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BattleMeshV5

We would like to give to the 'Battle of the Mesh' the flavor 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 V5 very interesting. This event is also an opportunity to meet developers from the most popular open source mesh protocol implementations (Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N. L3 and L2, BMX, OLSR) and watch their ideas compete. If you have implemented an interesting mesh protocol capable of running on OpenWrt Kamikaze you can take part in the tournament too.

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BattleMeshV5

Where

The BattleMeshV5 will be held at Athens, Greece. Since the event will take place in the center of Athens we booked a hotel for the first ~60 participants that confirm their participation. The testing / hacking / talks will take place in the nearby National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). A large room that can accommodate 100 persons has been reserved for the BattleMesh participants. Expect to find an internet connection, plenty of space, video projector and a cafeteria and some curious students there.

The hotel is within walking distance from the university: Map (Point A is the hotel, Point B is the university)

Hotel

Hotel Orion-Dryades, 105 Emanouil Mpenaki Dryadon Street

How to get to the hotel / university from the Athens airport

Subway: Take the Subway (blue line - there is only one line) form the airport to the Monastiraki station, from there take the train to Omonia station (green line, direction to Kifisia) and follow this map.
Bus: Take the X95 Bus to Sintagma square, change to the subway and take the red line direction to Ag. Antonios to Omonia station and follow this map
Taxi: There are plenty of taxis at the airport. The journey to the center of Athens will cost you around 35 EUR during daytime (from 5am to midnight) or 50 EUR during nighttime (from midnight to 5am).

University

National Technical University of Athens

When

26 of March - 1st of April 2012

The space is reserved for the whole week (Monday to Sunday). Some people will start gathering during the previous weekend (check the WBMv5 Warmup). So if time is not a problem, we recommend you to travel some days ahead.

What

In brief: we will deploy a wireless mesh network over the neighborhood, 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:

Announcement: TBD

Call for Paper: TBD

Agenda: TBD

Fee

The event itself is free of charge. If you wish to take part in the hotel reservation group you need to confirm your participation by wiring 84 EUR into the specified account before the 28th of February. This amount guarantees you a sleeping place in the hotel during the entire time of the event (check-in: Monday afternoon, check-out: Sunday morning). As we are living in a finite universe the number of beds / rooms in this hotel are limited. We are allowed to additionally fill up the rooms with sleeping bags if we want to.

We have to operate under this strict timeline because the hotel asked us to make a down-payment for the reservation in early March. Therefore, we need to have the cash and the exact number of participants to secure the beds.

You are not required to book the hotel with us to participate in the event. In case you wish to find your own hotel feel free to do so.

Account details

Recipient: Nikos Roussos
IBAN: GR7701401570157002101152049
BIC: CRBAGRAA
Bank address: Alpha Bank AE, 40 Stadiou Str, 102 52 ATHENS
Subject: $your_full_name, WBMv5

Note: Your bank will charge you when wiring money to a foreign country. To get the cost down you can bundle your transfer with other people. Please contact us if you do, so that we know who is part of your group.

Contact

Organization: AboutUs
IRC: irc.freenode.net #battlemesh (webchat)
Mailing-list: http://ml.ninux.org/mailman/listinfo/battlemesh

What to bring

Access Points
Ethernet Cables
switches and hubs
your laptop
your sleeping bag and a small mattress if it is not problem for you

List of the hardware available for the WBMv5

TBD

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-We would like to give to the 'Battle of the Mesh' the flavor 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 V5 very interesting. This event is also an opportunity to meet developers from the most popular open source mesh protocol implementations ([[http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/|Babel]], [[http://www.open-mesh.org|B.A.T.M.A.N.]] L3 and L2, [[http://www.bmx6.net|BMX]], [[http://olsr.org|OLSR]]) and watch their ideas compete. If you have implemented an interesting mesh protocol capable of running on OpenWrt Kamikaze you can take part in the tournament too.
+We would like to give to the 'Battle of the Mesh' the flavor 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 V5 very interesting. This event is also an opportunity to meet developers from the most popular open source mesh protocol implementations ([[http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/|Babel]], [[http://www.open-mesh.org|B.A.T.M.A.N.]] L3 and L2, [[http://www.bmx6.net|BMX]], [[http://olsr.org|OLSR]]) and watch their ideas compete. If you have implemented an interesting mesh protocol capable of running on !OpenWrt Kamikaze you can take part in the tournament too.
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-The BattleMeshV5 will be held at Athens, Greece. Since the event will take place in the center of Athens we booked an entire(?) hotel for the first 60(?) participants that confirm their participation. The testing / hacking / talks will take place in the nearby university (name ?). A / several room/rooms (size?) has been reserved for the BattleMesh participants. Expect to find an internet connection, plenty of space, video projector and a cafeteria(?) and some curious students (?) there.
+The BattleMeshV5 will be held at Athens, Greece. Since the event will take place in the center of Athens we booked a hotel for the first ~60 participants that confirm their participation. The testing / hacking / talks will take place in the nearby National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). A large room that can accommodate 100 persons has been reserved for the !BattleMesh participants. Expect to find an internet connection, plenty of space, video projector and a cafeteria and some curious students there.
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[[http://www.orion-dryades.com/|Hotel Orion-Dryades]], 105 Emanouil Mpenaki Dryadon Street
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National Technical University of Athens
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-The space is reserved for the whole week so people will start gathering during the previous weekend. So if time is not a problem, we recommend you to travel some days ahead.
+The space is reserved for the whole week (Monday to Sunday). Some people will start gathering during the previous weekend (check the [[http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV5_Warmup|WBMv5 Warmup]]). So if time is not a problem, we recommend you to travel some days ahead.
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-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.
+In brief: we will deploy a  wireless mesh network over the neighborhood, run different routing  protocols on top of it, perform some tests and see which routing  protocol behaves better.
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+The event itself is free of charge. If you wish to take part in the hotel reservation group you need to confirm your participation by wiring 84 EUR into the specified account before the '''28th of February'''. This amount guarantees you a sleeping place in the hotel during the entire time of the event (check-in: Monday afternoon, check-out: Sunday morning). As we are living in a finite universe the number of beds / rooms in this hotel are limited. We are allowed to additionally fill up the rooms with sleeping bags if we want to.

We have to operate under this strict timeline because the hotel asked us to make a down-payment for the reservation in early March. Therefore, we need to have the cash and the exact number of participants to secure the beds.

You are not required to book the hotel with us to participate in the event. In case you wish to find your own hotel feel free to do so. 


=== Account details ===

{{{
Recipient: Nikos Roussos
IBAN: GR7701401570157002101152049
BIC: CRBAGRAA
Bank address: Alpha Bank AE, 40 Stadiou Str, 102 52 ATHENS
Subject: $your_full_name, WBMv5
}}}

Note: Your bank will charge you when wiring money to a foreign country. To get the cost down you can bundle your transfer with other people. Please contact us if you do, so that we know who is part of your group.