Wireless Battle of the Mesh v9 - Sponsor Information

About Battlemesh

The Wireless Battle of the Mesh is yearly recurring event that aims at bringing together people involved with wireless mesh networks from across the world to test the performance of different routing protocols for ad-hoc networks, like Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N., BMX, OLSR, 802.11s and Static Routing. The location changes every year, and this years 9th edition will take place in Porto, Portugal from May 1st to 7th 2016. We expect approx. 60 to 100 wireless hackers, mesh developers (802.11s, Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N., BMX, OLSR, Babel, ...), OpenWRT developers, WISP and WiFi community people, students, academics, WISP people and enthusiasts from all over the world. It is a tournament with a social character, we will set up a mesh of 50+ devices to run and compare different wireless mesh protocols. There will also be talks and workshops scheduled to synchronize the proceedings in development in the various communities.

Impressions from last years

• Battlemesh V7 Video's by Stefan van Hooft: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjdaTaDJvaVzotzdFSpblCVegRpHgGPLG

• Video clip from the mesh testbed installation for WBMv6 at Aalborg University Campus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2Aqeqy9pw4

• Another WBMv6 clip: http://vimeo.com/87030048

• Video clip made at WBMv5 to give you a feeling what this event is like: http://vimeo.com/39412090

• Video clip made at WBMv4: http://vimeo.com/21953373

Looking for Sponsorship

The Wireless Battle of the Mesh is an event solely organized by mesh community people. Since we would like to keep the event affordable event for students, we are looking for sponsorships by local companies, institutions, and international companies involved in mesh and wifi networks.

We would like to use money funded by sponsor for:

• offer travel scholarships for non-EU participants if they can't make it otherwise
• venue and organization costs (cleaning, transport, rent, ...)

We would like to use hardware sponsorship sponsor for:

• setting up a more extensive test network at the event
• enabling the companies to introduce their devices to the wireless communities and developers
• involve engineers and companies with OpenWRT and other open-source efforts in wireless networking

We also offer sponsors to get involved and get visible, e.g.:

• send staff people to come and visit, give talks, etc
• put flyers/posters at the venue
• sponsors will be mentioned on our website, the talks and posters

Please note that we will have a few limitations:

• we won't accept sponsorships from companies focused on military customers and political parties
• we will not allow influence of sponsors into any organization decisions of the event

Financial handling

The technical institute INESCTEC will be the legal entity behind the organization of this years Wireless Battlemesh. The preferred way is to establish a Memorandum of Understanding on basis of which the donation is made, but depending on your companies/institution requirements they are flexible to sort out the paperwork.

Contact information

Please let us know if you consider sponsoring, or if you need any further information. To get in contact with the organization team directly, please write an e-mail to:

• v9@battlemesh.org

For general information and participating, please check our mailing list:

• http://ml.ninux.org/mailman/listinfo/battlemesh

Further resources:

• http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV9 - Wireless Battle of the Mesh v9 page