With internet shutdowns, censorship, and fragile infrastructure becoming a fact of life, communities need communications that keep working. Reticulum is a practical, open networking stack for resilient, decentralised communication across very different links, from Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to LoRa and packet radio.

Project: https://reticulum.community/

This BoF brings together people building with Reticulum (and those curious about it) to share what's working and align on what comes next. Reticulum is at an inflection point: as the original lead developer steps back from public coordination, this is our moment to turn Reticulum into a community-run project that can realise it’s potential as an alternative communication system.

This is a discussion-led working session with people actively deploying and experimenting, including:

• a draft formal protocol specification (reviewers and contributors welcome)
• lessons from a real-world community mesh in Aruba
• members of the Amsterdam Reticulum community

We'll focus on: agreeing priorities for the next 3-12 months, defining a lightweight coordination model (triage/reviews/releases) and turning interoperability learnings into a shared protocol spec scope and an initial conformance/test-vector plan that enables independent implementations.

Outcome: leave with a short set of priorities, named owners for follow-ups, an agreed spec/outline and test-vector plan and a scheduled next check-in.