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"Utopie ist machbar, Herr Nachbar!" -- Free Radio Frequency Networks and Wavelan in Berlin, Sven Wagner & Cornelius Keller, BerlinBackBone e.a.

BerlinBackBone is a independent self-organising initiative of Berlin's e-cultura and the Wavelan groups. The project's idea is to provide a network infrastructure for the independent cultural institutions and free projects by Wireless Lan technologies (802.11b/g/a), to promote new forms of cooperation and knowledge exchange. The first participants are bootlab,c-base, club transmediale (Maria am Ufer) and Tacheles. Those four institutions are now able to share services (Streaming/Voice-over-IP, c-tools) and to communicate without boundaries to almost no-budget conditions. At the same time BerlinBackBone is a experimental playground of networking people and freecasters, which are sharing fun and interests on the free side of the net.

Basic Workshop: "It depends on...!" (Starting 18:00; limited number of attendants)

Deep in the c-base "nerd area" Offline-Horst will hold an "hands-on" workshop for DIY antennas. Basic principles of radio transmitting in the 2,4 GHz branch and its practical implementation in form of a simple biquad antenna for domestic use. The coverage? -- It depends on...!

Lecture: "Just do it!" (20:15)

With simple hardware and modest financial effort you can join the BerlinBackBone. Cornelius Keller und Sven Wagner are telling how it all began and which the technology and topology are all about.

Panel: "Advanced Strategies" (21:00)

What are the chances of Ad-hoc networks and MobileMeshes in the BBB? Introduction to the functionality and operating modes as well as the realisation of different conceptions of Ad-hoc networks. Bruno Randolf will present a specially developed hardware for Ad-hoc networks that are running an open OS with MobileMesh. Elektra will explicate the origins and basics of MobileMesh. She will demonstrate with her Linux-live-CD, that almost every notebook as well as dated computer hardware can be transformed to a MobileMesh node.

Subsequent to the panel and the workshop there will be room for a round table talk with all visitors and participants about the utopian and the more down-to-earth perspectives for those networks.

http://www.wavelan-berlin.de

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