Wireless Battle of the Mesh v9 - 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 9th edition will take place in Porto, Portugal from May 1st to 7th 2016. 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:
- offer travel scholarships for non-EU participants if they can't make it otherwise
- venue and organization costs (cleaning, transport, rent, ...)
We would like to use hardware sponsorship sponsor for:
- setting up a more extensive test network at the event
- enabling the companies to introduce their devices to the wireless communities and developers
- involve engineers and companies with OpenWRT and other open-source efforts in wireless networking
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 technical institute INESCTEC 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/institution 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 organization team directly, please write an e-mail to:
For general information and participating, please check our mailing list:
Further resources:
http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV9 - Wireless Battle of the Mesh v9 page