- Wireless Meshup
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- Travel Scolarships
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Wireless Meshup
The Wireless Battle Mesh v11 (#WBMv11
) and the Wireless Community Weekend 2018 (#FFWCW18
) will be meshed up and co-located in Berlin from May 07 to May 13, 2018. Since it is the 15th anniversary of the WCW, friends and fellows from across the globe celebrate together wireless mesh network technologies and ideas of community networking.
You can expect to meet with tech experts in mesh technologies, policy discussions, talks, hands on workshops, late night hacking sessions, measurement campaigns and an ongoing barbeque at the riverside. If you are a mesh networking enthusiast, community activist, or simply have an interest in wifi or dynamic routing protocols, you can't miss this event!
You can contact the organizers team by writing to organizers AT wireless-meshup.org.
News
17.04. We received a lot of applications for travel scholarships this year, most are from Brazil, Cameroon and US. That's why we are now trying to gather *additional* funding (on top of what we get from ISOC) for supporting as many as we can.
–> If you happen to know an organization that may be interested in supporting us, please let us know: organizers@wireless-meshup.org
–> For donations please find details here: https://www.wireless-meshup.org/doku.php/donations
03.04. Call for talks is out! We look forward to your contributions and ideas
03.04. The schedule starts growing, please register e.g. for Elektras Open Freifunk Maximum Power Point Tracker (MPPT) Soldering Workshop https://www.wireless-meshup.org/doku.php/solderworkshop or our trip to Holzmarkt https://www.wireless-meshup.org/doku.php/holzmarkt.
02.04. T-Shirt color poll is over, the winner is Burgundy :)
26.03. Thanks to our Sponsors we are happy to provide travel scholarships to enable members of wireless communities to attend the event. Send us a short video: https://www.wireless-meshup.org/doku.php/travelscolarships
21.03. Please find here how to endorse our next wireless community event! https://www.wireless-meshup.org/doku.php/endorsements
18.03. Wir suchen Lehrer*innen aus Berlin, die Interesse an einem Freifunk Projekt haben. Bitte tragt Euch im Schedule ein
17.03. Want to meet core devs of mesh routing protocols? - Register yourself as participant!
Location
We are meeting at the c-base space station, 3 minutes from public transport S+U Jannowitzbrücke in the heart of Berlin.
There you will find the main hall with the bar for presentations, discussions and hacking, a seminar room for up to 15 for workshops, two spaces for a smaller groups in the basement and upper floor and not at least the fully equipped riverside with powersockets, light close to the grill station. For the weekend we booked another room for presentations at European Theater Institute right next door to the seminar room.
You will find yourself at Berlins most famous hackspace, where you can use repair and assembling shops as well as meeting with Berlin's net activists and hacker scene. freifunk.net is available, since the roof top node is part of the BerlinBackBone.
In case you need an invitation to get a visa, please send an email with an introduction and your details to organizers AT wireless-meshup.org
Location
7th May 2018 - 13th May 2018 c-base space station Rungestrasse 20, 10179 Berlin, Germany
Directions to S+U Jannowitzbrücke
From Main Station Berlin Hauptbahnhof
- take S3, S5, S7, S9 (City Railway) every 5 Minutes (8 min)
From Airport Berlin-Schönefeld
- take S9 (City Railway) to Spandau (35 min)
From Airport Berlin-Tegel
- take TXL (ExpressBus) to Berlin Hauptbahnhof (20 min)
- change to S3, S5, S7, S9 (City Railway) every 5 Minutes (8 min)
Catering and Accomodation
Catering
We hope to be able to cover the dinner catering fully. Breakfast is included in the hotel deal and we start at 11.00 am each day. Around the c-base there are also several options to grab something in between, if needed.
Wednesday evening we will also have a pleasure trip to Holzmarkt cooperative, please register here by editing the wiki without registration and put your name in the list: (add here the link that we would like to have in the schedule as well)
Beverages can be bought at the locations at affordable prices or brought with you.
Accomodation
BERLIN EAST SIDE GALLERY MEININGER Hotel
Am Postbahnhof 4, 10243 Berlin, Germany
Price: 33,00 EUR p.P/Night incl. Breakfast
Valid for:
- 07.05.2018 - 13.05.2018
- Triple/Quad rooms
- 50 Beds are reserved until 23.03.2018
- 25 Beds are reserved until 05.04.2018
- Payment at checkin - using cash or creditcard
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Booking from the reserved pool is only possible via email or telephone:
ap@meininger-hotels.com or +493031879767
Stating that you want to stay at “EastSideGallery” mention the Keyword: MESH
Booked Rooms will be held until 6pm on arrival day - please let them know when you arrive later.
