE NCC https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/press-centre/publications/speakers/vesna-manojlovic &

Archived Presentations, on behalf of RIPE NCC: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/press-centre/publications/presentations/@@presentation_authorname=Vesna%20Manojlovic

Work

RIPE NCC

Roles History:

Trainer 1999-2003; 
Senior Trainer 2004-2008; 
IPv6 RIPEness: 2009-2010; 
Senior Community Builder for Measurements Tools: 2011-2016; 
Hackathons Organiser 2014-2019; 
Diversity & Sustainability Expert 2020-present

Short Bio

Vesna Manojlovic is Senior Community Builder at RIPE NCC. Vesna joined the RIPE NCC as a Trainer in 1999. Nowadays, she gives presentations at technical conferences, on topics such as resilience, measurements tools, diversity, ethics in technology, and Internet Governance. Vesna received a Batchelor of Sciences Degree in Computer Science and Informatics from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. She has three children.

https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/

Writings

June 2023: PS Magazine: AI is Ecocide https://www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/ai-climate-change-what-role-paris-targets-2023-09 & https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/AI_is_ecocide

June 2023, Environmental Impact of Internet: Urgency, De-Growth, Rebellion https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/environmental-impact-of-internet-urgency-de-growth-rebellion/

December 2022, "A Plea For Climate Justice" https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/a-plea-for-climate-justice-report-from-the-iab-workshop-on-e-impact/

December 2021, blog post "Technical communities’ resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic" https://www.netnod.se/blog/technical-communities-resilience-during-covid-19-pandemic

2020: The Internet if for Empowerment of End Users https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/the-internet-is-for-empowerment-of-end-users

December 2013, article I published at Nature Bats Last: ¨Hackers Ethics for the World After Collapse¨ : http://guymcpherson.com/2013/12/hackers-ethic-for-the-world-after-collapse/

December 2012, My vision about the Future Internet, as published by Xs4all's "Internaut Cookbook", in Dutch: https://cdn.xs4all.nl/media/overxs4all/publicaties/The%20Internaut%20Cookbook%20app%20XS4ALL.pdf

Contributions

RFCs
- "Report from the IAB Workshop on Environmental Impact of Internet Applications and Systems, 2022" https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9547/
- RFC7962 (2015-2016) "Alternative Network Deployments: Taxonomy, Characterization, Technologies, and Architectures" https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7962

Teaching

I teach students on the subjects of Internet Governance & Environmental Sustainability:

Diversity

I have been working on improving JEDI within hackers community, RIPE community & IETF since 1996.

• 2013-2014: I organised series of women-focused events at TechInc
 • I maintain wiki pages: https://wiki.techinc.nl/Ladies_Night & 
 • https://wiki.techinc.nl/Female_experts
• I have been part of “awareness team” at TechInc hackerspace and at OffDEM events.

RIPE:

• 2016: attended Diversity, Equity, Inclusion training, Budapest
• 2018: I have been part of RIPE “Trusted Contacts Team” 
• 2023: attended Code Of Conduct Team training, Amsterdam 
• 2023: I have been part of RIPE “CoC Team” ripe.net/coc

Moderation: since 2022, I have been curating / moderating RIPE “Diversity in Tech” sessions e.g.

• 2022 https://ripe85.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/diversity-in-tech/
• 2023 https://ripe86.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/diversity-in-tech/
• 2023 https://ripe87.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/diversity-equity-inclusion/
• 2024 https://ripe88.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/diversity-equity-inclusion/

Publications:

• 2022: Building Bridges https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/building-bridges-between-diverse-communities-at-ripe-85/
• 2021: Diversity Matters at RIPE 83 https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/diversity-matters-at-ripe-83/
• 2021: Embrace Neurodiversity https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/ripe-community-resilience-embracing-neurodiversity/
• video NLNOG 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycrl7NI8sOY

Feminism

Focus on Activism, Peace, Feminism:

• I have been active in peace movement & feminist actions since 1994 in Yugoslavia.
• in 1997, I took part in 1st CyberFeminist International at Documenta X, Kassel 
• Hacking Feminism: https://wiki.techinc.nl/Ladies_Night
• Data Feminism https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/data-feminism-from-data-ethics-to-data-justice/

NVC

I am a certified NVC mediator (Non-Violent Communication conflict resolution)

Skills: consensus building, empathic listening, intersectional liberation & conflict resolution

Degrees:

I first learned NVC in 1998, in “Peace School” (in Serbo-Croatian)
In 2010, I finished Basic NVC Course (in English, in Amsterdam, from Yoram)
In 2018, I took Intermediate Course (in Dutch, from Miriam and Cara)
In 2019, I finished 6 months "Mediator Course" (from Yoram)
In 2022, I attended an Intensive International NVC Week in Slovenia

https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/NVC

Conferences

Tech / Activism / Community / Art

2023, RIPE86: The Environmental Impact of Internet: Urgency, De-Growth, Rebellion https://ripe86.ripe.net/archives/video/1001/ & https://wiki.techinc.nl/File:Xs-vesna-e_impact-ripe86-short-and-long.pdf

