2nd Village Telco Workshop - July 20-24, 2009

Dates
The workshop will be held from July 20th to 24th, 2009 inclusive.

Venue
The workshop will be held in the same venue as last year, namely the meeting facilities at the Shuttleworth Foundation. Shuttleworth Foundation 12 Plein Street Durbanville 7550 Telephone: +27 (0) 21 970 1200 Steve Song - direct line: +27 (0) 21 970 1221 Steve Song - mobile: +27 83 482 2088 http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org

Accommodation
We will probably book the same guest house as well (Kolpings Guest House). Stand by for confirmation of that.

Participants

 * David Rowe (Rowetel)
 * Elektra (FreiFunk)
 * Rael Lissoos (Dabba)
 * Kobus Roux (Meraka)
 * George James (Meraka)
 * Edwin Chen (Atcom)
 * Steve Song (Shuttleworth)
 * Alan Levin (Vanilla)
 * Lionel Harris (BanziNet)
 * Joshua Denila (Microchip Technologies)
 * Antoine van Gelder (Afrimesh)
 * David Carman (Scarborough Mesh)
 * Jeff Wishnie (Inveneo)
 * Sigqibo Pangabantu (Silulo Technologies - Khayalitsha Computer training and Internet cafe operator)
 * Lerato Rani (Khayalitsha Business chamber)

Agenda
We are currently brainstorming the agenda at UserVoice.com. Feel free to suggest ideas at

http://villagetelco.uservoice.com/

Scenarios
Key issues: power, antenna, housing

Densely populated SA township

 * village, lots of users not too far away from each other
 * low technical knowledge
 * differing levels of line of sight
 * MPs deployed by operator
 * townships, peri-urban
 * mostly powered environment but quality variable and unstable
 * up to 1000 homes in a 300m radius
 * majority deployed internally?

Rural Village

 * possibly hilly
 * less dense populations
 * clusters of huts 500-1000 metres apart
 * grid power

East Timor

 * power on for six hours per day - battery buffer system