Wireless Village

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1 Wireless Village 2007
2 Overview
3 OLSR_Experiment
4 OpenWrt
5 Workshops at the Wireless Village
6 Participants
7 Hardware & Stuff
8 Mailinglist
9 Upcomming events

Wireless Village 2007

https://events.ccc.de/camp/2007/Wireless:Village

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Overview

The Wireless Village is an international gathering tent for wireless community networking.

We're playing with a lot of toys like wireless routers, antennabuilding, soldering etc.

Join our Mailinglist (see below).

The Wireless Village will be located in the SouthEast corner of field A5. See the the satellite map and the image on the right.

Here are informations about the Olsr mesh. Please edit that page to get an IP.

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OLSR_Experiment

Read all about it on our Olsr page!

We're still searching for a dot-matrix (or other) printer with tractor feed (required) to print out ip-numbers. We have labels, but the printer we took is broken :-( Contact dect: wifi(9434) or jaap(5227)). from outside the WTH area, call +31411629202

Read all about it on our Olsr page!

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OpenWrt

At least two OpenWrt hackers will join the village. We will make some Workshop about debricking your wireless lan router via serial connection or JTAG interface. May be we will hack on porting to AR7 based routers or Netgear (Kernel 2.6). May be we are doing some more bugfixing for OpenWrt 1.0 (whiterussian). Or may be we only drink beer and do some holidays *g*

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Workshops at the Wireless Village

This workshop schedule can change at any time, so check back on the wiki for the latest version!!! You can add workshops if you want to give one. Call WIFI(9434) if you need more info, or just propose it in the wireless village.

Some brainstorming about wireless workshops is als on the WirelessWorkshops page. Get your ideas from there, add a workshop here in the table. Don't forget to check the main program because some of the wireless presentations are in big tents!

Name/Title	Date/Time	Location	Done by	Notes
Building a Bamboo radio tower******	Wed 27 (day before) and Day 1	Village square	Freifunk Hamburg
Wireless hacking competition	Day 1, 17:00	Wireless village, White tent on the corner	Lumiad	See WirelessHackingCompetition
NonTechnicalChallengesInCommunityNetworking	Day 2 14:00-15:30hrs	Tent 3, just outside wireless village!	Rob D	Discussions on regulation, finance, social barriers, local government and end-users. Come and share experiences, anecdotes and beers. Documentation to a wiki - share-a-like.
Serial Modules for WLAN Routers/Embedded Devices + OpenWRT workshop	Day 2, 15:00	Wireless Village, biggest tent	Stephanie, openwrt developers	We make a rs232 Serial Module for our WLAN Router or another Embedded Device with a serial Pinout on the PCB (Linksys WRT54G/GS, Fritz!Box WLAN Fone, D-Link DSL-G664T, Linksys NLSU2, Netgear WRT634U, ... some pinouts: http://hamburg.freifunk.net/twiki/bin/view/Technisches/PinOuts) Bring Your Router/Device! And: the openwrt developers will tell a bit about the OpenWRT project if if you want to buy a serial module kit (20 euros/veldercoins) or a soldered and tested one (30 euros/veldercoins), please call DECT number 1415. How to solder your module: http://hamburg.freifunk.net/twiki/bin/view/Technisches/WrtMx_11
Experiences in running OLSR for community networking	Day 2, 16:00	White tent, wireless village	Jaap, Elektra, Cven, Thomas	This is not a presentation, we want to exchange experiences with other people using OLSR and see how we can improve it's performance. Everybody with OLSR field experience is invited to join. UPDATE: see the OLSR_Experiences_Notes
Multicast + OLSR/Meshing	Day 2, 17:00	Wireless village, C-base	sven-ola	Private multicast routing is a thing not many people understand well. May need a new olsrd plugin and lots of help and tipps on this topic. Hope to find some pros/cons on this on w-t-h. Let's talk :)
Scalability Problems in MANETs	Day 2, 18:00	Wireless village, White tent on the corner	aaron	=== cancelled! === Sorry no $$$ to come over anymore... If you are interested, please drop me an email at aaron -atsign - lo-res.org I will send some written presentation which i will have finished in a few days. Let's communicate over mailinglists instead. sorry again for the last minute cancellation. How to make WLAN based mesh networks scale! It has been widely acknowled that standard WLAN based MANETs (mobile ad-hoc mesh networks) do not scale well (see [1]). WLAN multi-hop mesh networks rarely scale more than 5 to 7 hops. Apart from theoretical observations this factum was even experimentally demonstrated by freifunk and funkfeuer (at least). Scalability however is a central issue for applications of MANETs (military, rescue teams, community freenets). Without scalability our community freenets will always remain an obscure albeit interesting topic for a chosen few. Universities and large corporations (Microsoft) currently conduct a lot of research on this topic but no clear solution seems to be in sight. In this open discussion we will explore together the technical issues of why MANETs don't scale and how this issue can be resolved. A few chosen techniques will be presented - some theoretical, some practical - which should allow our community networks to grow (at least a bit more). Finally I would like to try to discuss the solutions of meshdynamics.com and find improvements. [1] http://dailywireless.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2750&src=rss09
Wireless Security Nightmares === cancelled! ===	Day 3, 17:00	Wireless Village	mac	=== cancelled! ===
The GNU radio project	Day 3, 18:00	Wireless Village, white tent	Eric Blossom	Practical workshop about GNU radio.
Case study: How to bring Internet into a remote mountain village?	Day 4, 15:00	Wireless Village	Gramels	The idea behind this session is to use the gathered knowledge at wth to develop a strategy/ plan to roll out and organize wireless infrastructure in a remote village without broadband internet connectivity. I will lay out the overall szenario and look forward to a lot of input from people who did such a task before. This session shall cover technical as well as organizational aspects.

