[Berlin-wireless] talk about Freifunk at the MANIAC Challenge Workshop

Do Jul 25 16:09:25 CEST 2013

Hi Emmanuel,

I am sorry! I cannot shift my other obligations for the weekend. For me
it's a bit too short term. 

In any way I wanted to say that by its nature every _free_ wifi network
is a load removal for commercial cell phone infrastructure, as people
will prefereable use the free network, e.g. when roaming or also speed
and capacity are of interest. It does of course not pay into the
providers business modell, as the usage is free for everyone, but it can
also connect people to commercial services of the providers, if they are
keen to use those. ;-)

At the moment freifunk.net very successful again and groing by large
numbers all over the country. I am well willing to add some more
detailed input into your organisation. Maybe there will be another
occasion soon, or maybe someone else from freifunk.net can make it on
sunday, just to give you a short intro.

Here is a link to a little PR movie with subtitles in various languages:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z12OjnPADA

Warmly,

JuergeN

Am Dienstag, den 23.07.2013, 10:03 +0200 schrieb Emmanuel Baccelli:
> Hi again, 
> by the way, below is the current draft agenda for the MANIAC Challenge.
> A talk about Freifunk and community wireless mesh networks would be great
> on Sunday in the time dedicated for invited talks (somewhere around 
> 12:00 - 12:45).
> Let me know if that could happen!
> Best,
> Emmanuel
> ------------------------------------------------
> Saturday July 27th
> ------------------------------------------------
> 09:00 - 10:00  Welcome and Setup
> 10:00 - 10:30  Round 1
> 10:30 - 11:30  Programming
> 11:30 - 12:00  Break
> 12:00 - 12:30  Round 2
> 12:30 - 13:30  Lunch
> 13:30 - 14:30  Programming
> 14:30 - 15:00  Round 3
> 15:00 - 15:30  Break
> 15:30 - 16:30  Programming
> 16:30 - 17:00  Round 4
> 17:00 - 18:00  Programming
> 18:00 - 18:30  Round 5
> 18:30 - 18:45  Conclusion
> 19:00 -        BBQ
> ------------------------------------------------
>   Sunday July 28th
> ------------------------------------------------
> 09:00 - 09:30  Intro MANIAC and Mobile Offloading
> 09:30 - 11:00  Presentations of the 6 teams (per team max. 15 minutes)
> 11:00 - 11:30  Break
> 11:30 - 12:00  Experience report MANIAC implementation (FU)
> 12:00 - 12:45  Two external talks
> 12:45 - 13:00  Conclusion
> 13:00 - 15:00  ISOC Student Orientation (Presentations in German)
> 16:00 - 17:00  Newcomers' Meet and Greet
> 17:00 - 19:00  IETF Welcome Reception
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Emmanuel Baccelli
> < mailto:Emmanuel.Baccelli at inria.fr Emmanuel.Baccelli at inria.fr
> >
> wrote:
> Hi Sven-Ola,
> thanks for your answer. We are also advocating for more bandwidth for this kind of networks ;)
> Actually the aim of this workshop is to show that ad hoc networking and community wireless mesh networking can fruitfully complement operator networks (which also use Wifi).
> The idea is that user can virtually *sell* their ad hoc networking resource to operators if they want to.
> This does not disable the ability for users to offer their ad hoc networking resource for free, when an operator is not involved for instance.
> For that matter, we think that your experience building Freifunk would be very interesting to workshop attendees.
> It would be great if someone of you could attend (there are no registration fees) and give a brief talk about your experience operating/building Freifunk.
> Would you be interested in giving such a talk?
> Best,
> Emmanuel
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Sven-Ola Tuecke
> < mailto:sven-ola at gmx.de sven-ola at gmx.de
> >
> wrote:
> Hi Workshop,
> the main incentive here is free-and-unlicensed spectrum. Obviously a
> strategic resource everyone depends on. Pleas do not hesitate and demand
> *more* spectrum for this kind of applications and business models.
> Kindly // Sven-Ola
> Am Montag, den 22.07.2013, 17:01 +0200 schrieb Emmanuel Baccelli:
> > Hi Freifunk,
> >
> > You may (or may not) have already heard about the upcoming MANIAC
> > Challenge ( http://www.maniacchallenge.org http://www.maniacchallenge.org
> ) which takes place in
> > conjunction with the IETF in Berlin next weekend. The focus of the
> > MANIAC Challenge this year is on developing and comparatively
> > evaluating strategies to offload infrastructure access points via
> > customer ad hoc forwarding using handhelds (e.g., smartphones,
> > tablets). The incentive for customers is discounted monthly fees, and
> > the incentive for operators is decreased infrastructure costs. The
> > idea is to demonstrate scenarios/strategies that do not degrade user
> > experience while offering significant mobile offloading on the
> > infrastructure.
> >
> >
> > The event consists in two parts. The first part is the actual
> > coding/experiment part, happening on the Saturday at the FU Berlin,
> > where you are most welcome, of course.
> >
> >
> > The second part is a half-day workshop planned at the IETF hotel in
> > Berlin (the Intercontinental) on Sunday morning, from 9AM until lunch
> > time. The workshop will focus on analyzing the different forwarding
> > strategies for mobile data offloading, and will feature invited talks.
> >
> >
> > We were wondering whether one of you from Freifunk would consider
> > giving a short talk at this occasion on Sunday morning (July 28th),
> > about your experience developing wireless mesh community networks,
> > including the aspect of Internet access via such networks. That would
> > be very interesting for workshop attendees in our opinion. A 15
> > minutes talk would be perfect in this context. The exact timeslot for
> > the talk is to be determined (we're currently compiling the detailed
> > agenda as you can see ;)
> >
> >
> > It would be great to have such a talk. Please do let me know as soon
> > as possible if one of you is interested in giving such a talk.
> >
> >
> > Best,
> >
> >
> > Emmanuel
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