MeshNet

Projects
Participants	Becha
Skills	Community building, Networking
Status	Planning
Niche	Community
Purpose	World domination

Each society gets the *net it deserves. 

My ideal future of the "Internet" (governance / society) is PARTICIPATORY ALTRUISM.

http://becha.home.xs4all.nl/hackers-philosophers-utopian-network-dec-2012-becha.pdf

Education

• http://opengarden.net/2013/05/beginners-guide-to-wireless-mesh-networking/

• http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/intro-to-tor-i2p-darknets
  • "This class introduces students to the I2P and Tor Darknets. We cover setting up Tor & I2P, the basics of use, and how to make hidden services. We also go over case examples like Eldo Kim Harvard & the Harvard Bomb Threat, Hector Xavier Monsegur (Sabu)/Jeremy Hammond (sup_g) & LulzSec, Freedom Hosting & Eric Eoin Marques and finally Ross William Ulbricht/“Dread Pirate Roberts” of the SilkRoad, to explain how people have been caught and how it could have been avoided.

• wndw.net Wireless Networking in the Developing World
  • The Book http://wndw.net/book.html

• WiFi for programmers: http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201408#01

• LOTS OF Wireless Networking Resources https://nsrc.org/archives/wireless

• http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/DIY_Mesh_Guide_Download

• Free Space Optics links https://dev.wlan-si.net/wiki/KORUZA

Documentation

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhood_Internet_Service_Provider

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_community_network

• March 2016: IRTF research group “Global Access to the Internet for All (GAIA) draft: “Alternative Network Deployments: Taxonomy, characterization, technologies and architectures”
  • https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments-04
  • BecHa's comments: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/gaia/zEqSIjdWs4c2J-V38kvN4lRutCY
  • Final version: "August 2016" https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7962

• http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-9-alternative-internets/
  • http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-9-alternative-internets/peer-reviewed-papers/enmeshed-lives/
  • http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-9-alternative-internets/peer-reviewed-papers/finding-an-alternate-route-towards-open-eco-cyclical-and-distributed-production/
  • http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-9-alternative-internets/experimental-format/alternative-policies-for-alternative-internets/

• 2018: https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/2018/unleashing-community-networks-innovative-licensing-approaches/

Communication

Mailing Lists

• http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/tmpcommonsnet

• http://etherpad.guifi.net/L2-org

• https://llistes.guifi.net/sympa/info/bub

• https://wlan-si.net/lists/info/development

• https://lists.ffdn.org/wws/info/diy-isp

• http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/unlike-us_listcultures.org

• GAIA...

Individuals

On twitter, August 2014 ‏@taziden @Kaplan_CERTat @Ms_Multicolor @OtvorenaMreza @federationfdn @mitar_m @wlanslovenija @braempje

@MaziZoneEU @deckspace @unmonastery @nethood

• Mahabir, from Nepal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabir_Pun

Twitter, March 2016: @conflictmedia @sifrwahid @pranesh @spideralex @elektra_42

Events

2016: 1-07 May 2016: BattleMesh v9 in Porto (PT) http://battlemesh.org/HomePage

2015:

• August 3-9 Battlemesh v8 @ Maribor, Slovenia http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV8 // #BattleMesh
  • Report: https://sudoroom.org/weaving-together-a-network-of-networks-report-from-battlemesh-v8/
  • Docs: http://battlemesh-test-docs.readthedocs.org/

• Summer school / Wireless Summit -- IN PROGRESS: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mesh2015

• #ReDeCentralize

2014

• 12-18 May 2014, Leipcig http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV7

• 14&15 June 2014, Calafou http://backbone409.calafou.org/

• 31c3, 27-30.12.2014 https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Assembly:DIYISP

2013

• 27-30 December 2013 https://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/wiki/Session:YBTI_Meshnet_Works

• 2-4 October 2013 International Summit for Community Wireless Networks in Berlin http://2013.wirelesssummit.org/

Aspects

Community Mesh Network

• Offering network (and/or) hosting services
• Not Commercial
• Members make the rules

• Categorization: "Alternative Network Deployments: Taxonomy, characterization, technologies and architectures" https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments-04.txt

• Evaluation of mesh routing protocols for wireless community networks http://dsg.ac.upc.edu/eval-mesh-routing-wcn

• http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2h7cdt/killer_app_for_bitcoin_incentivized_meshnets/

• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309291449_Map_of_the_Community_Network_Initiatives_in_Africa

• https://wiki.020wireless.nl

• Detroit https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kz3xyz/detroit-mesh-network & https://www.alliedmedia.org/dctp/story

Community ISP

https://diyisp.org
https://lists.ffdn.org/wws/info/diy-isp

• 2018: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20180111_new_harvard_study_recognizes_community_owned_isps_as_value_leaders/