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Participants

Please add yourself if you plan to join the Wireless Village. Feel free to join our Mailing List as well. for some insight on what can be set up when.. (tents etc) it would be nice/usefull/intresting if you could place your date of arrival aswell :)

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Hardware & Stuff

What will be there?
- WTH organization provides us with one big tent (6x8 mtrs) with floor and 8 tables and 12 benches for it (according to Jaap). This will be the Wireless Workshop Tent :)
- big bamboo antenna tower (see below)

Who brings what? (Feel free to add your stuff)

Item(s)	Arriving date	Brought by	Notes
8 Port 10/100MBit Switch, some long cat5, soldering station, two light cords (blue and green), Gas BBQ (will bring gas as well)	23rd	Thali
see my page	20th	Sebastian	iron/wrt/cube/wl-hdd/psu?
two record players/mixer	23rd	Teefour	etc.
24port 100mbit switch	23rd	Teefour
http://visigoth.de/bambus/ that Bamboo tower	23rd	Dirk
please, check my page Cven	25th	Cven	lots of stuff
Check my page please Red	25th	Red	4 big desks (bore 120cm), 20 chairs,20x Meshnodes, 1km cat5 network cabel and a lot more
Check my page jaap	23rd	jaap	lots of stuff
Check my page carcti	25th	carcti	lots of stuff for the videoinstallation
a camper & gas grill & pcengines wrap boards & wrt54gs & soldering station & stuff &...	24rd/25th	gramels
	evening of 27th	Rod D	some records to accompany the decks and the mixer of Teefour
6M alluminum mast extended with 13 meter fiber mast, remote controlled rotor, 12V 20A Powersupply for icebox, 8port gigabit switch, 24Db antenna, 60cm dish antenna, 1Watt Poweramp, Alarm system for tents, ....	24rd tent - 26th my self :)	Petzl	http://www.wardrivers.be/files/Petzl/images/fibermast/ http://www.wardrivers.be/files/Petzl/testen/
3x3m party-tent, serial connector for wrt54g, table, 3-5 camping chairs, wrt54gs, small cooling-box for drinks, 2-3 lamps, soldering station, myself, fun (hope you all bring a little bit ;-)	evening of 27th	StefanG	see also my page

HamburgHardwareTransport

What is still needed?
- maybe a second gas BBQ (with gas). One will be there (see above). Only Gas-BBQ allowed, see Cooking.
  - Available at aldi (German foot discounter) for 70 euro or at OBI for 59,- (see next post) Who could buy it? People who would give 10 euro: original Poster (name unknown), StefanG, (insert your name here)-- Changed: StefanG 15:30, 10 Jul 2005 (CEST)
  - OBI has another gas bbq for 59,- € . I will bring a rather historic eincarnation of a gas BBQ, donnow yet how well it works.--Gramels 12:14, 10 Jul 2005 (CEST)
- fridge
- microwave? (maybe i can bring one if there is enough space left in car) -- StefanG In general those are forbidden (high current use +2.4GHz device which disturbs WLAN). Exceptions were made on HAL2001 if neccessary for children/mediacal purposes. But not for food, so better leave it at home.. --Thali 17:23, 11 Jul 2005 (CEST)
- soldering gear for hardware moddig (can't have enough ;)
- a frequency analyser
- an oscilloscope
- sound system