= Wireless Battle Mesh =

The Wireless Battle Mesh is a non-commercial, volunteer-organized annual convention.

The convention features a variety of talks and workshops on technical and political issues related to mesh networking, wireless community networks and Openwrt firmware development.

The purpose of the event is to further topics such as right to connectivity, community-owned infrastructure and related free open source projects.

== Attending the Wireless Battle Mesh ==

Attending the convention always is free of charge. To make joining the event as affordable as possible, an accommodation package is offered which provides low cost accommodation. 

Should you not have the means to cover for your travel expenses, please reach out to the orga crew. If sponsoring budget allows, we will support you.

== Upcoming Event ==
 * '''2023''' BattleMesh v15 TBD


== oooold ==

Since the very beginning From its beginning, the event itself was free of charge, we would like 
to stick into this; and be able to find sponsors that lower the barriers 
to bring more contributions from more participants. If sponsors are not 
possible with this edition, we would try to charge participants in a way 
that can afford it (this is something to be developed in the upcoming 
months so it is easy to manage, easy to understand and everybody is happy)

The Wireless Battle of the Mesh is an event that aims at bringing together people from across the world to test the performance of different routing protocols for ad-hoc networks, like [[https://www.irif.fr/~jch//software/babel/|Babel]], [[https://www.open-mesh.org|B.A.T.M.A.N.]], [[https://www.bmx6.net|BMX6]], [[http://olsr.org|OLSR]], [[https://open80211s.org/|802.11s]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_routing|Static Routing]].

It is 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 want to check this out!

The goal of the !WirelessBattleMesh 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).

If you want to know who is behind the WBM, you should visit AboutUs.