The Workshop
The 10 day workshop provided an introduction to various aspects of building community wireless networks at various levels: from general planning to fine detail, from technical solutions to human factors.

Classroom presentations were mixed with interactive hands-on sessions, experiments and test setups. Linksys has donated 100 routers to be used in this workshop and later on by AirJaldi and TibTec.

Program

Day 1 - Thursday, October 26

• Introduction
• Case stories: Wireless projects from around the world
• Open Space 1

• Introducing ourselves
• Planning the week
• Wireless cases, projects, questions

Day 2 - Friday, October 27

• Basic wireless infrastructure and topologies
• Basic radio physics
• Lab: Physics experiments with trees and walls and people …
• Open Space 2

• Wireless cases, projects, questions, continued

Day 3 - Saturday, October 28

• Wireless standards
• Access point configuration - Basics
• Wireless client installation
• Lab

• Unwiring the classroom
• Access point and client setup
• Linux
• Windows

Day 4 - Sunday, October 29

• Planning a wireless network
• Outdoor radio simulation
• Radio link calculation
• Lab
• RadioMobile / SRTM data workshop
• Theory vs Reality
• Field Trip on Location
• Open Space 3
• Wireless longshots

Day 5 - Monday, October 30

• Antennas,cables and connectors
• Open Space 4
• Antennas – DIY
• Lab
• Building and modifying antennas
• Cantenna
• Patches
• USB woks and dishes

Day 6 - Tuesday, October 31

• Mesh networking
• Communication towers
• Open Space 5
• Power: renewable and autonomous energy

Day 7 - Wednesday, November 01

• Access point/Router configuration - In depth
• Lab
• Routers hack day
• Firmware flashing
• Open Space 6
• Open and free firmware

Day 8 - Thursday, November 02

• Troubleshooting wireless networks
• Wireless security
• Lab
• Using advanced wireless tools

Day 9, Friday, November 03

• Network management and monitoring
• Linux-based infrastructure
• Open Space 7
• Social, cultural and spiritual aspects
• Gender aspects

Day 10, Saturday, Novemnber 04

• Budgeting and planning
• Shopping and sourcing
• Open Space 8
• Going on from here
• Future projects
• Future Roadshows
• Summary

Trainers

• Elektra
• Sebastian Buettrich
• Guest trainers: Ermanno Pietrosemoli, Yahel Ben-David, Stan. Swan

The Wireless Roadshow
The Roadshow is a project aimed at spreading knowledge about how to build and operate wireless community networks. It focuses on practical implementation and covers both the technical and social factors necessary for the smooth long term running of wireless network infrastructure. The target group are (technology and non-technology) NGOs and private companies working with these.

The wireless roadshow has been developed over a number of years from practical experience of training in workshops around the world and with input and guidance from the maintainers of a great many real life networks.

The Wireless Roadshow hopes to be used as a model for setting up similar practical training workshops in conjunction with the materials and documentation available at http://wndw.net.
The idea and concept of the WirelessRoadshow is meant to be spread and reused - and we are therefore looking for:

• potential venues for roadshow events
• new trainers for taking the project forward
• contributors to the growing pool of documentation and support materials.
• volunteers to assist with future roadshow events

The Wireless Roadshow is cooperation between Informal and wire.less.dk.

Materials
Materials will a.o. draw on those developed in the projects

• Wireless Networking in the Developing World
• Capacity building for community wireless connectivity in Africa
• Wireless schools at ICTP Triest
• USB cookware WiFi