Schedule
Format and topic of talks {menukeys} We welcome proposals of anything you think may be of interest to mesh routing and community networking enthusiasts. Format is very flexible: presentation, talk, discussion, debate, practical workshop, or film screening. The default slot length is one hour (40 minutes talk + 10 minutes questions + 10 minutes break until next one). Lightning talks are short talks which can be put in the program during the event, it's the perfect opportunity to present fresh projects/ideas. They are limited to 10 minutes followed by 5 minutes of questions.
- Mon-Fri - Hacksessions, Measurement Campaign
- Wed-Sat - Talks, Workshops and ongoing barbeque
- Sun - Chillout
To enter a proposal, please add it directly to the schedule below. This list is editable without creating an account, by just clicking the “Edit this tab link” on the right. In case self-editing fails for some reason, please put your proposal into a short mail to organizers at battlemesh.org with the details.
Rooms
- Mainhall can be used for hacksessions and talks, it has audio/video equipment, Thu-Sun talks will be live streamed and archived under https://media.freifunk.net
- Ceminar Room is good for workshops up to 15 people and has a beamer, no audio/video.
- (ETI Room is available only Saturday and Sunday and has audience seating, audio equipement and beamer, no video)
- At the Riverside outside you will find powersockets and lights, it is nice for discussions and hacksessions, the grill is located next to it :)
Live Stream
Stream is live at c-base
Monday - May 7th
| Time/Duration | Name/Title | Location | Done by | Presentation/notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Doors open | |||
| 12:00-13:00 | Welcome and Ice Breaker | Mainhall | Monic | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | Mainhall | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Start of the “Battle of the Mesh Protocols” (Measurement Campaign) | Mainhall | Paul | |
| 19:00 | Welcome Dinner | Mainhall | ||
| 23:42 | c-base shutdown | Last trains soon after |
Tuesday - May 8th
| Time/Duration | Name/Title | Location | Done by | Presentation/notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Doors open | |||
| 12:00-13:00 | Grand Opening | Main Hall | Monic, Paul, Filipe | Be there or be square! |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | Mainhall | ||
| 14:00-14:15 | NexMesh - the first mesh network mined cryptocurrency | Main Hall | Tom Calvert | |
| 14:00-18:00 | Freifunk in der Schule und OER | Ceminar room | Bernd (JSFB), Monic | Detailinfos und Ablauf |
| 18:15-18:45 | cryptdomainmgr automates certs, TLSA, DKIM and many more | Stefan (Chaostreff Chemnitz) | Repo: https://github.com/TheTesla/cryptdomainmgr | |
| 19:00 | Turkish Buffet | Mainhall | ||
| 23:42 | c-base shutdown | Last trains soon after |
Wednesday - May 9th
| Time/Duration | Name/Title | Location | Done by | Presentation/notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Doors open | |||
| 10:45 - 11:30 | Technik Museum Guided Tour | Foyer/Eingang Ladestraße. 10 minutes walk from Station “U2 Gleisdreieck” or “U1/U3/U7 Möckernbrücke” | Curator and Elektra | Learn about Freifunk History and have a tour through the exhibition “The Net”. Entrance Fee 5 EUR |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | Mainhall | ||
| 14:30-15:00 | Savemom - Using Wireless Mesh to provide healthcare to pregnant women in villages | Main Hall | Senthil kumar | Presentation slides available here. |
| 15:15 - 16:30 | Network self-organization | Main Hall | Bruno, Thiago | How do community networks sprout? Coolab shares its experience in fostering CNs in Brazil. Come share your experiences and insights too. Bonus: installing a captive portal with voucher system in Libremesh |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Poprouting applied to WCN | Main Hall | Gabriele Gemmi | Discover what's Poprouting and learn how to implement it in your WCN using PRINCE |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | TubeChat | Main Hall | Nina Tumanishvili | A short-range social messaging/gaming app, connecting users in areas with low connectivity looking for collaborators |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | OpenWrt: there and back again | Main Hall | nbd | OpenWrt/LEDE status update |
