<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">Good morning,</span><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px" dir="auto">I want to attend your workshop. I am not sure what's entail as far as who can attend, if there are costs, etc? I would be coming from the USA. I would like to implement some of the ideas from the conference in the developing world. Please let me know who should I reach out too for details about this event. Thanks</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 14, 2017 1:53 PM, "Leonardo Maccari" <<a href="mailto:mail@leonardo.ma">mail@leonardo.ma</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi battlemeshers, <br>
<br>
for those of you that work in (conjunction with) the academia, <br>
but also for those that can afford a scientific conference, there <br>
is this nice workshop we are setting up, the week right after<br>
the battlemesh.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://diynetworking.net/ifipnetworking2017/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://diynetworking.net/<wbr>ifipnetworking2017/</a><br>
<br>
The theme of the workshop is exactly what we do in community networks,<br>
so, along technical papers we also welcome non strictly technical <br>
contributions to understand what is needed to empower people <br>
to make "the Internet": experiences, architectures, incentives, governance, <br>
success or failure cases are very useful, because normally these things<br>
remain under the surface. <br>
<br>
The full CFP is below, and the website of the main conference is here <br>
with all the details: <a href="http://networking.ifip.org/2017/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://networking.<wbr>ifip.org/2017/</a><br>
<br>
I hope to see papers coming from some of the people of the BM community.<br>
leonardo.<br>
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CFP: IFIP Networking 2017 - Interdisciplinary Workshop on DIY and <br>
Community Networking, Stockholm, Sweeden<br>
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Our apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP<br>
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CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
IFIP Networking 2017 Interdisciplinary Workshop on DIY and Community <br>
Networking<br>
Place: Stockholm, Sweden<br>
Date: June 12, 2017<br>
<a href="http://diynetworking.net/ifipnetworking2017/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://diynetworking.net/<wbr>ifipnetworking2017/</a><br>
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Important Dates<br>
Abstract submission: March 20, 2017<br>
Full paper: <wbr> March 30, 2017<br>
Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2017<br>
Camera-ready papers due: April 27, 2017<br>
DIY networking Workshop: June 12, 2017<br>
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Submission guidelines<br>
<a href="http://diynetworking.net/ifipnetworking2017/submission.php" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://diynetworking.net/<wbr>ifipnetworking2017/submission.<wbr>php</a><br>
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Scope:<br>
This workshop is a joint venture of three EU Horizon2020 projects, MAZI, <br>
netCommons, and RIFE, in an effort to join forces around the design and <br>
use of DIY and community networking technologies for the common good, <br>
using a highly interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach. With <br>
DIY and community networking we refer to a diverse set of networking <br>
technologies that range from large-scale community networks to small <br>
scale wireless installations supporting local applications accessible <br>
only to those residing in the coverage area of the network. DIY and <br>
community networking represent two frontier research themes that can <br>
open new and exciting research and application areas. On the one hand, <br>
the locality of DIY networks enables the design of hybrid spaces and <br>
places for social sustainability, collective awareness, and <br>
conviviality. On the other hand, community networking is one of the most <br>
promising approach to overcome digital divide.<br>
<br>
What bridges these two themes is the idea that networks are not only a <br>
way to "access the Internet", but they are a way to connect people, and <br>
people make "the Internet". This workshop will contribute to investigate <br>
the way that local applications can influence the creation and the <br>
governance of community networks, and how community networks can <br>
stimulate the creation of novel local applications.<br>
<br>
DIY and community networks are embedded with the local social <br>
environment where they grow, so their study cannot be separated from the <br>
understanding of their societal stimuli and societal impact. For this <br>
