A day where we invite everyone from the NOG community to get together to socialize, talk about current networking related topics and listen to presentations about interesting developments without worrying to end up in some sales trap!
A point of view outside your network is absolutely essential, seeing what others see is a useful thing with a variety of network problems. The RING provides a 'shell access' exchange between all participants to make it easier to debug network issues and troubleshoot 'from the outside'.