[IS4CWN] DYI Networking Seminars - deadline extension
Panayotis Antoniadis
panayotis.antoniadis at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 12:31:25 EST 2015
Hi all,
Just to let you know that the submission deadline for the DIY networking
workshop
in Florence has been extended to March 7th.
Here is the detailed CFP:
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Call for papers
Interdisciplinary workshop on Do-It-Yourself networking
May 18-19th, Florence, Italy, co-located with Mobisys 2015
Web site: http://diynetworking.net/
Hosting conference: http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2015/
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.
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.
This workshop wishes to build on a recent interdisciplinary Dagstuhl
seminar on "Do-It-Yourself networking", http://www.dagstuhl.de/14042 ,
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: http://diynetworking.net/dagstuhl_report_14042.pdf
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.
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.
For the technical programme, topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:
- Previous or novel technical contributions in the area of DIY
networking targeted for an interdisciplinary audience.
- Holistic design approaches (infrastructure, protocols, applications,
deployment plans).
- User interfaces and usability both for administrators and users.
- Modelling and analysis of the trade-offs related to privacy, security,
performance, and more.
- Social studies on the use of local networks operating outside the
public Internet, like the recent example of Firechat in Hong Kong.
- Theoretical studies of the interdisciplinary challenges around the
design and deployment of DIY networks.
For the special interdisciplinary session, we welcome the following
types of contributions:
- Demos of working prototypes of DIY networking applications or systems.
- Posters or design mock-ups of imaginary applications.
- Accounts of real-life deployments and experimentation and future
imaginaries.
- Short papers introducing and/or analyzing important concepts that can
facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations.
Submission
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 http://diynetworking.net/submission.php
Important Dates
Submission deadline: March 7, 2015, 11:59 PM EST
Notification deadline: March 22, 2015
Camera-ready workshop papers due: April 2, 2015
DIY networking Workshop at MobiSys 2015: May 18-19, 2015
Workshop chairs
Panayotis Antoniadis (ETH Zurich & nethood.org, CH)
Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, UK)
Jörg Ott (Aalto University, FI)
Keynote speakers
Paul Dourish (University of California Irvine, US)
Michael Smyth (Edinburgh Napier University, GB)
Programme Committee
Mostafa Ammar (GeorgiaTech, US)
Ileana Apostol, (nethood.org, CH)
Elizabeth Belding (University of California Santa Barbara, US)
Ian Brown (Oxfrod University, UK)
Efraín Foglia (mobilitylab & guifi.net, ES)
Marcus Foth (Queensland University of Technology, AU)
Tristan Henderson (University of St. Andrews, UK)
Pan Hui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)
Karin Anna Hummel (ETH Zurich, CH)
George Iosifidis (University of Thessaly, GR)
Jussi Kangasharju (University of Helsinki, FI)
Renato lo Cigno (University of Trento, IT)
Anders Lindgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science Kista, SE)
Leandro Navarro (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ES)
Melanie Du Long de Rosnay (CNRS, FR)
Leonardo Maccari (University of Trento, IT)
Francesca Musiani (CNRS, FR)
Sarfraz Nawaz (University of Cambridge, UK)
Antti Oulasvirta (Aalto University, FI)
Andrea Passarella (CNR Pisa, IT)
Andreea Hossmann-Picu (University of Bern, CH)
Peter Reichl (University of Vienna, AT)
Amalia Sabiescu (Coventry University, UK)
Arjuna Sathiaseelan (Cambridge University, UK)
Andreas Unteidig (Berlin University of the Arts, DE)
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On 05.02.2015 16:51, Panayotis Antoniadis wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> I wanted to write to this list since (very) long time and thanks to
> Emmanuel
> I found now a good excuse :-)
>
> So, I am one of the organizers of this workshop on "DIY networking"
> and my personal interest on this subject is to make such technology
> as easy to install and customize, and empower local actors to organize
> interactions between people in physical proximity (in neighbourhoods
> and public spaces), outside the public Internet.
>
> But why "outside the Internet" is not an easy question to answer and
> I believe that we (scientists from different disciplines, engineers,
> hackers,
> activists, artists, and citizens) need to join forces if we want to
> compete
> with the big tech corporations for empowering citizens to get more
> control over their (local) communications and data.
>
> This workshop is co-located with at a well-known engineering conference,
> and thus subject to its policies, where the focus is more on the
> technological
> and scientific perspective. But we have made an effort to bring people
> outside this community that work in similar and/or complementary problems
> in order to exchange ideas and experiences, and establish collaborations.
>
> For this, we are experimenting with an "special interdisciplinary
> session", which
> welcomes short (2-pages) contributions with free format, demos, and more.
> (see http://diynetworking.net/cfp.php). And yes, experiences from this
> community
> would be really valuable and you are very welcome to submit and present
> your work!
>
> Btw, next Wednesday I will be at CBase in Berlin if there are people
> around
> that would be interested to chat about this "local only" perspective for
> community wireless networks (see also this recently established e-mail
> list: http://librelist.com/browser/off.networks/ )
>
> Looking forward to meeting you in Florence (or elsewhere)!
>
> Panayotis Antoniadis
> http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~pantonia/
> http://nethood.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 24.01.2015 17:01, Emmanuel Baccelli wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> 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:
>> http://diynetworking.net/dagstuhl_report_14042.pdf
>>
>> 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
>> http://diynetworking.net/cfp.php.
>>
>> (I am not one of the organizers, but I think sharing some of your
>> experience would be interesting and very relevant in this context).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Emmanuel
>>
>>
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