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Hi all,<br>
<br>
Just to let you know that the submission deadline for the DIY
networking workshop<br>
in Florence has been extended to March 7th.<br>
<br>
Here is the detailed CFP:<br>
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Call for papers
<br>
<br>
Interdisciplinary workshop on Do-It-Yourself networking
<br>
May 18-19th, Florence, Italy, co-located with Mobisys 2015
<br>
Web site: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://diynetworking.net/">http://diynetworking.net/</a>
<br>
Hosting conference: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2015/">http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2015/</a>
<br>
<br>
Wireless technology enables today the creation of local offline
networks, which can operate outside the public Internet. Even when
the Internet is easily accessible, such local wireless networks
form an interesting alternative, autonomous, option for
communication, which 1) ensures that all connected devices are in
de facto physical proximity, 2) offers opportunities and novel
capabilities for creative combinations of virtual and physical
contact, 3) enables free, anonymous and easy access, without the
need for pre-installed applications or any credentials, and 4) can
create feelings of ownership and independence, and lead to the
appropriation of the hybrid space in the long-run.
<br>
<br>
In other words, local wireless networks provide the technological
means for more participatory processes, benefiting from the
grassroots engagement of citizens in implementing the smart city
vision through novel forms of social networking, crowd sourcing,
and citizen science. But for these possibilities to be
materialized there are many practical, social, political, and
economic challenges that need to be addressed, and which require
the involvement of researchers and practitioners from different
fields and backgrounds.
<br>
<br>
This workshop wishes to build on a recent interdisciplinary
Dagstuhl seminar on "Do-It-Yourself networking", <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.dagstuhl.de/14042">http://www.dagstuhl.de/14042</a>
, which brought together a highly diverse group of researchers,
practitioners, and activists to reflect on related technological
and social issues. We made a first step to bridge the
communication gap between those that build the technology
(computer scientists, engineers, and hackers) and those that
understand better the complex urban environment where this
technology will be deployed (social and political scientists,
urban planners, designers, and artists), as described in our final
report: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://diynetworking.net/dagstuhl_report_14042.pdf">http://diynetworking.net/dagstuhl_report_14042.pdf</a>
<br>
<br>
The main objective of this workshop is to make one more step to
bridge this gap in the engineering domain, beyond wishful
thinking, and establish a series of similar workshops on the topic
of DIY networking to be hosted every year in a different venue.
So, in the 1st Interdisciplinary Workshop on DIY Networking at the
Mobisys 2015 Conference, we invite 1) technical contributions that
render DIY networking technology easier to be understood and used
by less technically savvy people, and 2) theoretical contributions
regarding the various inherent trade-offs in the design of DIY
networks, which can help to build common understandings of the
relationships between engineering decisions, design constraints
and requirements, policies, and social impacts.
<br>
<br>
The workshop will include a special interdisciplinary session, as
an experiment, which will facilitate the participation of a more
diverse audience than typically observed in engineering
conferences like Mobisys. For this session, we will invite the
presentation of working prototypes of mature DIY networking
frameworks, novel application ideas by designers and social
scientists, and short tutorials on important concepts such as
power, privacy, self-organization, space, and community, in light
of the application of such technology in urban settings.
<br>
<br>
For the technical programme, topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:
<br>
- Previous or novel technical contributions in the area of DIY
networking targeted for an interdisciplinary audience.
<br>
- Holistic design approaches (infrastructure, protocols,
applications, deployment plans).
<br>
- User interfaces and usability both for administrators and users.
<br>
- Modelling and analysis of the trade-offs related to privacy,
security, performance, and more.
<br>
- Social studies on the use of local networks operating outside
the public Internet, like the recent example of Firechat in Hong
Kong.
<br>
- Theoretical studies of the interdisciplinary challenges around
the design and deployment of DIY networks.
<br>
<br>
For the special interdisciplinary session, we welcome the
following types of contributions:
<br>
- Demos of working prototypes of DIY networking applications or
systems.
<br>
- Posters or design mock-ups of imaginary applications.
<br>
- Accounts of real-life deployments and experimentation and future
imaginaries.
<br>
- Short papers introducing and/or analyzing important concepts
that can facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations.
