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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 talk + 30mins discussion

• Preferred date(s): Tuesday & Wednesday

• (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 Community Meeting
• Name/Nick: all the battlemesh participants (proposed by Clauz)
• Type of event: discussion
• Duration: 1 hour (or more)
• Preferred date(s): Last talk before closing ceremony on September 21
• 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): Tuesday September 20

• 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

• 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

• 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