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Peter Stuge peter at stuge.seHi Sascha! First of all a big thank you to you and your team for your support at 27C3 and at camp! For 28C3 we would very much like to peer with you again, and we work on being more structured this time, to be a better partner for eventphone and a better provider for the users. One part of this is the osmocom-event-orga at lists.osmocom.org mailing list[1], which can be used to reach people who should be in the know about the organization of mobile phone communications at events. We will attempt to provide mobile-cluey staff to join in a helpdesk function, but I am not convinced that this will be consistent. Andreas (jolly) has offered to work on mobile helpdesk, but IMO one or two people is not enough by far to run a mobile helpdesk comfortably. I think we would need more like five people, and we simply aren't that many.. To compensate for this, our idea is to give POC direct access to the OpenBSC instance that is running the GSM network, as well as neccessary training, e.g. before the event on a wiki page, and during the event in person, on how to monitor the network, check the status of a subscriber, submit SMS directly, etc. In addition, we want to be more available for your helpdesk, in person as far as we can, but at the very least electronically (IRC, jabber, DECT, ...) in case of any need for assistance. The network will consist of 6 ip.access nanoBTS units installed throughout the bcc, and unlike the Nokia MetroSite we used at camp these BTSes are somewhat well tested, and should run fairly stable as long as we don't enable GPRS (we might enable it at night for testing though) - the only known incompatibility is with some HTC Desire phones, which send a USSD request on startup which OpenBSC currently doesn't support. Of course we are happy to contribute some money to the POC coffee fund from SIM card sales profit. All old SIM cards will continue to work. New SIM cards sold will likely be sysmoSIM[2] since there aren't too many magicSIM available. The primary user-visible difference is that sysmoSIM comes with PIN and PUK, both printed on the card, and the PIN is required to log on to the card. The procedure for subscribers to join the network will otherwise be identical to the procedure at camp. Please give us some feedback on these ideas! We want to improve the mobile phone experience for everyone involved, users as well as operations. In particular please also let us know if you have ideas that we haven't thought of! Kind regards, //Peter & Holger (Harald is also on the list) [1] http://lists.osmocom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/osmocom-event-orga [2] http://shop.sysmocom.de/products/sysmosim