[change] Fwd: [TIER] Fwd: [gaia] Extremecom 2016 - The Mendonoma Expedition - Call for Papers and Demos

[Yaw Anokwa]

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A good opportunity to explore a TIER project first hand.
Should be fun...

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From: CHATZOPOULOS Dimitrios 
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Subject: [gaia] Extremecom 2016 - The Mendonoma Expedition - Call for
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[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]

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CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMOS

7th Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing - The Mendonoma
Expedition
ExtremeCom 2016

14-19 August 2016, Manchester, Medocino county, CA, USA

http://www.extremecom.org/

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Scope
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The Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing (ExtremeCom) brings
together researchers and practitioners in areas related to communications in
rural, remote or other extreme environments, and computing in extreme
operating conditions such as extreme temperatures and energy constraints,
extreme quantities ("big data"), extremely large-scale systems, and extreme
levels of threat and uncertainty, in order to gain experience and insight
into
the challenges that such environments pose for the network and the users.

We welcome a broad range of topics concerning both technical and economical
aspects, for example wireless communication, mobile computing, low power
devices and protocols, delay tolerant networks and other networking
paradigms,
distributed computing paradigms, big data, distributed systems, cloud
computing, business and services models, user experiences and web
applications. Researches addressing computing challenges in general mobile
environments (even not completely extreme) are also welcomed by the
conference.

Following on from the success of ExtremeCom 2009 - The Midnight Sun
Expedition
in Laponia, Sweden, ExtremeCom 2010 - The Himalayan Expedition in Dharamsala,
India, ExtremeCom 2011 - The Amazon Expedition in Manaus, Brazil, ExtremeCom
2012 - The Swiss Alps Winter Expedition in Zurich, Switzerland, ExtremeCom
2013 - The Volcanic Expedition in the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano region in
Iceland, and ExtremeCom 2014 - The Galapagos Expedition in Ecuador, we
present
the ExtremeCom 2016 edition: The Mendonoma Expedition. The conference will
contain 3 days of excursions in the stunning nature of coastal northern
California (Mendocino county). Along the way, participants will get to see
and
experience the varying landscape and visit coastal areas, explore the
Stornetta lands national monument, and hike to the Point Arena hot springs
along the Garcia river. During these excursions, we will visit the landing
site of the original trans-pacific coaxial cables, which is today one of
North-America's most important transoceanic fiber landing station, as well as
several deployment sites of the FurtherReach.Net rural network where
participants will interact with subscribers, operators and developers of this
service to learn from their experience. The immersion will not only give a
better idea of both the technical and user requirements of such rural
deployments, but it will also give many opportunities for informal research
discussions between the participants. Participants that have their own
software for scenarios like this will also, to as great an extent as
possible,
be encouraged to test and demonstrate it within this environment. After the
excursions, there will be two days of paper presentations and demos. Focus
will still be on informal research discussions, with the hope that the field
experience will give participants the ability to discuss the topics in a new
light.

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Important dates
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Submission deadline: May 24, 2016
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2016
Early registration deadline: July 10, 2016
Registration deadline: July 21, 2016
Conference dates: August 14-19, 2016

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Submission Guidelines
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Participants should submit 6 page papers about ideas and visions about the
topics of the conference or demo proposals to be shown during the conference.
Visionary and thought-provoking papers that are likely to generate much
discussion during the conference are especially solicited. The aim of the
conference is to maintain an informal environment, where new research ideas
can be discussed and developed. We will also have a demo session where
participants can show their implementations and systems. If you want to
show a
demo, please submit a 2 page demo proposal using the same submission
system as
for conference papers, including the prefix "Demo: " in the title.

We 

[change] Fwd: [TIER] Fwd: [noise@ischool] Ford/Mozilla Open Web Fellows!

[Yaw Anokwa]

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From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall 
Date: Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 11:28 PM
Subject: [noise@ischool] Ford/Mozilla Open Web Fellows!
To: "no...@ischool.berkeley.edu" 


I highly encourage folks to consider this program and especially those
of you who have more global tech policy interests.



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developers, activists, educators and other technologists eager to
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The 2016 cohort will be a global group working on a variety of
projects that protect the open Internet. This year’s host
organizations are:

Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law —Nairobi, Kenya

The Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of
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ColorOfChange.org—New York, NY

Data & Society—New York, NY

Derechos Digitales—Santiago, Chile

European Digital Rights (EDRi) —Brussels, Belgium

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This is a 10-month fellowship. The application window is open until
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September of this year. For more information, visit
https://advocacy.mozilla.org/open-web-fellows/. Questions? Email
openwebfell...@mozilla.com






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