2026-07-10 –, Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab
Introduction into how you can communicate off-the-grid with qaul and build your own local communication network.
qaul is a P2P mesh communication app, with a strong focus on privacy and usability. Every user is identified via their self-sovereign cryptographic identity.
It not only communicates P2P, but builds a mesh network, interconnecting multiple communication such as BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy), Local Area Networks, and Internet overlay links.
The messaging app has an automated user discovery, end-to-end encrypted direct messaging and group chats for text, voice-messages and files, as well as public communication channels.
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
- Community Networks Networking Session
- 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
- Building & Testing Antennas for LoRa Communication