• BattleMeshV4

BattleMeshV4

We would like to give to the 'Battle of the Mesh' the flavour of a tournament with a social character. If you are a mesh networking enthusiast, community networking activist, or have an interest in mesh networks you might find this bunch of crazy folks gathering for the Wireless Battle of the Mesh V4 very interesting. This event is also an opportunity to meet developers from the most popular open source mesh protocol implementations (Babel, Batman, Olsr.org) and watch their ideas compete. If you have implemented an interesting mesh protocol capable of running on OpenWrt Kamikaze you can take part to the tournament.

Where

The BattleMeshV4 will be held at Sant Bartomeu del Grau (SBG for short), near Barcelona, Catalunia, Spain.

How to get there

• you can fly either Barcelona or Girona, both of them are the same

distance to Sant bartomeu del Grau and both have public transport to Vic (the closest town to Sant Bartomeu where you can get by public transport).

• From Roma there's a ferry to Barcelona, which is easy if you want to carry a lot of stuff.

More details will come up here.

When

From the 16-20th of March 2011.

What

In brief: we will deploy a wireless mesh network over the neighbourhood, run different routing protocols on top of it, perform some tests and see which routing protocol behaves better.

Side activities will be organized. Workshops and talks on wireless topics are on the time table (see below on this page)

Contact

Organization: AboutUs

you can also try irc.freenode.net, channel #battlemesh

Topics

• Tournament rules and regulations

Who will be there

Check out the /Participants page (and add yourself to the list if you are coming, please!).

== What to bring ==

• adapter plug for spanish power-socket
• Access Points
• Ethernet Cables
• switches and hubs
• your laptop

List of the hardware available for the WBMv4

• the "usual" stock of 80+ foneras (/tmp/lab)
• some more wireless equipements that we will gather/order and any

ideas are good to get

• Central server / flashing station
• Switches for massive flashing station
• Long distance antennas
• Some SDR/WSD devices ?

Hardware available for the WBMv4

Sleeping

We have several houses in the village where we can host you, or you can bring a tent and camp out.

Mailing List

To subscribe to the WBM participants' mailing list please visit this page: http://ml.ninux.org/mailman/listinfo/battlemesh

The archive of the mailing list is here: http://ml.ninux.org/pipermail/battlemesh/

FAQ

• Q: Can i post my question here?
• A: Yes.

Press Service

Add here your blog that talks about the Wireless Battle of the Mesh. Please add the URL of the specific BattleMesh article or tag #battlemesh.

Sponsors

If your organization wants to be a sponsor of the Battle of the Mesh V4 please write to <contatti AT PLEASEDONOTSPAM ninux DOT org>. Thank You !

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