Directions to S+U Jannowitzbrücke
From S Ostbahnhof
- take S3, S5, S7, S9 (City Railway) every 5 Minutes (2 min)
Or you take a 15 min walk :)
Ask your Berlin friends :)
Schedule
Format and topic of talks
We welcome proposals of anything you think may be of interest to mesh routing and community networking enthusiasts. Format is very flexible: presentation, talk, discussion, debate, practical workshop, or film screening. The default slot length is one hour (40 minutes talk + 10 minutes questions + 10 minutes break until next one). Lightning talks are short talks which can be put in the programm during the event, it's the perfect opportunity to present fresh projects/ideas. They are limited to 10 minutes followed by 5 minutes of questions.
- Mon-Fri - Hacksessions, Measurement Campaign
- Thu-Sun - Talks, Workshops and ongoing barbeque
To enter a proposal, please add it directly to the schedule below. This list is editable without creating an account, by just clicking the “Edit this tab link” on the right. In case self-editing fails for some reason, please put your proposal into a short mail to organizers at battlemesh.org with the details.
Rooms
- Mainhall can be used for hacksessions and talks, it has audio/video equipment, Thu-Sun talks will be live streamed and archived under https://media.freifunk.net
- Ceminar Room is good for workshops up to 15 people and has a beamer, no audio/video.
- ETI Room is available only Saturday and Sunday and has audience seating, audio equipement and beamer, no video.
- At the Riverside outside you will find powersockets and lights, it is nice for discussions and hacksessions, the grill is located next to it :)
Monday - May 7th
Time/Duration | Name/Title | Location | Done by | Presentation/notes |
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11:00 | Doors open | |||
12:00-13:00 | Welcome and Ice Breaker | Mainhall | ||
13:00-14:00 | Lunch | Mainhall | ||
14:00-15:00 | Start of the “Battle of the Mesh Protocols” (Measurement Campaign) | Mainhall | ||
15:00-19:00 | Workshops, Sessions - Please enter yourself | Main Hall, Ceminar room | ||
19:00 | Welcome Dinner | Mainhall |
Tuesday - May 8th
Time/Duration | Name/Title | Location | Done by | Presentation/notes |
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11:00 | Doors open | |||
13:00-14:00 | Lunch | Mainhall | ||
14:00-18:00 | Workshops, Sessions - Please enter yourself | Main Hall | ||
14:00-14:15 | NexMesh - the first mesh network mined cryptocurrency | Main Hall | Tom Calvert | |
14:00-18:00 | Freifunk in der Schule und OER | Ceminar room | Bernd (JSFB), Monic | Detailinfos und Ablauf |
19:00 | Turkish Buffet | Mainhall |
Wednesday - May 9th
Time/Duration | Name/Title | Location | Done by | Presentation/notes |
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11:00 | Doors open | |||
13:00-14:00 | Lunch | Mainhall | ||
14:00-18:00 | Workshops, Sessions - Please enter yourself | Main Hall, Ceminar Room | ||
16:00 - 17:00 | Poprouting applied to WCN | Gabriele Gemmi | Discover what's Poprouting and learn how to implement it in your WCN using PRINCE | |
18:30 | Guided tour, Dinner and Beering | Holzmarkt cooperative | http://www.holzmarkt.com | Learn more and please RSVP here for a trip to holzmarkt. Start @c-base mainhall for a walk |
Thursday - May 10th
Time/Duration | Name/Title | Location | Done by | Presentation/notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
11:00 | Doors open | |||
12:00 | Start of the ongoing BBQ | Riverside | ||
12:00-18:00 | Talks,Workshops - Please enter yourself | Main Hall, Ceminar room | ||
15:00-16:00 | Brainstorming on “Open Infrastructure Orbit” @35c3 | Riverside | all intersted | |
16:00-17:00 | Two Years of the netCommons.eu Project | Main Hall | Leonardo Maccari | What we did so far for Community Networks, what we plan to do in the next months, ideas on what may comes after… |
17:00-18:00 | Community Network Special Interest Group - ISOC | Main Hall | Panos, Thiago, | Vision, mission, working groups and collaborative process for the development of community networks around the globe |
Friday - May 11th
Time/Duration | Name/Title | Location | Done by | Presentation/notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