<br>
<br>
<br>
Submission
<br>
<br>
Submitted papers for the technical programme should follow the
format of the Mobisys conference (6 pages maximum). For the
special interdisciplinary session, submissions should be limited
to 2 pages, without a predefined format. More details for the
submission procedure are available at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://diynetworking.net/submission.php">http://diynetworking.net/submission.php</a>
<br>
<br>
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Important Dates
<br>
<br>
Submission deadline: March 7, 2015, 11:59 PM EST
<br>
Notification deadline: March 22, 2015
<br>
Camera-ready workshop papers due: April 2, 2015
<br>
DIY networking Workshop at MobiSys 2015: May 18-19, 2015
<br>
<br>
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Workshop chairs
<br>
<br>
Panayotis Antoniadis (ETH Zurich & nethood.org, CH)
<br>
Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, UK)
<br>
Jörg Ott (Aalto University, FI)
<br>
<br>
<br>
Keynote speakers
<br>
<br>
Paul Dourish (University of California Irvine, US)
<br>
Michael Smyth (Edinburgh Napier University, GB)
<br>
<br>
<br>
Programme Committee
<br>
<br>
Mostafa Ammar (GeorgiaTech, US)
<br>
Ileana Apostol, (nethood.org, CH)
<br>
Elizabeth Belding (University of California Santa Barbara, US)
<br>
Ian Brown (Oxfrod University, UK)
<br>
Efraín Foglia (mobilitylab & guifi.net, ES)
<br>
Marcus Foth (Queensland University of Technology, AU)
<br>
Tristan Henderson (University of St. Andrews, UK)
<br>
Pan Hui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)
<br>
Karin Anna Hummel (ETH Zurich, CH)
<br>
George Iosifidis (University of Thessaly, GR)
<br>
Jussi Kangasharju (University of Helsinki, FI)
<br>
Renato lo Cigno (University of Trento, IT)
<br>
Anders Lindgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science Kista,
SE)
<br>
Leandro Navarro (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ES)
<br>
Melanie Du Long de Rosnay (CNRS, FR)
<br>
Leonardo Maccari (University of Trento, IT)
<br>
Francesca Musiani (CNRS, FR)
<br>
Sarfraz Nawaz (University of Cambridge, UK)
<br>
Antti Oulasvirta (Aalto University, FI)
<br>
Andrea Passarella (CNR Pisa, IT)
<br>
Andreea Hossmann-Picu (University of Bern, CH)
<br>
Peter Reichl (University of Vienna, AT)
<br>
Amalia Sabiescu (Coventry University, UK)
<br>
Arjuna Sathiaseelan (Cambridge University, UK)
<br>
Andreas Unteidig (Berlin University of the Arts, DE)
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On 05.02.2015 16:51, Panayotis Antoniadis wrote:<br>
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Hi all!<br>
<br>
I wanted to write to this list since (very) long time and thanks
to Emmanuel <br>
I found now a good excuse :-)<br>
<br>
So, I am one of the organizers of this workshop on "DIY
networking"<br>
and my personal interest on this subject is to make such
technology<br>
as easy to install and customize, and empower local actors to
organize<br>
interactions between people in physical proximity (in
neighbourhoods<br>
and public spaces), outside the public Internet.<br>
<br>
But why "outside the Internet" is not an easy question to answer
and<br>
I believe that we (scientists from different disciplines,
engineers, hackers,<br>
activists, artists, and citizens) need to join forces if we want
to compete <br>
with the big tech corporations for empowering citizens to get
more <br>
control over their (local) communications and data. <br>
<br>
This workshop is co-located with at a well-known engineering
conference, <br>
and thus subject to its policies, where the focus is more on the
technological<br>
and scientific perspective. But we have made an effort to bring
people<br>
outside this community that work in similar and/or complementary
problems<br>
in order to exchange ideas and experiences, and establish
collaborations.<br>
<br>
For this, we are experimenting with an "special
interdisciplinary session", which <br>
welcomes short (2-pages) contributions with free format, demos,
and more.<br>
(see <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://diynetworking.net/cfp.php">http://diynetworking.net/cfp.php</a>).
And yes, experiences from this community<br>
would be really valuable and you are very welcome to submit and
present<br>
your work!<br>
<br>
Btw, next Wednesday I will be at CBase in Berlin if there are
people around<br>
that would be interested to chat about this "local only"
perspective for<br>
community wireless networks (see also this recently established
e-mail<br>
list: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://librelist.com/browser/off.networks/">http://librelist.com/browser/off.networks/</a>
)<br>
<br>
Looking forward to meeting you in Florence (or elsewhere)!<br>
<br>
Panayotis Antoniadis<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/%7Epantonia/">http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~pantonia/</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://nethood.org">http://nethood.org</a><br>
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On 24.01.2015 17:01, Emmanuel Baccelli wrote:<br>
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type="cite">
<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,
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<div>In case this escaped your radar: scanning though this
report from the recent Dagstuhl seminar on Do-It-Yourself
(DYI) networking, I thought it could be relevant here: <a
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href="http://diynetworking.net/dagstuhl_report_14042.pdf">http://diynetworking.net/dagstuhl_report_14042.pdf</a></div>
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<div>Moreover, in case some of you are interested in talking
about your own experience, there is an upcoming workshop at
ACM Mobisys 2015, where you could submit a short paper and
come talk about it <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://diynetworking.net/cfp.php">http://diynetworking.net/cfp.php</a>. </div>
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<div>(I am not one of the organizers, but I think sharing some
of your experience would be interesting and very relevant in
this context).</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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<div>Emmanuel</div>
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