General Information

This meeting is becomming the biggest MikroTik event ever. MikroTik will be sending a big contingent of support engineers, speakers, and management to support all customers from individual users to distributors.

Krakow is a very beautiful European old city and a low cost destination for Europeans with low cost charter and regular flights from almost all European countries. The conference hotel, Qubos, is one of the newest and best hotels in Krakow. negotiated a very good group rate. Don't miss out on this great event.

Purpose of the Meeting

MikroTik Router operating system and software offer a new and exciting alternative to traditional brand name router solutions. This will be a meeting that will present strategies for deploying new and innovative MikroTik RouterOS and RouterBoard hardware applications.

Also don't miss the training before the MUM, that's two events at the same place!

Entry Price

Entry price is 50$ if you register online until one week before MUM, register now!

Dates of Events

1. Training will take place on February 25-27 and is a separate event, MUM registration price does not include Training!
2. Welcome cocktail will be held the evening before MUM (Feb 27th, from 6.00PM)
3. MUM 2008 Poland will take place on February 28th-29th, 2008

Meeting Venue

Information in the accomodation section

Internet Access

There is wireless Internet access available, it's free of charge.

Who Should Attend

• Corporate network engineers
• Internet Service Providers
• Companies with MikroTik related products and services

What Attendees Will Learn

• Where and how MikroTik RouterOS is being used
• New plans for enterprise routing applications
• Innovative ideas and strategies
• New opportunities for MikroTik products and services

Guest Lectures

See agenda please

Language

Official language English

Free Registration Vouchers

please note that if you are using an invitation voucher when registering, you will not qualify for the free L4 AP license. You will get a free T-Shirt though, just like all other visitors.

Insurance

Please, note that organizers cannot provide any type of insurance for participants. Participants of the Symposium are recommended to arrange individual insurance.

Visa

Symposium participants are kindly suggested to contact the Polish in their countries to check whether an entry visa is required. However, for most countries a visa is not required

If other kind of Visa is required, please contact a local travel agent to organize the trip. Mikrotik will not provide any assistance or invitations for obtaining a visa

Delegate Identification

Admission to meeting sessions and other events will be permitted only to those wearing the official meeting badge.

We reserve the right to refuse registration and admission to any person without assigning any reason

Gifts

Only people who actually attend the MUM presentations are qualified for Free licenses and T-shirts, if offered. Availability is limited, first come/first serve.

Guest Presentations

MikroTik User Meeting (MUM) is a conference on MikroTik RouterOS software and RouterBoard hardware, which takes place in Krakow, Poland at Thu-Fri, Feb 28-29, 2008. See this page for information about the location.

Focus of the user meeting is a comprehensive range of talks about using MikroTik products in various environments and applications. Furthermore, space will be provided for resellers and consultants to put up their own stand or host a discussion table.

This MUM is organized for the tenth time worldwide since January 2006. MikroTik is the organizer of these events, providing the users with an opportunity get together and learn more from each other.

Following the success of prior MUMs, we cordially invite proposals of presentations to the MUM. Presentations are welcome from users of MikroTik software and hardware who wish to share their knowledge and experience of using MikroTik products for various networking needs.

Topics

We are looking for contributions about the following topics.

• Wireless networking
• User authentication and accounting
• Dynamic routing
• Network design
• Bandwidth management and QoS
• Security
• Systems Administration and Networks
• Any other MikroTik related topic

Submitting Contributions

Registration and submission of contributions is via e-mail to support[at]mikrotik.com. For participating in the Call for Papers, you will have to submit a short abstract, as well as a detailed description. To have the presentation at the MUM and qualify for the bonus from MikroTik, you will also need to submit slides for your talk to be put on the wiki page.

Length of the Contributions

The abstract should summarize the planned content of the talk in a precise and succinct way. We do not place a limit on its length. Please include full name(s) and a short description about the presenter(s).

The talks should take no more than 45 minutes, in order to allow some time for questions and for preparing the stage for the following speaker. Shorter presentations are possible, please let us know approximate time you would require

We can accept longer contributions in special cases; we ask for a justification for the longer extent in this case.

We will publish presentation slides only in PDF format and therefore ask you to refrain from using animations.

Contributions are selected based on their content by a program committee. Please understand that we cannot accept all contributions, depending on the number and quality of the submissions.