Join the Wireless Battle Mesh in Brussels

HackerSpaceBrussels (HSB) announces the second Wireless Battle Mesh, which aims to test 3 popular WiFi routing protocols (OLSR, Batman and Babel), in Brussels on Saturday and Sunday 17-18 October 2009.

Wireless Mesh Battle: OLSR vs. BATMAN vs. Babel

Agenda

Tue 06 Oct @ 21:00: final IRC meeting to prepare the design of the networks (see below)
Sat 10 Oct @19:30: IPv6 presentation (Filip P.) + panel on possibilities & pittfalls of IPv6 for free networks
Tue 13 Oct - Fri 16 Oct: OpenWRT workshops (openwrt installation & configuration, kamikaze build environment, ssh keys infrastructure, firmware generation, UCI configuration tool, asterisk/ SIP phone)
Fri 16 Oct @ 18:00 : Deploy the nodes
Sat 17 Oct @ 14:00: Deploy the nodes, setup tests
Sat 17 Oct @ 19:00: concert "I'm sitting under an antenna" v.a., org. by OKNO
Sun 18 Oct @ 14:00: The battle! :-)

IRC meetings

We setup some IRC meetings to prepare the configuration: IP's, versions, and everything that took too much time at WBM v1. The meetings will be held on the tuesdays of 15 and 22 September and 06 October at 21:00 CET on irc.freenode.net channel #hsbxl. People from Brussels and around are invited to join us at the hackerspace.

Fee

The event is free. We'll kindly ask you for a donation to cover some costs.

Location

Okno
Quai des Charbonnages 30-34
1080 Brussels
http://okno.be
http://tinyurl.com/oknomap

Transport

Metro: Compte de Flandres / Graaf van Vlaanderen
Train: Go to Brussels central station and take metro from there (metro 5 direction Erasmus)
Route planner in Brussels

Registration

Space is limited, so we ask you to register in advance by registering:

send an email with your name and surname to contact@voidpointer.be AND
register on Doodle

Requirements

Bring your laptop/computer
Bring your compatible router(s) with OpenWRT pre-installed
Bring your WiFi antenna(s) and connectors

Accomodation

Zoobab is offering some free space to sleep (contact him at zoobab@gmail.com)
If you have problems finding accomodation, let us know (contact@voidpointer.be) — there always be some couches free at HSB.