2022, Bits und Bäume: Greening RIPE Through Activism & Empathy https://media.ccc.de/v/bitsundbaeume-19907-greening-ripe-though-activism-and-empathy-en-

2021, NLNOG: Community Wellbeing & Mental Health: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycrl7NI8sOY (30 minutes video) & slides https://www.nlnog.net/static/nlnogday2021/pandemic_resilience.pdf (speaker)

2020, FemLens: HER|visual|STORY, the digital photography Festival https://i1.wp.com/femlens.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/3.png?resize=1024%2C1024&ssl=1 (participant)

2019: Museum of Modern Art, Novi Sad (participant)

2017, Paradiso, Amsterdam: https://wiki.techinc.nl/File:Paradiso-zero-days.pdf (speaker)

https://www.paradiso.nl/programma/1968-2018-voorpremiere-zero-days/125024

2018: Alchorisma, Hasselt, Belgium (participant)

2018, Re:publica, Berlin: https://18.re-publica.com/en/session/governing-internet-infrastructure-commons & https://18.re-publica.com/en/member/14358 (co-author)

2016, GogBot, Eindhoven: https://2016.gogbot.nl/program/vesna-manojlovic/ (speaker)

2015, CCC Camp: https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Session:IncreaseGenderDiversity (co-organiser)

2015, CCC Camp: https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Session:Ants_and_Squirrels_UnCivilization_ReUnion (organiser)

2014, AMRO, Linz: Art Meets Radical Openness; Festival dedicated to Art, Hacktivism and Open Culture https://www.radical-openness.org/en/vortragende/vesna-manojlovic (panelist, speaker, participant)

1998, Virtual Revolutions 2, V2_Lab in Rotterdam: https://v2.nl/events/virtual-revolutions/?searchterm=virtual%20revolutions (participant)

FLOSS / Internet Infrastructure / Ethics

2021, NLUUG, https://youtu.be/2HstoqAFn9g (video) & [slides]

2017, FOSDEM, Interview: https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/interviews/vesna-manojlovic/ (speaker) -> presentation links in the interview

2017, BalCCon, Novi Sad: Ethics in Technology https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/File:Balccon2k17-ethics-ripe-atlas.pdf (speaker) (video (include link!?))

2017, NLUUG https://www.ripe.net/about-us/press-centre/publications/presentations/2017/ethics-in-technology-nluug-najaar-2017

2016, FOSDEM, Brussels: OpenSourcing RIPE Atlas (speaker)

2015, APRICOT, Japan: https://vdocument.in/ipv6-ripeness-and-ripe-atlas-ipv6-measurements-by-vesna-manojlovic-apricot-2015.html (speaker)

2014, SEE4: IPv6: From 4 to 5 stars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phQs_D8MLD8 (speaker)

2014, FOSDEM, Interview: https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/interviews/2014-vesna-manojlovic/ (speaker)

2011, EuroDIG, Belgrade: IPv4 & IPv6, addressing Internet Infrastructure

2010, IPv6 Space Odyssey, Ede, the Netherlands, "Your Slice of the IPv6 Cake", https://www.slideshare.net/ripencc/your-slice-of-the-ipv6-cake

2009, SIGINT https://media.ccc.de/v/SIGINT09_3194_en_addressing_the_future_of_internet (speaker)

2009, HAR2009 "First woman on native IPv6 and other tales" https://infocon.org/cons/Hacking%20At%20Random/Video/First%20woman%20on%20native%20IPv6%20and%20other%20tales.mp4 (speaker)

2009, ESNOG/GORE, Madrid: https://www.esnog.net/gore3/gore3-files/es.nog-NCC_news.pdf (speaker)

2008, DENOG: https://www.ripe.net/media/documents/2016-11-DENOG8-RIPE_NCC.pdf

2007, CCC Camp, RPSL workshop: https://becha.home.xs4all.nl/routing-registry-bgp-tutorial.pdf (workshop leader)

2005, APRICOT, Kyoto, Japan: Using Routing Registry and Related Tools for Configuring Routers http://apricot.net/apricot2005/slides/C5-4_2.pdf (speaker)

2004: (speaker / lecturer)
- LINX Meeting, London, UK: An Introduction to the Routing Registry http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/presentations/linx-rr-200411/page1.htm
- Benefits of using RIPE Routing Registry and Related RIPE NCC Tools Telfor, Belgrade, CS , November 2004 http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/presentations/rr-telfor-20041124/page1.htm
- RIPE Routing Registry and Related RIPE NCC Tools, Ficix Workshop, Helsinki, FI , June 2004

http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/presentations/ficix-200410/page1.htm

2001, HAL2001, DNSsec workshop (co-organiser, speaker)