Battlemesh v13

Email contact: v13 at battlemesh.org

The event aims to bring together people from across the globe who are interested in community networks, including wireless mesh network technologies, fiber infrastructure, Do-It-Yourself Internet Service Providers, and more generally how to create and maintain a thriving community of people involved in building their own networks.

We envision 2 days full of expert presentations, practical workshops, late-night hacking sessions, and fruitful discussions: whether you are a mesh networking enthusiast, community networking activist, protocol developer, or have an interest in networking in general, come and join us!

You will meet developers from the most popular open source mesh protocol implementations: Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N. L3 and L2, BMX6, IEEE 802.11s, OLSR.

Important dates

The event takes place online on 2020-11-14 and 2020-11-15.

Where

Online

Battlemesh v13 will be a virtual event, hosted on a bigbluebutton instance.

• Big Blue Button Event Room: Big Blue Button room

• Streamcopy on Youtube: Youtube channel

• Small Jitsi Rooms Jitsi small room 1

To get in touch via keyboard:

• Chat:

  • Matrix (requires register, but facilitates follow up): https://app.element.io/#/room/#freenode_#battlemesh:matrix.org

  • IRC Chat (no need to register): https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=battlemesh&uio=d4

• Email: public mailing list https://ml.ninux.org/mailman/listinfo/battlemesh

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/battlemesh

• Mastodon: @battlemesh@toot.aquilenet.fr

Hybrid spaces

Despite being a virtual event, we provide here a list of suitable spaces for a "hybrid"-like event, where small groups of people can meet and participate. Please add the location (address, contact, max. number of people and available seats).

• Zurich, L200. Langstrasse 200, 7-8 people. More info: https://langstrasse200.ch/, Contact: panos@nethood.org

What

In brief: we will have organized talks, workshops and discussion panels on community networks and wireless mesh networks (see Call for Participation). There will also be more informal activities: cooperative hacking, self-organized projects, and (we hope) delightful conversations!

Full schedule: #Talk_Schedule_and_Workshops

In addition, there may be a self-organized wireless mesh network, running different routing protocols to compare them. Please coordinate directly on the battlemesh mailing list to make that happen.

How to register

The event itself is free of charge and open for all! However, it makes the organisation much easier if you tell us in advance that you plan to come.

To register, please send an email to v13 at battlemesh.org with the following content:

Subject: Registration

Name and/or Nick

Other details you want to share: (e.g. community, country, URLs, twitter/mastodon handle, ...)

Do you agree to appear on the public wiki list of participants? [Yes/No]

We will then put your name on the public list of participants: https://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV13/Participants

Call for participation

We invite participants to propose workshops, talks or panel discussions relating to network infrastructure in general, how it can be built and operated as a common, and how to sustain a community around networking.

We welcome contributions that broadly address these questions from any of several perspectives: technical, organisational, economical, regulatory, juridical, political.  Example topics:

• Wireless Community Networks
• Community Networks that deploy Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) networks
• TV white space as a precious network resource (radio spectrum)
• Free hardware and free software for Community Networks
• 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
• How to take advantage of a community network in ways otherwise not possible? What are the applications?
• Local Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) as a common infrastructure
• DNS as a common infrastructure?

Deadline: (01 November 2020)

To submit a proposal, send us an email (v13 at battlemesh.org) with the template below. All information you give us will be made publicly available in the schedule, unless explicitely specified otherwise.

Subject: Event proposal

Name and/or nick
Optional affiliation: community, country, employer...
Event title
Type of event [talk / workshop / recurring workshop / panel discussion / other]
Duration [20 min or 45min for talks, anything you want otherwise]
Frequency [for recurring event]
Preferred date / constraint

Summary (about 200 words)

Talk Schedule and Workshops

This is the schedule as of 2020-11-13, still subject to minor adjustments.

To submit a proposal, please add it to the talk proposals page!

Saturday November 14

Sunday November 15

Live streaming and video recordings

All talks and panels are live-streamed and recorded. We assume we will use BigBlueButton which has a built-in recording facility.

Endorsements

• Network Bogotá endorses BattleMeshV13: Announcement in English

• Freifunk endorses BattleMeshV13: Announcement in German

• Funkfeuer endorses BattleMeshV13: Announcement in German

• ninux.org endorses BattleMeshV13: Announcement in English

• OpenWrt endorses BattleMeshV13: Announcement in English

• exo.cat endorses BattleMeshV13: Announcement in Catalan

Misc

Battlemesh Coversongs

TODO

Hardware

Please add any hardware that you are willing to allow remote participants to access:

Impressions from previous Battlemesh events

• Battlemesh v9 Presentations

• Battlemesh v9 Social Moments

• Battlemesh v8 Presentations

• Battlemesh V7 Video

• Video clip from the mesh testbed installation for WBMv6 at Aalborg University Campus

• Another WBMv6 clip

• Video clip made at WBMv5 to give you a feeling what this event is like

• Video clip made at WBMv4

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Task List

This task list is kept here to track who is responsible for certain things. Please notify on mailing list before you add yourself here. Local team will be inserted here as well, tasks may be added/merged on the go.

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