11:00 | Doors open | |||
12:00 | Start of the ongoing BBQ | Riverside | ||
15:00-18:00 | Solder Workshop Freifunk-OpenMPP Tracker | Ceminar Room | Elektra | Please find details here and register for solderworkshop |
16:00-17:00 | Lockdown in the air: legislative agenda in Europe | Mainhall | Sebastian http://raible.org/ | Data retention legislation in Europe could soon be back on the European agenda. Implications this and other European legislative initiatives may have for the wireless community and society at large, at the example of the Radio “Lockdown” Directive (Radio Equipment Directive). |
17:00-19:00 | EU Radio Directive Updates & Roundtable | Mainhall, Ceminar room | Members of RSS Expert Group | |
19:00-20:00 | Datenschutz und Freifunk | Main Hall | Bea | |
20:00-21:00 | The Evernet - High Performance Mesh for Inet, Energy Transition and Local Services | Main hall | Thomas Hühn | Multi Gateway Load Balancing with Wireguard, Decentralised Smart Grid Monitoring, Village Radio … Mesh Router based public Voice Information |
21:00-22:00 | philosophical excursus | Main hall | Elektra | |
22:00-22:30 | musical interlude | Main hall | Bluse |
Saturday - May 12th
Time/Duration | Name/Title | Location | Done by | Presentation/notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
11:00 | Doors open | ||||
12:00 | Start of the ongoing BBQ | Riverside | |||
14:00-18:00 | Talks,Workshops - Please enter yourself | Main Hall, ETI Room, Ceminar Room | |||
13:45-14:00 | Lightning Talk: How to create and maintain (Urban) Commons | Main Hall | Mary D-L | This lightning talk will present the theory behind (urban) commoning in a way that activists and commoners can use and adapt to their own projects. Mary is currently working on a handbook-style book on this topic (The Urban Commons Cookbook), in which Wi-Fi will be one of the resources addressed. | |
14:00-15:00 | The Turnantenna project | Main Hall | Marco Musumeci | The Turnantenna is the new Ninux Community's project that makes you able to re-point an antenna trough remote control. No matter if it's mounted in a position that is not easily accessible: it will turn! | |
15:00-16:00 | GSoC Project 2018 | Main Hall | Andi + Students | ||
16:00-16:30 | Free Wireless Network Activism and the Industrial Media Infrastructures of Forced Migration | Main Hall | Tim Schütz | Handling asylum cases is considered a matter of the state – yet there is a booming “industry” around the asylum process in European countries. In this talk, I will present a co-authored article that investigates how Freifunk activists successfully intervened into the exploitative tendencies of this industry, but also how its modes of participation become increasingly entangled with it. | |
16:30-17:00 | Free Wireless Networks For Refugees: A Survey Protoype | Main Hall | Tim Schütz | Three years after the “long summer of migration”, there has been a wealth of studies on “Welcome Culture” and its particular type of humanitarinian intervention. In this talk, we will present the first draft of a survey that attempts to assess what “doing” free wireless networks for and with refugees looks like in 2018. Your participation and feedback on the survey are encouraged. | |
17:00-18:00 | Über die Freifunk Feststellungsklagen | Main Hall | Bea | ||
18:00-19:00 | Battlemesh Community Meeting | ETI Room | |||
19:00-21:00 | Presenting Measurement Campaign Results & Conclusion | ETI Room | |||
21:00 | vpn03 R.I.Pchen Party | Riverside | spareribs BBQ |
Sunday - May 13th
Time/Duration | Name/Title | Location | Done by | Presentation/notes |
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11:00 | Doors open | |||
12:00 | Start of the ongoing BBQ | Riverside | ||
14:00-16:00 | Talks,Workshops - Please enter yourself | Main Hall, ETI Room, Ceminar Room | ||
16:00 | Closing Session | Mainhall | all intersted | |
TBD before 14:00 or after 16:00 | Excursus & Roundtable meeting local urban activists | http://prinzessinnengarten.net/ | Panos | urban garden, 10 min walk of c-base |
Travel Scolarships
Thanks to our supporters we are happy to provide some travel scholarships that are given not only but prefered to people not living in Europe to enable members of wireless communities to attend the event.
