Dear Dan, two weeks ago I submitted a proposal for a panel on Community Cloud Networks, using the on line tool. I have not received any feedback, and I am wondering if the proposal did go thru, or if I should try again. Please advise.
Thank you, Ermanno On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Dan Staples < danstap...@opentechinstitute.org> wrote: > FYI, the deadline for workshop and panel proposals at this year's Summit > has been extended until July 1st. See below for more info. > > -- > > Are you passionate about using technology to improve your community? Do > you want to help expand access to affordable Internet? Are you an > advocate for open technology, ICT4D or community-owned infrastructure? > > If so, then we invite to you to participate in this year's International > Summit for Community Wireless Networks (IS4CWN) > <http://2013.wirelesssummit.org/>. The Summit will take place in > Berlin on October 2-4, 2013. > > IS4CWN is a gathering of technology experts, policy analysts, > on-the-ground specialists, and researchers working on state-of-the-art > community broadband projects across the globe. Above all, IS4CWN is a > community of communities, and the annual summit serves as an opportunity > to share ideas and challenges, discuss policy issues, and coordinate > research and development efforts. > > The 2013 Summit theme is community. In the past decade -- which included > the founding of Freifunk <http://start.freifunk.net/>, the birth of the > International Summit for Community Wireless Networks, and the genesis of > major projects including Commotion <https://commotionwireless.net/> and > CONFINE <http://confine-project.eu/> -- the community wireless movement > has expanded substantially in both size and visibility. > > But where do we go from here? How can we take the movement to the next > level in terms of technological advancement, community engagement, and > diversity? We encourage our speakers, workshop leaders, and participants > to think big this year and help us grow our community of communities. > > Interested? Head on over to www.WirelessSummit.org > <http://www.wirelesssummit.org/>. > Registration is open and forms to submit workshop proposals and > request travel funding are available. Early registrants will receive a > 50% discount. > > Potential topics include: using wireless for social justice, rural > broadband frameworks, technical developments in mesh networking, > spectrum policy, training communities in technical skills, case studies > of networks, challenges of corporate monopolies, and much more. > > This year's Summit is committed to having a diversity of voices and > experience, and we're looking to have a lot of new faces in the room. > Community networks encompass a whole range of social, political and > technical challenges, so technical knowledge is definitely not required. > > Access to technology and technical knowledge has been historically > inequitable and remains so to this day. Recognizing this, the > International Summit for Community Wireless Networks aspires to include > participants and speakers from a broad range of backgrounds and > experiences. We seek and welcome diversity in order to reflect the > communities that wireless networks can and should serve, cultivating > expertise, creativity, and innovation. Please join us in creating an > environment of respect, equity, and accessibility at all levels of > Summit involvement. > > -- > Dan Staples > > Open Technology Institute > https://commotionwireless.net > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- Ermanno Pietrosemoli Presidente FundaciĆ³n Escuela Latinoamericana de Redes (EsLaRed) www.EsLaRed.org.ve
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