| 18:00 - 18:15 | goTenna Call for Reverse Engineering | Main Hall | tbd | We have 4 goTenna devices here. Let's test them to see if they actually mesh and think about making a plan to reverse engineer their proprietary protocol. |
| 18:30 | Guided tour, Dinner and Beering | Holzmarkt cooperative | http://www.holzmarkt.com | Learn more and please RSVP here for a trip to holzmarkt. Start @c-base mainhall for a walk |
| 23:42 | c-base shutdown | Last trains soon after |
Thursday - May 10th
| Time/Duration | Name/Title | Location | Done by | Presentation/notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Doors open | |||
| 12:00 | Start of the ongoing BBQ | Riverside | ||
| 13:00 - 14:00 | FreeStateMesh.net | Mainhall | binder | Wireless community in an individualist migration to New Hampshire |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Brainstorming fieldtracks | Riverside | yanosz | Pad: https://pad.freifunk.net/p/2018-05-10-fieldtracks - Fieldtracks aims at building an open-source tracking systems for field exercises. Having kicked off this project about a month ago, let's discuss technologies (i.e. BLE meshe) and crazy ideas for building meshes in caves, mines, tunnels, etc. - see https://fieldtracks.org for a quick glance |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Decentraliazed culture repository | Main Hall | Gioacchino Mazzurco | Community networks are not just people and antennas, communities produce and share lot of cultural assets, nowadays most of those end up in proprietary silos like youtube that are community and network unfriendly. Decentralized culture repository is an attempt to create an home to community cultural assets, in an decentralized and organized way. (DISCLAIMER: the talk is not about blockchain buzz miracle…) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Aixperiment Brand | Main Hall | F | In a pilot project we setting up a Freifunk installation in a public square of Brand subburb of Aachen with 20.000 inhabitants. This is done in a collaboration with public institutions, the local church and local businesses. |
| 16:00-17:00 | Two Years of the netCommons.eu Project | Main Hall | Leonardo Maccari | What we did so far for Community Networks, what we plan to do in the next months, ideas on what may comes after… |
| 17:00-17:05 | Encounters in the hybrid city (pitch) | Main Hall | Panos | A short pitch for the Sunday afternoon event in collaboration with urban activist groups from the Prinzessinnengarten. More info here: https://netcommons.eu/?q=content/encounters-hybrid-city |
| 17:05-18:00 | Community Network Special Interest Group - ISOC | Main Hall | Panos, Thiago, Bruno, Roger, Monic, Gio | Vision, mission, working groups and collaborative process for the development of community networks around the globe. See http://cnsig.info |
| 18:00-18:45 | Lightning Talks | Main Hall | - | Present something in 5-10 minutes |
| +18:00-18:05 | Device Observatory | Main Hall | Moritz Warning | Show what your Smartphone does online - increase awareness for privacy https://github.com/mwarning/device-observatory |
| +18:05-18:10 | Old man's rant | Main Hall | “Greek” Guy | a rant - brace yourselves |
| +18:10-18:15 | Briar | Main Hall | txt.file | Secure messaging, anywhere |
| +18:20-18:25 | Mesh Routing Simulator | Main Hall | Moritz Warning | A simplistic mesh routing simulator to sketch algorithms and edit mesh data https://github.com/mwarning/MeshNetSimulator |
| +18:25-18:30 | Mesh Testbed Generator | Main Hall | yanosz | Config-Mgmt. for OpenWRT (ImageBuilder) for setting up a homogeneous network (i.e. for testbeds) https://github.com/yanosz/mesh_testbed_generator |
| +18:30-18:35 | Idea: Public Virtual IX | Main Hall | zgiles | Should we make a public ASN VPN IX for fun |
| +18:35-18:40 | COSLi | Main Hall | yanosz | A civilian OpenSource license restricting military usage - License: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FieldTracks/JellingStone/master/LICENSE |
| 18:45-19:30 | A more resilient Mesh | Main Hall | Daniel Golle | Crypto update (11s+SAE+bmx7 = “dunkelfunk”) and outlook on possible future improvements (eg. OWE to secure clients connections) |
| 19:45-20:15 | LibreRouter Status Update | Main Hall | Gioacchino Mazzurco | After years of hard work on LibreRouter[0], the community network dreams router, we have working prototypes. What we got and where we are heading. |