• April 2016: https://t.co/4U6K3bD3fJ B4RN, internet access for Rural North England https://indico.uknof.org.uk/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=36

• Carsten Agger (Denmark) -- Baobáxia is a community-built project to connect about 200 Brazilian quilombos to assist the interchange and preservation of traditional, community-built culture. (cubaconf.org) https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/connecting_communities/

• November 2015: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/how-a-group-of-neighbors-created-their-own-internet-service/

• December 2014 https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Assembly:DIYISP

• November 2014 RIPE69: Community networking in Scotland: https://ripe69.ripe.net/wp-content/uploads/presentations/20-ripe69.pdf

• November 2014: Armin Medosh is writing a new book, "The Rise of the Network Commons". http://thenextlayer.org/NetworkCommons

• http://pilif.github.io/2014/09/geek-heaven/

• CONFINE project, http://confine-project.eu.
  • This European project studies community networks (which are mesh networks of course) for the future internet. We look at the technological side (mesh protocols etc.) but also the sociological side of community networking.

• April 2014 "making an ISP is really difficult" -- or is it? http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/04/one-big-reason-we-lack-internet-competition-starting-an-isp-is-really-hard/

• Interference talk:

• FOSDEM talk:

• RIPE68 Meeting talk: https://ripe68.ripe.net/presentations/381-diy-isp-ripe68-v4.pdf

• 30c3, Taziden: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5391_-_en_-_saal_6_-_201312291130_-_y_u_no_isp_taking_back_the_net_-_taziden.html

Software

• nodewatcher, software which helps you deploy, maintain, and monitor a community network
  • paper " A Substrate for Growing Your own Community Network" https://www.sharelatex.com/github/repos/wlanslovenija/nodewatcher-paper/builds/latest/output.pdf
  • https://github.com/wlanslovenija/nodewatcher-paper

• http://occupyhere.org/ - tiny self-contained dark net

• GnuNet: gnunet.org

• http://www.muninetworks.org/communitymap

• cheap VM providers around the world, VPS with BGP, and anycast: November 2014: Nat Morris presentation at RIPE69 "Anycast on a shoestring" -- how to run your own global network for 40$ per year!! https://ripe69.ripe.net/wp-content/uploads/presentations/36-Anycast-on-a-shoe-string-RIPE69.pdf

HW

• Green WIFI: A volunteer organization dedicated to the spread of solar powered wireless networking equipment. http://www.greenwifi.org

• Open-mesh.com: A vender of low-cost wireless mesh networking devices. http://www.open-mesh.com/

Legal

• Intermediary liability rules -- by European Court of Justice (ECJ)
  • https://edgeryders.eu/en/lote4/stewardship-and-policy-lote4-post-reflection // http://www.husovec.eu/2014/10/munich-court-asks-cjeu-about.html

Decentralization

• https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet

• EDN (Echt Dezentrales Netz - real decentralized network (Demos et al) https://wiki.c3d2.de/Echt_Dezentrales_Netz/en
  • documenting and analyzing over 70 Privacy Software Projects.
  • be to assemble detailed API descriptions of the projects and its modules
  • to identify and highlight Interoperability between projects for collaboration or sharing code.

• 2017
  • http://theconversation.com/diy-networking-the-path-to-a-more-democratic-internet-67216
  • http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7123/5661
  • https://theconversation.com/how-to-build-a-more-organic-internet-and-stand-up-to-corporations-70815
  • https://blog.cozycloud.cc/post/2017/02/10/Building-a-Decentralized-Internet-movement-at-FOSDEM?lang=en

Funding

• https://prototypefund.de/2016/10/25/1022/
• https://www.hackershelpinghackers.com/seed-funding/
• Yearly: Community Projects Fund by RIPE NCC : https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf

Grants

2019: https://www.apc.org/en/35436

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-819_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/fi-ppp-phase-3

• General:
  • https://www.sidnfonds.nl/ & checker: https://www.sidnfonds.nl/assets/pdf/SIDN_fonds_Quickscan_versie_0804.pdf
  • http://techfund.comcast.com/
  • https://nlnet.nl/foundation/can_do.html
  • DNSSEC https://nlnet.nl/dnssec/
  • Standards in real-time communication https://nlnet.nl/realtime/
  • http://isif.asia
  • https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2015/10/23/mozilla-launches-open-source-support-program/
  • "EU150m ($165m) journalism fund called the Digital News Initiative, funded by everyone's favorite news service, Google. (link?)

