To submit your draft proposal, please edit this page OR send a mail with subject "Event Proposal" to v14 AT battlemesh.org.
Current List of Proposals
- Topic: Wi-Fi 7
Name: Paul Fuxjäger (twitter: @fuxjaeger, fediverse: cypherhippie@chaos.social)
- Type of event: Talk
- Duration: 30 min
- Preferred date(s): all days are OK for me
(Optional) affiliations: https://funkfeuer.at
- Summary: All you every wanted to know about Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) but were too afraid to ask. Like: how many antennas and what kind of channels widths and modulation schemes are supported? What else has been added to 802.11ax?
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- Topic: LAC Internet community networks - for training teams and developers
- Name: Jésica Selene Giudice
- Type of event: Talk/debate
- Duration: 40-60min
- Preferred date(s): all days are OK for me
(Optional) affiliations: https://AlterMundi.net
- Summary:
- How are community networks in Argentina?
How do we work at AlterMundi in the area of training and support for NCs?
- Can people without prior deep technical knowledge deploy the first nodes of their own network?
- How can software developers approach NCs of this type? What do we need from you? What can we do for you?
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- Topic: Wireless network with agro-ecological farmers, near Bologna
- Name/Nick: Andrea
- Type of event: panel discussion
- Duration: 1h
- Preferred date(s): is the same
- (Optional) affiliations: (e.g. community, country, employer)
Summary: A brief description of our experience in Bologna from the 2017 to now. https://antennine.noblogs.org
and some ideas of the design that we used, the talk would be a retrospective of a work in progress. How to be reactive to the human structures and needs.
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- Topic: Current State of the Chip Wars
- Name: Marek
- Type of event: Talk
- Duration: 30mins
- Preferred date(s): all days are OK for me
- (Optional) affiliations:
- Summary: Where are the chips all coming from - and why are they sometimes stopping to come? First hand experience and insights into hardware supply-chains within the WiFi/Router/Embedded sector and beyond.
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- Topic: Mesh Routing for Beginners
- Name/Nick: mwarning
- Type of event: talk
- Duration: 15min
- Preferred date(s): any
- Summary: What is mesh routing and how does it work? Can't we just flood everything?
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- Topic: New and old protocols for mesh routing Scenarios
- Name/Nick: mwarning
- Type of event: talk
- Duration: 30min
- Preferred date(s):
- Summary: An overview of old and ad-hoc new mesh routing protocols. Who works on them, what does they come from.
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- Topic: Testing on mesh routing with (virtual) Satellites
- Name/Nick: mwarning
- Type of event: talk
- Duration: 15min
- Preferred date(s): any
- Summary: I created a simulation of virtual satellites inspired by Starlink and let them mesh. OLSR on satellites? :P
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- Topic: Battlemesh Assembly
- Name/Nick: all the battlemesh participants (proposed by Clauz)
- Type of event: discussion
- Duration: 1 hour (or more)
- Preferred date(s): September 21 or 22
- Summary: Meet all together to discuss the status of the battlemesh event and its community, where we are heading at, v15 location proposals.
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Topic: DSA: TurrisOS & Openwrt
- Name/Nick: Fabys (ninux.org)
- Type of event: talk
- Duration: 20min
- Preferred date(s): any
Summary: Distributed Switch Architecture - TurrisOS tips & Openwrt status.
Template
- Topic:
- Name/Nick:
- Type of event: (e.g. hackathon / talk / workshop / panel discussion / other)
- Duration: (e.g. 30 min or 1 hour for talks)
- Preferred date(s): (September 19, 20, 21, 22)
- (Optional) affiliations: (e.g. community, country, employer)
- Summary: (a couple of sentences on the planned content)
Call for Participation
Topics:
- Wireless Community Networks
- Mesh Routing Protocol Development
- Free hardware and free software for Community Networks
- Community Networks that deploy Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) networks
- TV white space as a precious network resource (radio spectrum)
- How to organize a durable community structure?
- How to involve non-technical people? To "digital stewardship" and beyond?
- How to disseminate the spirit of community networks, knowledge etc?
- Connecting rural areas: challenges and solutions
- Public fiber networks: architecture, funding, private actors involved, oversight
- Internet of Things (IoT) networks and their impact on society
- Local Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) as a common infrastructure