Day 2 at CUWiN Summit May 19
Today we started our panel at about 10am where we introduced the european networks.
- guifi.net (Spain) - Ramon, Jodi
- BGWireless (Serbia) - Bogdan, Nemanja
- Freifunk Leipzig (Germany) - Matthias aka U.F.O.
- FunkFeuer (Austria) - Andreas, Aaron, Me
The panel was kinda complicated. Yesterday we wanted to focus on 2 to 3 questions we should talk about (i won’t say throw up again - thanks Laura 
), but it was waytoo complicated to find 3 questions which would fit for everyone as our networks are currently so different. So we decided to introduce our networks, go into questions directly and leave the next days open for attendees to question us. We really tried to keep our information short, but we just couldn’t make it under 40 minutes. As far as i’ve heard from Laura and Faith they both liked our panel though - thanks for this. 
In the afternoon i attended Holistic Planning & Deployment of Wireless Networks. It was about further possibilities to make a value out of community wireless networks for their sponsors. There was one idea regarding the reading of the power meters and that power companies could have a real interest in this which i think is a very good point to think about. As i had to attend a conference call i had to leave too early from there.
Next panel was from Sascha Meinrath which was Taking COMMONS global. It was interesting to hear their idea about how to break the broadband gap they have. As this problem is not existant in europe we have another position here though. But nevertheless i guess it would be kind of a statement from us to show our support. Thefor i will give my best and hope that we find a partner for this to achieve, to connect to COMMONS in the future.
Also had another nice talk with Daniel from CUWiN about splicing of fibre and that kind of stuff where there was a majority who really thinks or has thought it is way too complicated to do splicing on your own (Thats no rocket science - if you have the equipment!). Also it seemed impossible to some to build a working Mesh-Router as a non-techie. We pointed over to guifi.net who have a fully working solution - where the whole configuration is compiled out of the data provided by the user. After that they simply have to import this and they’re done. Not more than 10 steps. We also had an even more automated solution for that in Austria till a year ago. There we compiled a whole binary firmware for certain devices (like the Linksys WRT54G) for the user and they simply had to upload this file directly via the normal webinterface and they were done. We stopped this because it caused too much support effort for us though. Users just weren’t aware how to fix their devices on their own if something was broken. However we are rethinking this in the context of taking FunkFeuer to a broader range of people, because we’ve seen as guifi.net does it’s possible to make support cooperations with local dealers for that.
The social event was at Nottinghams this time. This was a way more nice bar. I played shuffleboard for my first time there, nevertheless it seems that americans don’t like the austrian drinking games associated with it.