[Battlemesh] proposal: WCN roundtable (was: Talks agenda ready for discussion)

[Alejandro Andreu]

On 04/08, Clauz wrote:
> On 04/08/2013 05:15 PM, Roger Baig Viñas wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > A proposal for the talks agenda is available in the website [1]. We
> > received ten proposals and all of them have been allocated. Now we
> > have a week to improve it. Discussions must be held in this mailing
> > list.
> 
> Hi, everybody.
> I would like to make a proposal for a wireless communities roundtable
> during the battlemesh. If you find it could be interesting, perhaps we
> can fit it in the agenda...
> 
> 
> * Wireless Communities Roundtable *
> 
> An open meeting between international wireless community network (WCN)
> members to discuss the following topics:
> 
>  - local misconfigurations might have consequences on the whole network,
> so to which degree is possible to achieve the completely distributed
> management of a WCN?
> 
>  - how are non-technically skilled people involved in communities? Who
> manages their nodes?
> 
>  - are there any more or less formalized "topic groups" or teams, e.g.
> the "developers group", or the "communication team"?
> 
>  - are collective decisions taken on a majority votation, consensus [*]
> or other basis in our communities? Are online tools such as liquid
> feedback used? Is it always possible to draw a line between who is in
> and who is out of the community? Which degree of horizontality is
> achievable in the Real World, where some people are involved more than
> other? Which is the importance and the role of trust? How can the
> decision process scale?
> 
>  - having homogeneous hardware and software systems can help the
> expansion of a network? Which are the drawbacks?
> 
>  - is network monitoring seen as an intrusion? Why or why not?
> 
>  - automatic firmware updates: do they really work?
> 
> [*] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making
> 
> 
> 
> The topic list is open to integrations and remixes, of course. I cannot
> really tell how much time we could need for this discussion, so perhaps
> we could kickstart the debate early in the week and continue it
> "offline" during the rest of the event.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> cheers!
> Clauz
> 
> 
> 



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I'm really interested in this topic. I'm looking forward for this
meeting.

Cheers,
Alejandro.