| 20:30-21:30 | Brainstorming on “Open Infrastructure Orbit” @35c3 | Riverside | Monic, Andi and all interested | |
| 23:42 | c-base shutdown | Last trains soon after |
Friday - May 11th
| Time/Duration | Name/Title | Location | Done by | Presentation/notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Doors open | |||
| 12:00 | Start of the ongoing BBQ | Riverside | ||
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Connectivity and Community in the Amazon region | Main Hall | Debora Leal, Moacir Neto and Lorena Freitas | This is a short talk about a long term relationship between the contemporary and traditional knowledges in the Brazilian Amazon region. The work has been done since 2015 together with an organic farmers association and volunteers from around the globe. The activities range from building a forest garden to implementing a model of internet access, and it also involves an investigation about governance of internet and the use of it. |
| 13:30-14:00 | Community-IX Update | Main Hall | Leon | Short introduction and updates from the Community-IX |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Short Status for L3roamd and Babel Integration in Gluon | Main Hall | Christof | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Wifi4EU - a fridendly introduction | Main Hall | gbAc | A short introduction to “Wifi4EU” the European Unions public wifi intiative as part of the digital single market strategy. How it started (“eduroam for everybody”); how it is supposed to work; and why there are problems. See public hompage (https://www.wifi4eu.eu/), mailinglist summary (german) (http://lists.freifunk.net/pipermail/wlantalk-freifunk.net/2018-April/001215.html) and Freifunk Radio (german) (https://radio.freifunk.net/2018/04/14/ffradio060-freifunk-aachen-und-wifi4eu/ |
| 15:00-16:00 | Is Wifi4EU broken by technical specifications? - roundtable | Main Hall | gbAc | Since Monday - the 30th of April - the technical sepcifications (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/faq/wifi4eu-questions-and-answers) for Wifi4EU are public.Unfortunately captive portals and the Hotspot 2.0 standard are part of the specifications. Since the arguments against captive portals are clear why_do_the_technical_requirements_presuppose_the_necessity_of_an_authentication_system_t.pdf we would like to figure out if it is possible to oblige the technical constraints and create a desirable infrastructure. |
| 15:00-17:00 | Solder Workshop Freifunk-OpenMPP Tracker | Ceminar Room | Elektra | Please find details here and register for solderworkshop |
| 16:00-17:00 | Lockdown in the air: legislative agenda in Europe | Mainhall | Sebastian Raible (kaerF) | Data retention legislation in Europe could soon be back on the European agenda. Implications this and other European legislative initiatives may have for the wireless community and society at large, at the example of the Radio “Lockdown” Directive (Radio Equipment Directive). |
| 17:00-17:45 | The EU Radio Equipment Directive and Community Networks (presentation) | Mainhall | François Ambrosini (IBIT Ambrosini UG) / Jörg Pohle (HIIG) | The presentation will discuss the possible activation of articles 3(3)(i), i.e. the radio software “lockdown” provision, and 4 (and others) of the RED, and their consequences. An up-to-date status of the discussions within the expert group will be provided, with a view of identifying means for Community Networks to engage. To this end the mandate and obligations of the expert group, as well as the New Legislative Framework and the role of ESOs, will be explained. |
| 17:45-19:00 | The EU Radio Equipment Directive (roundtable) | Ceminar room | FrançoisAmbrosini (IBIT Ambrosini UG) / Jörg Pohle (HIIG) | discussion after the presentation |
| 18:00-19:00 | State of the NYC Mesh | Main Hall | Brian and Zach | https://nycmesh.net |
| 19:00-20:00 | FREE SLOT - Lightning Talks | Main Hall | ||
| 19:00 - 19:10 | OpenWISP 2 | Main Hall | Federico Capoano | OpenWISP 2: a growing open source network management system for OpenWRT |
| 19:30-22:30 | Flashing Freifunk firmware and configuration | Ceminar Room | Holger&Thorsten | Beginners workshop and advanced settings (use wifi as uplink). Please see requirements and details. |
| 20:00-21:00 | The Evernet - High Performance Mesh for Inet, Energy Transition and Local Services | Main hall | Thomas Hühn | Multi Gateway Load Balancing with Wireguard, Decentralised Smart Grid Monitoring, Village Radio … Mesh Router based public Voice Information |
