[Battlemesh] Battlemesh v5 december meeting minutes/notes/bullets @Berlin

[Pau]

Thanks for the minutes Clauz.

It is a pity to not be able to stay all the day (including night) in the
hackroom, because as we know the night is the most appreciated hacking time
:-P
Is it possible to have a hackingroom inside the Hotel?

Cheers
--
./p4u



On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 1:47 PM, <clauz at ninux.org> wrote:

> Here it is. I am sorry if I am misspelling Greek names...
>
>  - Battlemesh 5 will be held in the center of Athens
>
>  - we can use a room at the local university that contains ~100 people
> and where we can put some tables for the LAN space. Drawback: probably
> we cannot stay there until late night/morning
>
>  - the aproximate fee (to be confirmed) will be of 70-80
> euros/participant. Something like 70 euros if you book in advance, 80 if
> you book late
>
>  - there is an hotel that can host us at a very good price. It can
> contain up to ~60 people, but we are authorized to use sleeping bags
> (yes, without being kicked out)
>
>  - to deploy the nodes we can use the rooftops [are there sockets on the
> roofs?] and the inside of the university buildings and also ask people
> around the place if we can use the sockets in their houses (Greeks are
> very hospital and open-minded, especially in that area)
>
>  - for eating: in the surroundings there are plenty of places, however
> we can arrange something for the lunchs with the university's facilities
> or with a place that is popular among students (and very cheap). Some
> arrangements where attempted to order pizza for every participant, but
> no pizzeria is willing to make a discount
>
>  - for drinking: there is the university cafeteria, where we can find
> coffee at a good price
>
>  - we might have a social event (i.e. lamb) at the hackerspace, which is
> about 30 minutes away by bus
>
>  - there is a group of 6-8 villages, including Sarantaporo, in
> Tessaloniki, 4-6 hours by bus from Athens, that have invited us to visit
> them for the time of a weekend (they are busy working the rest of the
> week). They have a ~100 nodes, ~400 users mesh network deployed and they
> invited us also to use their infrastructure for the battle. As we don't
> have the time to prepare and perform a battle there in less than a
> weekend, the proposal is to extend the battlemesh timespan from the 24th
> of March to the 1st of April, i.e. including another weekend at the
> beginning, to visit Sarantaporo, exchange ideas and know-how, eat lamb,
> and then begin the actual battlemesh in Athens from the 26th of March.
> The visit to these villages should cost ~20 euros for the whole weekend
> (essentialy the cost of the bus, as we can stay at people's houses)
>
>  - deadline to prepare the announcement: January 7, 2012. After that the
> Greek organizers will be busy with university stuff
>
>  - things to put in the announcement:
>   * fee (we need to know exactly how much will the hotel charge)
>   * dates: 24/03 -> 01/04 including visit to the villages or 26/03 -> 01/04
>   * price for the weekend at Sarantaporo
>   * location of the hotel
>   * account for the money transfers (we can ask ELAC, which is an
> organization that organized some open source related events - such as
> Mozilla stuff - in Athens)
>   * transportation
>
>  - we might have some sponsors: red bull, pc engines
>
>  - it would be good to record the talks during the event, and also to
> have maps of the buildings and of the surroundings
>
>  - we need to understand if we can deploy an open access point for
> Internet access, or if we need some password or whatever to access the
> university network
>
>  - having a closing party somewhere in the last weekend would be great
>
>  - for what concerns the foneras, they are somewhere between Brussels
> and Paris. As it seems that nobody is driving to Athens, they should be
> shipped ~two weeks in advance to Greece
>
>  - we need a protocol-neutral testing team to design and perform the
> tests for the battle
>
> If you want to add and correct please feel free to do so.
>
> Thanks to everybody for the great job, and especially to Nefeli and the
> other Greek folks for hosting us!
>
> ciao,
> Clauz
>
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