[Battlemesh] WBMv4 meeting minutes

[Marek Lindner]

Hi folks,

yesterday night quite a bunch of people (Nico, Sven, Simon, Ptr, Sandb, Roger, 
Linus, Vincent, Axel and me) participated in the WBMv4 meeting to tackle the 
remaining tasks. The following topics have been discussed:

Location & Housing:
* Roger rented several houses in a village [Sant Bartomeu del Grau] "owned" by 
guifi.net [80% of the people there are connected to the internet via guifi.net]
* down payment (1/3 of the sum) has been paid by him
* we decided to calculate with 30 attendees, so that everyone has to pay 50 
EUR to cover the costs of the place (there is enough room for even more 
people)
* in case we don't reach this number of participants we have to adjust the 
individual fee
* several people paid their fee in advance (during the meeting) to support the 
event (the guys from Belgium even offered an emergency budget of 500 EUR)
* Roger will check if guifi.net can open & handle a bank account to allow 
further payments
* the village is very friendly towards guifi.net - Roger will ask the people to 
support us by providing power plugs around the village, so that we can easily 
deploy nodes everywhere

Arrival & Preregistration:
* to get an overview about who is coming please register now:  
http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV4/Participants
* to coordinate the pickups from airports / ferry ports / etc it is necessary 
to leave your arrival information (time / place / number of people) in the 
wiki as well
* Roger will organize some locals to get us from Barcelona to the location

Tests, Hardware & Program:
* flashing all nodes at the event consumes too much time, attempts to get every 
team ready *before* the events starts have failed in the past - this time, 
nico will choose the base system to pre-flash the nodes
* each team has to build its own packages against this version and 
configuration which can be easily deployed using the configuration script
* Nico / Vincent / etc will organize some new hardware to play with
* a list of general debugging / monitoring packages can be created in the wiki 
and will be prepared by Nico
* Ptr brings hardware for remote logging / kismet/ ...
* Marek will coordinate the workshops / talks / panel discussions - call for 
paper will follow soon

Remaining tasks:
* mailing list "spamming" -> Benjamin, would you be willing to take the matter 
in your hands ?
* Roger informs the local media / Spanish lists
* logo / flyer -> Saverio & friends, would you volunteer for this task ?
* mesh measurements / performance comparisons -> Elektra / Henning ?

Cheers,
Marek