reason the workshop will be highly interdisciplinary aiming to bridge <br>
the communication gap between those that build the technology (computer <br>
scientists, engineers, and hackers) and those that understand better the <br>
complex urban environment where this technology will be deployed (social <br>
and political scientists, urban planners, and designers). More <br>
specifically, people working on applications and uses of ICT are not <br>
always aware of the capabilities of technology for building local <br>
communication networks, on the other hand, scientists in the field of <br>
networking are often indifferent on the actual use and social <br>
implications of the technical solutions they design. We believe that we <br>
are currently in a moment in history when it is particularly important <br>
to bridge this gap between engineering and social sciences, to create an <br>
alternative to the current trend of centralization of resources and <br>
control that is taking place at a global scale on the Internet.<br>
<br>
Some of the themes that we want to be central in the workshop are:<br>
<br>
- Technical contributions that render DIY networking technology easier <br>
to understand and use by for less technically savvy people<br>
- Theoretical contributions that can facilitate the understanding of the <br>
various inherent trade-offs in the design of DIY networks and the <br>
translation of engineering decisions to constraints and requirements for <br>
applications developers and vice versa.<br>
- The integration of community networking with DIY applications, models <br>
of deployment, experiences of success and failure for this combination.<br>
- The exploration of the trade-off between Internet access networks and <br>
local networks for experimenters, hackers and citizens.<br>
- The way DIY and community networks can be placed in the frame of other <br>
horizontal and bottom-up experiences, such as Peer Production movements.<br>
- The links and interrelations between DIY and community networking in <br>
the frame of the models for alternative Internets, such as peer-to-peer <br>
networking, overlay networks, blockchain technologies etc.<br>
- Revisit key engineering questions, such as routing protocols, energy <br>
consumption, automation, resiliency in light of the possible practical <br>
uses of DIY networking technologies.<br>
<br>
For the special interdisciplinary session we welcome the following types <br>
of contributions:<br>
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- Demos of working prototypes of DIY networking applications or systems<br>
- Posters or design mock-ups of imaginary applications<br>
- Short tutorials on important concepts that can facilitate <br>
interdisciplinary collaborations<br>
- Other alternative formats like interviews, testimonies, artistic <br>
treatments<br>
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Organizing Committee:<br>
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Chairs<br>
Panayotis Antoniadis (NetHood, CH)<br>
Leonardo Maccari (University of Trento, IT)<br>
Jörg Ott (Technical University of Munich, DE)<br>
Arjuna Sathiaseelan (University of Cambridge, UK)<br>
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Programme Committee<br>
Ileana Apostol (NetHood Zurich, CH)<br>
Roger Baig (Guifi.net Foundation, ES)<br>
Bart Braem (University of Antwerp, BE)<br>
Dimitris Boucas (University of Westminster, UK)<br>
Roberto Caso (University of Trento, IT)<br>
Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento, IT)<br>
Manos Dimogerontakis (UPC, ES)<br>
Melanie Dulong de Rosnay (CNRS, FR)<br>
Felix Freitag (UPC, ES)<br>
Mark Gaved (The Open University - Milton Keynes, UK)<br>
Federica Giovanella (University of Trento, IT)<br>
Christian Fuchs (University of Westminster, UK)<br>
Ingi Helgason (Edinburgh Napier University, UK)<br>
Karin Anna Hummel (Johannes Kepler University Linz, AU)<br>
George Iosifidis (Trinity College Dublin, IR)<br>
Jussi Kangasharju (University of Helsinki, FI)<br>
Merkourios Karaliopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, GR)<br>
Thanasis Korakis (University of Thessaly, GR)<br>
Matthias Korn (University of Siegen, DE)<br>
Iordanis Koutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, GR)<br>
William Lieu (Auckland University of Technology, NZ)<br>
Anders Lindgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science Kista, SE)<br>
Maria Michalis (University of Westminster, UK)<br>
Leandro Navarro (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ES)<br>
Andrea Passarella (CNR - Pisa, IT)<br>
Claudio Pisa (CNIT - Roma, IT)<br>
Amalia Sabiescu (Loughborough University London, UK)<br>
Douglas Schuler (Evergreen State College - Olympia, US)<br>
Michael Smyth (Edinburgh Napier University, UK)<br>
Felix Treguer (CNRS, FR)<br>
Andreas Unteidig (UdK Berlin, DE)<br>
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