[Battlemesh] Announcement: Wireless Battlemesh v15 is coming up in May 8-14

Ilario Gelmetti iochesonome at gmail.com
Tue Mar 7 19:37:17 CET 2023 

Hi all,

The Wireless Battle of the Mesh is going live for its 15th edition. This 
time for a full *week* again!

The dates and venue have been set by the WBM community:

      8-14th of May 2023
      Calafou, Vallbona d'Anoia, Barcelona
      https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/41.51115/1.70263
      https://calafou.org/web/index.php/sobre-calafou#eng

Please find the information we gathered so-far on the wiki page:
      https://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV15

Different accommodation options are available at Calafou:
* Camping - the great outdoors is calling. Please bring your own camping 
gear (tent, caravan, etc).
* Bunk Bed - pick one of the available bunk beds covered by a proper roof.

Accommodation Packages are available, valid for BOTH camping and bunk 
beds, but they have limited availability and require registration 
beforehand:

* Early bird package: 60 EUR for 6 nights
* Late booking package: 100 EUR for 6 nights

Book until **March 31st** to enjoy early bird booking discount! The 
packages are attributed on a first-come first-serve basis, so register 
as soon as possible!
See https://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV15/AccomodationPackage

Please help us spread the word by forwarding the announcement below.

Thanks!
     The WBMv15 orga team.


==========================================================
The Wireless Battle Mesh v15
8th - 14th of May 2023, Calafou / Barcelona (Europe)
==========================================================

The next 'Wireless Battle of the Mesh' (Battlemesh) will take place from 
Mon 8th - Sun 14th of May 2023 in Calafou (https://calafou.org/) near 
Barcelona (Europe).

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.

There will be 6 days full of expert presentations, late night hacking 
sessions, measurement campaigns, protocol discussions, and a lot of 
other meshy things.

So if you are a mesh networking enthusiast, community networking 
activist, or have an interest in mesh networks in general, you have to 
check this out!

Continuously updated information about the event available at 
https://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV15


Location
========

The Battlemesh v15 will be hosted by the fabulous Calafou / colonia 
ecoindustrial postcapitalista members in Barcelona, Europe.

The Calafou compound is very spacious and offers plenty of room for 
hacking, workshops, socializing, building test beds and more!

You can check some pictures of the spaces at the Battlemesh wiki page. 
Instructions on how to arrive by train and from BCN airport will be 
provided soon on the same page.

https://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV15#Where


Accommodation Offering
======================

Different accommodation options are available at Calafou:
* Camping - the great outdoors is calling. Please bring your own camp 
gear (tent, caravan, etc) right at the venue.
* Bunk Bed - pick one of the available bunk beds covered by a proper roof.

Accommodation Packages, valid both for camping or bunk beds, have 
limited availability and require registration beforehand.
* Early bird package: 60 EUR (6 nights)
* Late booking package: 100 EUR (6 nights)

Book until *March 31st* to enjoy early bird booking discount! The 
packages are attributed on a first-come first-serve basis, so register 
as soon as possible!

Please check the Battlemesh wiki page for more details.

https://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV15/AccomodationPackage


Registration
============

The event is *free of charge* and open for all. However, it makes the 
organization much easier if you tell us in advance that you plan to come.

To register, please send an email to v15 at battlemesh.org with the 
following content:

########
Subject: Registration

Name and/or Nick:
Date of arrival/departure:
Accommodation package: [Yes/No]
T-Shirt Size: [S/M/L/none, straight or fitted cut]
Other details you want to share: (e.g. community, country, URLs, 
twitter/mastodon handle, dietary restrictions, ...)
Do you agree to appear on the public list of participants? [Yes/No]
########

If your answer to the last question is YES, you can go ahead and add 
yourself to the public participants list right away (otherwise we will 
do it for you):
      http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV15/Participants


Schedule and Call for participation
===================================

The event will feature organized talks, workshops and discussion panels 
on community networks and wireless mesh networks. There will also be 
more informal activities: cooperative hacking, self-organized projects, 
and (we hope) delightful conversations! In addition, there may be a 
self-organized wireless mesh network, running different routing 
protocols to compare them. Please coordinate directly on the Battlemesh 
mailing list (see link below) to make that happen.

The schedule is being updated at:
https://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV15#Talk_Schedule_and_Workshops

We invite participants to propose workshops, talks or panel discussions 
relating to network infrastructure in general, how it can be built and 
operated as a common, and how to sustain a community around networking.
We welcome contributions that broadly address these questions from any 
of several perspectives: technical, organisational, economical, 
regulatory, juridical, political.  Example topics:

* Wireless Community Networks
* Community Networks that deploy Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) networks
* TV white space as a precious network resource (radio spectrum)
* Free hardware and free software for Community Networks
* How to organize a durable community structure?
* How to involve non-technical people? To "digital stewardship" and beyond?
* How to disseminate the spirit of community networks, knowledge etc?
* Connecting rural areas: challenges and solutions
* Public fiber networks: architecture, funding, private actors involved, 
oversight
* Internet of Things (IoT) networks and their impact on society
* How to take advantage of a community network in ways otherwise not 
possible? What are the applications?
* Local Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) as a common infrastructure
* DNS as a common infrastructure

Please check the wiki page on how to submit your proposal.
https://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV15#Call_for_participation


Travel Support Grants
=====================
The Team at https://cdt.org invites all participants who are in need of 
financial support for their long haul flight to check out this travel fund:

https://gitlab.com/pitg/fund

(When sending an application, please add v15 at battlemesh.org in CC).


Spread the Word
===============

Please help us spreading the word by forwarding this announcement to all 
lists and people that might be interested. Blogging about it is also 
very appreciated, and if you do so, please add a ping-back to the wiki 
page: http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV15


Contact
=======

* Web: http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV15
* Public Mailing List: http://ml.ninux.org/mailman/listinfo/battlemesh
* Orga crew: v15 at battlemesh.org
* https://matrix.to/#/#battlemesh:matrix.org
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/battlemesh/
* Mastodon: https://toot.aquilenet.fr/@battlemesh

The WBMv15 orga team.

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