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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?

• 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?

• 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.

• 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.

• Topic: Mesh Routing for Beginners
• Name/Nick: mwarning
• Type of event: talk
• Duration: 15min
• Preferred date(s): any
• Summary: What is mobile ad-hoc mesh routing and how does it work? Can't we just flood everything? What are the different approaches?

• Topic: New and Old Protocols for Mesh Networks
• Name/Nick: mwarning
• Type of event: talk
• Duration: 30min
• Preferred date(s):
• Summary: An overview of old and new protocols for mesh networks. Who works on them, where does they come from.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• Topic: Q&A on the recent release of OpenWrt 22.03.0

• Name/Nick: Hauke
• Type of event: questions-and-answers session
• Duration: 1 hour
• Preferred date(s): any day is fine!

• Affiliation: OpenWrt

• Summary: A new release of OpenWrt, 22.03.0, was published on September 6, 2022. In this session, Hauke will answer your questions about the new release.

• Topic: Gluon Update! 2022
• Name/Nick: T_X
• Type of event: talk
• Duration: 30min.
• Preferred date(s): any day

• Summary: An overview of what's new and "new" in Gluon since the last talk at WBMv10 (including a security issue this year - so, srsly, update! ). Gluon is a modular firmware framework for mesh networks, based on OpenWrt, popular in Freifunk communities.

• Topic: Decentralized manufacturing of open source connectivity infrastructure
• Name: Eric Nitschke
• Type of event: Talk/debate
• Duration: 1-2 hrs.
• Preferred date(s): Any
• Affiliations: wakoma.co
• Summary:
  • How can we enable communities to use locally available materials and network hardware to deploy mesh networks?
  • In what ways can distributed additive manufacturing be used to build customized/localized (and portable) networks faster and cheaper?
  • How can decentralized production enable community networks to be more resilient in the face of supply chain disruptions?

• Topic: Localized services and content production and sharing.
• Name: Eric Nitschke
• Type of event: Talk/debate
• Duration: 1-2 hrs.
• Preferred date(s): Any
• Affiliations: wakoma.co
• Summary:
  • Much of the world is within reach of the internet but don't use it because they don't find it relevant or meaningful.
  • How can we better enable people to produce their own content in their own language(s) relevant to their own communities?
  • What role do/can self-hosted services, mesh. IoT, P2P, federation, sneakernet, etc. play in the creation and dissemination of localized content and services?

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