1) Please apply for the travel scholarships by sending in a link with a 2-3 minutes video that answers the questions below until April 7th to organizers@wireless-meshup.org
We would like to ask you to describe your situation and contribution in short:
- Who are you, where are you from?
- Why would you like to attend Wireless Mesh-up?
- What impact in your local environment do you expect from your participation?
- What would your contribution/talk/session be about?
- How much would the flight cost?
- Do you need an invitation to get visa?
2) A jury composed by mentors and local Freifunk team decides on the best applications until 15th April.
3) Easiest way for Förderverein freie Netzwerke is, if you could pay upfront and provide us with the invoices with your name on it. But we can figure out together, how to deal with this in detail as it happens.
Participants/Registration
If you plan to attend, please add yourself early to this page and provide your meal preferences and t-shirt size, in case you want one (to edit the page you can click here). Start preparing your presentation, lightning talk, workshop, idea, announcement or open space you want to run. The event is *free of charge*, but contributions are very welcome, so please have a look at the supporters page as well, thanks in advance. T-Shirt will cost around 10 EUR.
# | nick/name | days | community | meal preferences | t-shirt size (unisex) |
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1 | dagelf | Tue-Thu | zenzeleni.net | baseband chips&co-creation | M |
2 | monic | Mon-Sun | freifunk.net | no preferences | M |
3 | clauz | ninux.org | no preferences | L | |
4 | Filipe B. Teixeira | INESC TEC | no preferences | L | |
5 | DanielP | Fri-Sun | freifunk.net | L | |
6 | mwarning | Freifunk Ulm/Bielefeld | XL | ||
7 | Andi Bräu | mainly Fri-Sun | freifunk.net | no preferences | L |
8 | Simon Wunderlich | Mo-Sun | B.A.T.M.A.N. | L | |
9 | Axel Neumann | Mo-Sun | BMX7 | no preferences | XL |
10 | Senthilkumar | Mon -Sun | openfreenet.org | No preferences | M |
11 | NeoRaider | Gluon | vegetarian | XL | |
12 | ordex | Mon-Sun | B.A.T.M.A.N. | L | |
13 | Henning | OLSR.org | XL | ||
14 | Panos Antoniadis | not sure yet | nethood.org | M | |
15 | Stefan Venz | XL | |||
16 | txt.file | Mon-Sun | Freifunk Chemnitz e.V. | vegetarian | S |
17 | jom | Sa -Sun | Freifunk Ansbach | No preferences | XXL |
18 | Carsten | Mo-Sun | Freifunk Hannover | No preferences | XXL |
19 | Vininc | Mo-Sun | Freifunk Essen | No preferences | M |
20 | wiedi | Sa-Sun | No preferences | M | |
21 | brosys | Sa-Sun | burger (No preferences) | M | |
22 | Debora Leal | Mon-Tue | Puris | vegetarian | P |
23 | thevoid/Nuri | Mon-Sun | HIIG | vegetarian | L |
24 | p1ng0ut | Fr-So | FF-Jena in Leipzig | mostly vegetarian, maybe a bit meat | XXL |
25 | drozdziak1 | Mo-Sun | mostly vegetarian | XXL | |
26 | Carsten | Fr,Sa | Freifunk Potsdam | No preferences | M |
27 | guifipedro | Mon-Sun | Guifi.net / eXO.cat | * | M |
28 | James Stevens | Wed-Sun | OWN Mazi | Vegetarian | XL |
29 | Catrinel | Thu-Sun | Embedded Wireless | Everything | L |
30 | Thomas Huehn | Mo-Sun | Evernet eG | everything | XL |
31 | Marcel Morsdorf | Wed-Sun | Freifunk Nord | everything | XL |
32 | Moritz | Wed-Sun | Freifunk Kiel | everything | M |
33 | Felix | Fri-Sun | Freifunk Leverkusen / VfN NRW e.V. | everything | L |
34 | Paul Fuxjaeger | Mo-Sun | Funkfeuer Vienna | M | |
35 | Math Jud | Mo-Sun | qaul.net | everything | S |
36 | Julius Schulz-Zander | Mo-Sun | secret freifunk | mostly vegan + meat | L |
37 | Krishna | Mo-Wed | TU Dresden | everything | M |
38 | Musuuu | Tue-Sun | ninux.org | no preferences | M |
39 | Michael | Mon-Sun | freifunk-mk | no preferences | 3XL |
40 | Hauke | Wed-Sat | OpenWrt | no preferences | L |
