Subject: [gaia] Athens Wireless Summit 2015 - Call for Participation / Talks

From: Joseph Bonicioli <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 23:12:14 +0300

Athens Wireless Summit 2015
Call for Participation / Talks

Dear All,

If you are involved in a community network, if you have deployed wireless or fiber technology for a community network, if you love the commons, if you are from the academia running a wireless or community related testbed, then this call is for you!  We are pleased to announce that Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (AWMN) is organizing a two day event titled «Athens Wireless Summit 2015». It will take place during the weekend of the 19th and 20th of September 2015 at Impact Hub Athens Greece. It would be our pleasure to have you there and we encourage you to participate with a talk or a workshop or both.

What is it?
The Athens Wireless Summit 2015 is a two day event which aims to bring people together, from the academia, the world of commons, open source and wireless networks communities and all those involved or interested in wireless network technologies, in order to meet with each other, exchange views and experiences, explore possibilities for cooperation and synergies and to promote the benefits of developing modern telecommunication infrastructure as an enhancement factor for a region.
We aspire to include presentations, discussions, workshops, social events and exhibitions of wireless network technologies, the development of network infrastructure and shared services, the promotion of the social character on developing community networks by citizens for citizens as well as developing networks of active people around these; with examples like the cooperation structures that exist or can be developed between these communities in Greece and abroad.

Where and When
The event will take place on Saturday the 19th and Sunday the 20th of September 2015 at Impact Hub, Karaiskaki 28 in Athens. The entire building of Impact Hub will be available for the two day event. This gives us the opportunity to schedule both seminars and workshops in parallel flows. For more information about Impact Hub, please visit their site at: http://athens.impacthub.net <http://athens.impacthub.net/>
Format and content of the talks

We aspire to keep a balance between community networks, academia, everyday real community applications and related technology subjects. Subjects may be anything related to community networks ranging from applications, wireless technology, mesh protocols, testbeds, other routing protocols, social related subjects, IoT, related research subjects and anything that will make those two days productive, fun and beneficial to all. Related Talks or Workshops will be grouped together and be placed on the schedule in order to have cohesion of subjects and help participants choose their tracks. Finally we welcome proposals of anything you think may be of interest to community network enthusiasts. The format can be of any kind, for example a presentation, talk, discussion, debate, practical workshop, or film screening. The suggested duration for talks is 20 minutes where workshops can be arranged to take anything up to 1 hour depending on slot and space availability.

Lightening talks

Lightening talks are shorter talks which can be submitted after the main workshops/talks deadline, to give everybody the opportunity to present their project/idea. Each lightening talk will be 7 minutes long, followed by 3 minutes of questions. Projector slides can be submitted in EPS or PDF format to: [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>

Proposed Draft of the Program

Presentations / Talks
Time
Saturday the 19th
Open Space - 1st Floor
Sunday the 20th
Open Space - 1st Floor
09:30 - 10:30
Arrival / Registrations / Coffee
Arrival / Registrations / Coffee
10:30 - 10:45
Welcome / Objectives of the day
Welcome / Objectives of the day
10:45 - 11:00
The schedule of the day (speakers, workshops, panels)
The schedule of the day (speakers, workshops, panels)
11:00 - 11:20
… (1st Presentation)
… (1st Presentation)
11:20 - 11:40
… (2nd Presentation)
… (2nd Presentation)
11:40 - 12:00
… (3rd Presentation)
… (3rd Presentation)
12:00 - 12:30
Discussion Panel (Subject?)
Discussion Panel (Subject?)
12:30 - 13:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
13:00 - 13:20
… (4th Presentation)
… (4th Presentation)
13:20 - 13:40
… (5th Presentation)
… (5th Presentation)
13:40 - 14:00
… (6th Presentation)
… (6th Presentation)
14:00 - 15:00
Break for Light Lunch
Break for Light Lunch
15:00 - 15:20
… (7th Presentation)
… (7th Presentation)
15:20 - 15:40
… (8th Presentation)
… (8th Presentation)
15:40 - 16:00
… (9th Presentation)
… (9th Presentation)
16:00 - 16:30
Discussion Panel (Subject?)
Discussion Panel (Subject?)
16:30 - 17:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:20
… (10th Presentation)
… (10th Presentation)
17:20 - 17:40
… (11th Presentation)
… (11th Presentation)
17:40 - 18:00
… (12th Presentation)
… (12th Presentation)
18:00 - 18:30
Discussion Panel (Subject?)
Conclusions - End of Day 1
Discussion Panel (Subject?)
Conclusions - End of Event
18:30 - till late
Social networking / Party
Social networking / Party

Suggested Workshops/ideas

WORKSHOPS
Time
Saturday the 19th
Open Space - Ground Floorr
Sunday the 20th
Open Space - GroundFloor
?
Wireless Node, Installation & Configuration
ΙοΤ applications
?
Operating Systems & their customization
Optical Links
?
Off the grid applications
Applications on Community Networks
?
Confine Platform
Research Infrastructures
?
..
..

EXHIBITIONS
Room

White Room
Photo Galleries of Wireless Community Network (CWN) Node facilities throughout Greece/Europe/The world
...
Exhibition with Wireless Network Equipment used by CWNs

Your Exhibition!

Submissions

To allow an efficient handling of your proposal, please submit your proposal utilizing this google form (http://goo.gl/forms/0GccRp8SaZ <http://goo.gl/forms/0GccRp8SaZ>). If you do not like Google forms,  please provide the following information and send them by email to the address below:

Your name
What format will it take (talk/workshop/panel discussion/lightening talk/…)
Your topic headline
Your topic description which can be brief (does not need to exceed a couple of lines) but should provide a reasonable summary of your talk
The dates of your stay at the event and (optional) preferred day for your slot
The duration of the slot if you wish to do a workshop (all other slots will be limited to one hour)
Any requirements you need, for example, a projector.
The email address you need to send the above info to is [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>
Come and Join us!!!
We are convinced that your participation in the event will contribute significantly to the agenda framework and the success of this event. This event is a great opportunity to get together and share ideas between people who have common interests on wireless community networks and wireless networking technologies.
Should you have any questions, inquiries, comments along with suggestions regarding the agenda, please feel free contact us using the following mail address [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>.
More info will be posted in the coming days and weeks on the event site http://events.awmn.net <http://events.awmn.net/>. It is still under construction but it will soon contain all the necessary info. We are looking forward to your response and participation in this event.
Yours sincerely,

The organizing team of
Athens Wireless Summit 2015