Call for sponsored travels to Battlemesh v9 in Porto, Portugal
Hi battlemeshers,
are you interested in joining the battlemesh but don't know how if you can afford the travel since you don't live in Europe? We are currently in the process of securing funds to offer a few travel scholarships, and would like to invite you to send your application!
Requirements
Travel scholarships are open to people not living in Europe. To apply for the travel scholarships, we would like to ask you to send a short video (not longer than two minutes) to describe your situation:
- Where are you from?
- Why would you like to attend Battlemesh?
- What impact in your local environment do you expect from your
participation?
- Would you be able to attend without the travel scholarship?
Shoot a short video and upload it to one of the video sharing websites and send us a link. Note that if it is private, we need a direct link and/or password for it as well.
Contact
E-Mail your video to the local battlemesh team:
Battlemesh V9 local team <v9@battlemesh.org>
Rules
Travel Scholarships include a return airline ticket to come to the Wireless Battle of the Mesh (full week). The selected participants agree that:
- The airline ticket is issued by INESC TEC directly to the selected candidates and sent by e-mail;
- The flight dates have a maximum margin of 5 days before/after the event (exceptions can be considered in case of participation in another related event);
- The selected candidates must sign up and pay for one of the special hotel packages.
Deadline
The deadline for applications is the 1st of March 2016. Decisions will be made before 8th of March 2016.
What is Battlemesh?
The Wireless Battle of the Mesh is an event that aims at bringing together people from across Europe and beyond 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.
It is a tournament with social character. If you are a mesh networking enthusiast, community networking activist, or have an interest in mesh networks you might want to check this out !
The goal of the WirelessBattleMesh (WBM) events is to set-up hands-on testbed for each available mesh routing protocol with a standard test procedure for the different mesh networks. During the different WBM events, similar hardware and software configuration will be used based on the OpenWRT BoardSupportPackage and packages for each protocol implementation. The WBM events are also a great opportunity to develop testing tools for PHY/MAC radio layers (drivers, scripts and PHY analyzers) .
This years Battlemesh will take place from 1st - 7th May 2016 in Porto, Portugal.