[[BattleMeshV4|Wireless Battle Mesh v4]] - Call for papers<<BR>> 
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Wireless Battle Mesh v4 is at hand and it is time to bring together the<<BR>> 
agenda. To avoid last year's dynamic process which gave us a true talk<<BR>> 
marathon on the very last day of WBMv3 all talks / workshops / panel<<BR>> 
discussions shall be announced beforehand.


Tracks<<BR>> 
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In order to broaden the horizon of the event we are going to split the event<<BR>> 
into different tracks:

* The technical track is taking place throughout the week (monday till friday)<<BR>> 
which mainly focuses on rather technical topics like:
 => routing protocol internals<<BR>> 
 => implementations / development of "cool" algorithms<<BR>> 
 => hands-on routing / multicast / roaming / convergence speed / etc<<BR>> 
 => secuity aspects in mesh networks<<BR>> 
 => your idea here<<BR>> 

* The weekend (saturday & sunday) is reserved for the applications track which<<BR>> 
aims to showcase applications that run on top of the mesh. It is not important<<BR>> 
whether protocol X or Y is deployed and how it is implemented, the question<<BR>> 
is: What can we do with the mesh once it is there ?<<BR>> 
 => VoIP in the mesh ?<<BR>> 
 => fast desaster recovery ?<<BR>> 
 => artistic projects ?<<BR>> 
 => your idea here<<BR>> 

The idea of these tracks is to provide a ground for the different developers /<<BR>> 
projects to exchange ideas on technical aspects of algorithms /<<BR>> 
implementations / optimizations as well as organizing an exchange with mesh<<BR>> 
network users who care less about how the mesh itself works as long as their<<BR>> 
application can do its job. On the other hand the weekend serves as an entry<<BR>> 
point for people to learn about what you can actually do with mesh networks.


Submission<<BR>> 
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To allow an efficient handling of your submission, please provide the following<<BR>> 
information and send them to me directly in form of an email:<<BR>> 

* your name<<BR>> 
* the track you are interested in<<BR>> 
* the type of your slot (talk/workshop/panel discussion)<<BR>> 
* your topic headline<<BR>> 
* your topic description which can brief (does not need to exceed a couple of<<BR>> 
lines) but should provide a reasonable summary of your talk<<BR>> 
* the dates of your stay at the event + (optional) preferred day for your slot<<BR>> 
* length of the slot if you wish to do a workshop (all other slots will be<<BR>> 
limited to one hour - notify me in advance if you think that is not enough for<<BR>> 
you)


Deadlines<<BR>> 
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Submissions are accepted until and including the 28th of February. Everyone<<BR>> 
missing this deadline still has the opportunity to apply for a lightening talk<<BR>> 
slot. These slots can be acquired by simply contacting me during the event.<<BR>> 
The list of registered lightening talks will be published in the battlemesh wiki.<<BR>> 
The final program will be made available in the aforementioned wiki during the<<BR>> 
first week of March.<<BR>> 

If you have any question or suggestion, please let me know.<<BR>> 

Regards,<<BR>> 
Marek