Das Community Blog
News von Opennet aus Rostock: Gestern gab es die erste
"Openlab" Veranstaltung als Versuch verschiedene Hacker und Technikinteressierte an einen Tisch zu bekommen.
Wie Mathias Mahnke von der Opennet Initiative e.V. Rostock berichtet: "Ein Erfolg, aus dem "Nichts" sind wir 23 Leute geworden und obwohl wir eigentlich eine Teilnahmebegrenzung auf 20 Personen hatten. Einige sind zum Teil aus 90 km Entfernung angereist."
Mehr unter:
http://wiki.opennet-
Juergen Neumann and Xavier Carcelle present the Open Hardware Initiative at the Open Tech Summit in Taiwan 2008. Focus is the history of the Open Hardware Initiative（開放硬體歷史）、the vision（未來展望） and mission（主要使命）.
Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5178162784628658442
Xavier Carcelle has put some videos online from the Open Tech Summit in Taiwan at the beginning of 2008. Juergen Neumann of the Freifunk Community talks about the beginnings and history of open Wi-Fi.
Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4426529986868760558
Dieses Jahr findet am 16. und 17. Oktober wieder
die Fachtagung Wireless Communication and Information an der FHTW in
Berlin statt. Der Call for Abstracts ist bis
zum 1.8.2008 offen.
Innovative und herausragende Entwicklungen sowie
Anwendungsmöglichkeiten kabelloser Kommunikation stehen im Mittelpunkt
der fünften Fachtagung „Wireless Communication and Information“, die am
16. und 17. Oktober 2008 von der FHTW Berlin und dem
Stiftungs-Verbundkolleg Informationsgesellschaft Berlin der
Alcatel-Lucent Stiftung für Kommunikationsforschung organisiert wird.
Zu dem wissenschaftlich-technischen Gedankenaustausch werden namhafte
nationale und internationale Referenten aus Wissenschaft und Forschung
sowie aus Entwicklungsabteilungen der Industrie erwartet.
Mehr Infos hier: http://inka.fhtw-berlin.de/wci/
[via Keks]
Saverio from the Italian Ninux community has now published a video interview Daniel Paufler and I conducted with them at the Wireless Community Weekend in Berlin. Thank you very much for the great montaggio! It is real fun to watch!
Interview to Ninux and Freifunk members at WCW2008 from Saverio Proto on Vimeo.
Direct Link: http://www.vimeo.com/1052320
In Berlin, at C-Base, people from wireless communities all around
Europe meet to share ideas and experiences. See this interview by Mario
Behling with free networks activists from Ninux.org and Freifunk.net
What happened to the application of the freifunk community (Blog entry) for the Google Summer of code? Well, as you can guess by now, unfortunately we did not get it.. even though we were close. I had asked Leslie Hawthorn and she wrote us back the following lines:
We had some nice ideas. Our intention was to serve as an umbrella for all the freifunk projects here, but maybe we can join the program next year. We still have the ideas pages, which is probably also intresting for developers who want to join freifunk projects in the future.
Some of the project ideas were/are:
( http://wiki.freifunk.net/Ideas)
Noch ein Rueckblick in das Jahr 2006: Video-Interview mit Ufo und Svenno von Freifunk Leipzig zu spaeter Stunde beim Wireless Community Weekend 2006 in Berlin.
The Freifunk Wireless Community Weekend 2008 is over. I had a fantastic time meeting so many people pushing the idea of free networks to new hights. The interest in free wireless was overwhelming and we probably had more than double the number of the 51 visitors who put their names on the participants list. Many developers were taking part. We saw presentations about OpenWRT, B.A.T.M.A.N., the HorstTool, mikroFM, OpenHardware and the Luci-Interface for Freifunk networks. Receiving questions about "free networks and the implications of the law" regularly, we were extremely pleased that Reto Mantz recently published a doctoral thesis about this subject and held a presentation at the WCW (slides now available).
Besides German communities we were very happy to meet many friends from other countries like www.guifi.net from Catalunia, Spain, Sergey Yugov from Russia, Jesper Svarre with 28 people from Denmark and our friends from the Rome community ninux.org.
Together with the help of Italian and German Freifunkers Saverio and me made tons of interviews. Be sure it will not take two years this time to see them online 😉 Get a little taste of the WCW2008 with the first of a series of videos already published by our Italian friends.
Per ora vi lascio con questo breve video, che mostra qualche immagine
della domenicale del Wireless Community Weekend. Molto presto verranno
pubblicate le interviste. (http://blog.ninux.org/2008/05/05/lultima-sera-al-wcw2008/)
Direct Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGZcH49j4hw
Ein Blick zurück in das Jahr 2006. In meinem Archiv habe ich ein Interview mit Freifunkern beim Wireless Community Weekend 2006 gefunden. “Bluse” aus Sundhausen und Bastian Bittorf von Freifunk Weimar berichten über die Fortschritte beim Bau freier Netze in ihrer Region.
The countdown for the Freifunk Wireless Community Weekend 2008 conference is running and cven is haevily working on the final preparation.
As of now we have 48 people who have put their name on the participants list on the wiki at http://wiki.freifunk.net/WCW08:participants and many more who have confirmed their participation to us directly. People are joining us in the upcoming days from Freifunk communities from all over Germany and from communities in other countries. Our friends from Italy will be represented by the two well known free wireless evangelists Nino and Saverio from ninux.org and we expect Jesper Svarre from Denmark with a group of 25 people from the Association of Computer Professionals.
The WCW is a self organized conference and community gathering. We will have a community track with communities presenting themselves, e.g. from Bastian from the Weimar Freifunkers and from Keks from the community in Berlin North-East.
On the other side there will be technical talks from developers of OpenWRT, the B.A.T.M.A.N. routing protocol developers Marek Lindner and Simon Wunderlich; Thomas Hirsch – the developer of the freimap and a presentation of sven-ola – the main developer of the Freifunk Firmware,
Further panels cover subjects like Web 2.0 in the Freifunk Universe (by me, Mario Behling) or Open Networks and the current law by Dr. Reto Mantz, who has recently published a book on "Offene Netze und Recht",
Many opportunities to meet with some of the most exciting people in the international freifunk sphere! Open Mesh advocat Electra will take part in the WCW and after returning from the Open Tech Summit in Taiwan Juergen Neumann will present the latest advancements on Open Wireless Hardware.
Last but not least we are happy to welcome participants from the academic scene coming from the TU Berlin and the Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute.
Join us at the Freifunki Wireless Community Weekend in Berlin from May 2-4! Check out the latest updates on http://wiki.freifunk.net/Wireless_Community_Weekend_2008