Wireless Battle of the Mesh v8 - Sponsor Information

About Battlemesh

The Wireless Battle of the Mesh is yearly recurring event that aims at bringing together people involved with wireless mesh networks from across the world to test the performance of different routing protocols for ad-hoc networks, like Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N., BMX, OLSR, 802.11s and Static Routing. The location changes every year, and this years 8th edition will take place in Maribor, Slovenia from Aug 3rd to Aug 9th 2015. We expect approx. 60 to 100 wireless hackers, mesh developers (802.11s, Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N., BMX, OLSR, Babel, ...), OpenWRT developers, WISP and WiFi community people, students, academics, WISP people and enthusiasts from all over the world. It is a tournament with a social character, we will set up a mesh of 50+ devices to run and compare different wireless mesh protocols. There will also be talks and workshops scheduled to synchronize the proceedings in development in the various communities.

Impressions from last years

Battlemesh V7 Video's by Stefan van Hooft: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjdaTaDJvaVzotzdFSpblCVegRpHgGPLG
Video clip from the mesh testbed installation for WBMv6 at Aalborg University Campus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2Aqeqy9pw4
Another WBMv6 clip: http://vimeo.com/87030048
Video clip made at WBMv5 to give you a feeling what this event is like: http://vimeo.com/39412090
Video clip made at WBMv4: http://vimeo.com/21953373

Looking for Sponsorship

The Wireless Battle of the Mesh is an event solely organized by mesh community people. Since we would like to keep the event affordable event for students, we are looking for sponsorships by local companies, institutions, and international companies involved in mesh and wifi networks.

We would like to use money funded by sponsor for:

partly pay accomodation and food for participants - we aim to offer a hotel and accomodation package
- at ~100 EUR per participant for the whole week
offer travel scholarships for non-EU participants if they can't make it otherwise
venue and organization costs (cleaning, transport, rent, ...)

Also hardware sponsoring or food sponsoring would be possible, please contact us to coordinate what is still needed.

We also offer sponsors to get involved and get visible, e.g.:

send staff people to come and visit, give talks, etc
put flyers/posters at the venue
sponsors will be mentioned on our website, the talks and posters

Please note that we will have a few limitations:

we won't accept sponsorships from companies focused on military customers and political parties
we will not allow influence of sponsors into any organization decisions of the event

Financial handling

The open source non-profit organization Institute IRNAS Race will be the legal entity behind the organization of this years Wireless Battlemesh. The preferred way is to establish a Memorandum of Understanding on basis of which the donation is made, but depending on your companies/insititutions requirements they are flexible to sort out the paperwork.

Contact information

Please let us know if you consider sponsoring, or if you need any further information. To get in contact with the orginazation team directly, please write an e-mail to:

battlemeshv8@wlan-si.net

For general information and participating, please check our mailing list:

http://ml.ninux.org/mailman/listinfo/battlemesh

Further resources:

http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV8 - Wireless Battle of the Mesh v8 page