2026-07-10 –, Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab
Network among community networks practitioners and interested people. Exchange knowledge and learnings, and introduce interested people to the best practice and creation of community networks.
Wireless mesh community networks are a useful way to build your own communication infrastructure, bridge the last mile, lower the digital divide and also to build censorship resilient community communication networks.
We will network, exchange and discuss the burning topics.
Mathias is a contemporary artist living in Switzerland and Berlin. He is co-founder and project manager of qaul.net, an off-the-grid p2p mesh messenger App. Mathias is active in community networks such as Freifunk, and helped build up community mesh networks around the world. He is a board member of the Special Interest Group for Community Network Infrastructures of the Internet Society.
- Demo Night Market
- sig0lease - collaborative service discovery publication for local network services
- Cross-Pollination between Peer-to-Peer & Local First + Decentralized Hardware/Local Community Networks Tracks
- Demo Night Market Rehearsal
- qaul قول Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App
- Building & Testing Antennas for LoRa Communication
- Background in wireless mesh networking (published on interference models within IEEE802.11 networks)
- Co-organizer of https://battlemesh.org since 2017
- Part of the 'SSI movement' (mostly around W3C DIDs) since 2018 https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/fediverse-did-integration.md
- Pursuing a PhD at University of Vienna, faculty of computer science
https://www.netidee.at/sites/default/files/2022-08/PhD%20Expose%20Paul%20Fuxjaeger.pdf
More context info about my current work: https://atmosphereconf.org/event/jaAWVRY (latest talk at #atmosphereconf 2026 in Vancouver)
I'm an IT Specialist and the Founder of the Africa Rural Internet and STEM Initiative (AFRISTEMI), a Ghanaian startup nonprofit organization working to connect rural communities to the internet and providing STEM education these marginalized communities.
My interests include digital inclusion, digital education, community networks and tech policy. Current DWeb Camp Pollinator and 2024 DWeb fellow.
- Vibes from Back Home, Planet Earth
- Root to Rise: Morning Aerobics & Movement
- Spotlight Session: Get to know the Pollinators
- Root to Rise: Morning Aerobics & Movement
- Building the People’s Internet: Mesh Networks and Policy Advocacy in Ghana
- Root to Rise: Morning Aerobics & Movement
- The Art of Not Being Invisible