| 21:00-22:00 | philosophical excursus | Main hall | Elektra | |
| 22:30-05:00 | André's birthday party | secret location | andrenarchy | Close to Warschauer Str, details on request :) |
Saturday - May 12th
| Time/Duration | Name/Title | Location | Done by | Presentation/notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Doors open | ||||
| 12:00 | Start of the ongoing BBQ | Riverside | |||
| 13:30-14:00 | Roaming in Babel mesh networks | Main Hall | CodeFetch | Slides Babel is an emerging mesh technology, but for using it on community networks practically some steps need to be taken… Please watch the talk “Short Status for L3roamd and Babel Integration in Gluon” first as this talk is very technical. | |
| 14:00-15:00 | The Turnantenna project | Main Hall | Marco Musumeci | The Turnantenna is the new Ninux Community's project that makes you able to re-point an antenna trough remote control. No matter if it's mounted in a position that is not easily accessible: it will turn! | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Distributed DHCP Daemon | Seminar Room | sargon | DDHCPD implements a distributed DHCP concept for our distributed client realms. We will discuss the basic design of the algorithm, as well as roaming of clients in the scope of DHCP handling and some details about the current state of the implementation | |
| 15:00-16:00 | GSoC Project 2018 | Main Hall | Andi + Students | OpenWLANMap App by Lilli, Local Phone App by Daniel, Visual Router Config for OpenWrt by Asco | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Free Wireless Network Activism and the Industrial Media Infrastructures of Forced Migration | Main Hall | Tim Schütz | Handling asylum cases is considered a matter of the state – yet there is a booming “industry” around the asylum process in European countries. In this talk, I will present a co-authored article that investigates how Freifunk activists successfully intervened into the exploitative tendencies of this industry, but also how its modes of participation become increasingly entangled with it. | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Free Wireless Networks For Refugees: A Survey Protoype | Main Hall | Tim Schütz | Three years after the “long summer of migration”, there has been a wealth of studies on “Welcome Culture” and its particular type of humanitarinian intervention. In this talk, we will present the first draft of a survey that attempts to assess what “doing” free wireless networks for and with refugees looks like in 2018. Your participation and feedback on the survey are encouraged. | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Datenschutz für Freifunk-Vereine | Main Hall | Bea | ||
| 17:00-18:00 | Workshop “Freifunk hilft!” | Riverside | pex | Workout for pimping up our website | |
| 17:30-18:00 | Über die Freifunk Feststellungsklagen | Main Hall | Bea | ||
| 18:00-19:00 | Against the tides | Main Hall | Moritz Warning | Discussion about the past and, more importantly, the challenges and future of Freifunk | |
| 19:00-20:00 | Battlemesh Community Meeting | Mainhall | |||
| 20:00-21:30 | Presenting Measurement Campaign Results & Conclusion | Mainhall | |||
| 22:00-22:30 | musical interlude | Main hall | Bluse 'n Friends | Mesh is in the Air | |
| 21:00 | vpn03 R.I.Pchen Party | Riverside | spareribs BBQ |
Sunday - May 13th
| Time/Duration | Name/Title | Location | Done by | Presentation/notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Doors open | |||
| 12:00-15:00 | Chillout & BBQ | Riverside | ||
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Status update: node-config - A simple approach for roaming in l3-meshes | Mainhall | yanosz | Using batman-adv and babel at the same time, roaming and decentralized exits can be done in a simple, starter friendly setup. Slides: 2018-wcw-node-config.pdf - Sources: https://github.com/yanosz/node-config, https://github.com/yanosz/firmware-wizard-frontend |
| 15:00 | Current challenges in the city & possible synergies with CNs | Mainhall | Panos | Roundtable meeting with local, Berlin, urban activists |
| 16:00 | c-base shutdown | all hands needed | ||
| 16:00 | Closing apero and further discussion with urban activists @Prinzessinnengarten | http://prinzessinnengarten.net/ | Panos | urban garden, 15 min walk of c-base |