41 | Nina Tumanishvili | Mon - Sun | HelloHub | Vegetarian | M |
42 | Thijs van Veen | Mon - Sun | no preferences | XL | |
43 | lynxis | Mon-Sun | OpenWrt | vegetarian | L |
44 | ralphtheninja | Mon-Sun | anything | XL | |
45 | nbd | Mon-Sun | OpenWrt | anything | M |
46 | itec | Wed-Sun | ninux.org | no preferences | XL |
47 | Eduardo Coelho | Mon-Sun | no preferences | XL | |
48 | GG | Mon-Sun | no preferences | L | |
49 | Iwanovich | Mon-Sun | cheese hater | M | |
50 | Olaf | Mon-Sun | cheese hater | S | |
51 | flash | Freifunk Berlin | anything | S | |
52 | derhess | no preferences | |||
53 | Brian Hall | Mon-Sun | NYC Mesh | anything | M |
54 | Zach Giles | Mon/Tues-Sun | NYC Mesh | anything | M |
55 | Mary D-L | Sat-Sun | Commons Researcher | anything | |
56 | Gabriel | Sun-Sun | ninux.org | anything | L |
57 | dvn | Mon-Sun | vegan | L | |
58 | 3zl | Sun-Sun | i4free-gr | any | L |
59 | Ryan | Mon-Sun | no preference | L | |
60 | Lorena | Thu-Sun | co-Nectar/LASSE/UFPA | no preference | M |
61 | Moacir | Thu-Sun | co-Nectar/LASSE/UFPA | no preference | M |
62 | Thiago Novaes | Mon-Sun | coolab.org | no preference | M |
63 | yanosz | Fr-Sun | koeln.ccc.de | no preference | XL |
64 | adorfer | Thu-Sun | ffdus.de | !(molluscs||crustaceans) | none |
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Supporters
You can support the wireless-meshup in several ways!
Volunteer
You can volunteer to the organization of the event. Please contact organizers through organizers@wireless-meshup.org
- Battlemesh Mentors Group helps with remote organisation, wiki and promoting
- Berlin Freifunk community and c-base members are supporting onsite
Hardware
Please fill in which hardware can you bring to the wireless-meshup on the contribution's page. Or what else do you like to contribute, e.g. your local food specialties for the barbecue. Be creative!
Endorse the Event
Many communities endorse and support “Mesh is in the air”. Endorsing means to announce the event on your mailinglist, twitter, website, blog or podcast which will express your community's involvement in the event. For example, some people of your community might come to the event; some others help with organizing or hold one or more talks and so on.
Additionally but not obligatorily, your community could also donate hardware or money to the event.
You will find an up to date list of the endorsers of the event here. Please adjust the template to your audience, publish it and send the link and your logo to be included below.
Blog Ping-Backs and Media Coverage
Sponsors and Donations
Donations
If you want to donate some money for event insurance, catering, renting the place. Please reference „Wireless Mesh Up“ in case you transfer to the following bank account or use the betterplace campaign, where receipts will be sent automatically: https://www.betterplace.org/de/projects/12172-freifunk-net
Förderverein Freie Netzwerke e.V. IBAN: DE51100900007227227006 BIC: BEVODEBB (Berliner Volksbank)
Sponsors
Förderverein freie Netzwerke e.V. is organizing, sponsoring and promoting the event
Internet Society funds travel scholarships.
Guifi has donated and is promoting the event.
ODS Textildruck made a very good price for the T-Shirts, so we can offer EcoCotton-FairTrade-T-Shirts at an affordable price and use the margin to fund the event.
Contribution
Please fill in which hardware can you bring to the wireless-meshup on this page. Or what else do you like to contribute, e.g. your local food specialties for the barbecue. Be creative!
Name or handle | Quantity | Contribution |
---|---|---|
holger@baxmann.com | 1 | 10 nodes LAN-infrastructure |
Simon Wunderlich | 7 | WDR-4300 |
Förderverein | 10 | WDR-3600 |
Förderverein | 6 | Nanostations M5/M2 |