ExarcheiaNet Libremesh Workshop

external link	Starts	Organizer
	Tue 13 Jun 2017 19:00
	Ends	Event Owner
	Tue 13 Jun 2017 22:00	User:Comzeradd

Building a wireless community network at the neighbourhood level

In this workshop we will discuss in detail how to build a small scale community network, like Exarcheia Net, using libremesh.

Libremesh is a FLOSS firmware for community networks that aims to make it easy to deploy mesh networks and choose among a wide variety of routing protocols according to the environment. The same community has received support to build their own open router, the Librerouter. See http://libremesh.org

Exarcheia Net is a new (wireless) Community Network (CN), which was born out of a very concrete and immediate need, the provision of Internet connectivity to the numerous refugee squats that are found in this special neighbourhood in Athens.

But the objectives of Exarcheia Net go beyond providing Internet connectivity to these places and include the following:

- novel grassroots institutions like cooperative, non-profits, associations for facilitating sharing of Internet access among groups of people

- piloting and prototyping a new type of neighbourhood/district-level community network that includes physical spaces and regular face-to-face meetings for governance, training and engaging people, cultural activities, etc

- demystification of technology and emancipation of citizens in building and operating their own ICT infrastructures