• (2016) http://isif.asia/grant
• (past deadline for 2017, but...) www.cittadellarte.it/unidee

Fellowships

• Support for students/reseaerchers to attend a RIPE meeting: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/raci
• https://citizenlab.org/2016/02/2016-citizen-lab-fellowship-opportunities/

• JAPAN : http://www.iij-ii.co.jp/en/lab/internship/index.html

Organisations/Networks

• Guify
  • http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/crowds-guifi-en.pdf
  • http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/crowds-guifi-es.pdf
  • http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/crowds-guifi-ca.pdf
• Hyperborea
• FNF
• https://wlan-si.net/en/ wlan slovenija
• https://satnogs.org/ (Athens)
  • fosdem talk: http://satnogs.github.io/satnogs-intro
• http://mazizone.eu Researching a DIY networking toolkit for location-based collective awareness. Mazi is an EU H2020 CAPS project starting on Jan 1st, 2016.

Social Media

• https://quitter.se/main/public

(other decentralisation of social media projects...)

• See: UnlikeUs conference, by Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam

Related TechInc Projects

• http://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/P2pbgpsec

• http://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Internet_Governance_and_hackers

• http://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Wireless-amsterdam-meetup

• http://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Leiden-Wifi

• http://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/RoofTopNetwork

• http://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Pledges/Wifi_Link_Leiden

• https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Privacy_Software_Workshop_Series

Becha's article with many links

http://becha.home.xs4all.nl/hackers-philosophers-utopian-network-dec-2012-becha.pdf

Use Cases

Refugees

• https://github.com/RefugeeHotspot/RefugeeHotspot
  • contact: Shane Kerr <shane@time-travellers.org>

• https://daedalus.libtech.website
  • contact: FreeLab <freelab@riseup.net>

• Also related to refugees, but for coding:
  • There's a group in 🇩🇰 & 🇳🇱 helping to train refugees as web developers! If you're in the area, here's how to help: http://hackyourfuture.net

• & in general http://www.appropedia.org/Appropriate_technology_for_refugees

• http://codefor.de/digitalrefugeelabs

Disaster Recovery Communications

• http://nsrc.org
• http://www.appropedia.org/Humanitarian_engineering
• https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/
• IEEE global humanitarian technology conference is a good venue to look at for the latest research/deployment experience papers: http://sites.ieee.org/ghtc/event-2016/call-for-papers-2016/
  • http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections-closed/mission-critical-public-safety-communications-architectures-enabling-technologies-future-applications/
  • a decent survey paper: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/87438/5/Survey_of_wireless_communication_technologies_for_public_safety.pdf
• https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/gaia/current/msg01978.html
• resilient networks design and modeling http://www.rndm.pl/2017/cfp.html
• Survey of wireless communication technologies for public safety by Gianmarco Baldini, Fabrizio Vergari, Stan Karanasios, David Allen
  • http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/87438/5/Survey_of_wireless_communication_technologies_for_public_safety.pdf [eprints.whiterose.ac.uk]
• Solutions That Are Saving Lives in Humanitarian Response by Amanda Barcock http://www.aidforum.org/disaster-relief/top-solutions-that-are-saving-lives-in-humanitarian-response
• Focus Group on Disaster Relief Systems, Network Resilience and Recovery http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/drnrr/Pages/default.aspx
• Proceedings of GHTC 2016 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=7837794
• Mozilla Off-The-Grid Challenge https://wirelesschallenge.mozilla.org/#challenge-1
• IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) http://sites.ieee.org/ghtc/
• GSMA Disaster Response Innovation Fund https://gsma-disaster-response.forms.fm/gsma-disaster-response-innovation-fund
• UN Foundation: Disaster Relief Communications http://www.unfoundation.org/what-we-do/legacy-of-impact/technology/disaster-relief-comms.html
• CISCO https://www.networkworld.com/article/2942835/cisco-subnet/how-cisco-brings-communications-to-disaster-relief-efforts.html
• Microsoft https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/philanthropies/humanitarian-action
• https://www.google.org/our-work/crisis-response/
• FEMA https://www.fema.gov/tech-sector [www.fema.gov]
• "Disaster-resilient communication networks: Principles and best practices" by A. Mauthe, D. Hutchison, E. Cetinkaya, I. Ganchev, J. Rak, J. Sterbenz, M. Gunkel, P. Smith, T. Gomes available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309495874_Disaster-resilient_communication_networks_Principles_and_best_practices
• http://digital-humanitarians.com/
• The RECODIS Cost Action (Resilient communication services protecting end-user applications from disaster-based failures) has a list of relevant publications: http://www.cost-recodis.eu/index.php/publications

Rural Networks

• Telecommunications in Rural or Non-Metropolitan Areas (1996) http://www.alansondheim.org/mike.txt

• https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/05/technology/caucuses-mountains-internet.html

Public Service

• https://publicspaces.net/
• 2019
  • https://publicspaces.net/2019/01/27/development-roadmap/

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/public-service-internet

Misc Links

Other New Internet Technologies

• https://gigaom.com/2014/05/07/why-gigaom-thinks-its-time-to-reinvent-the-internet/

• https://gigaom.com/2014/05/07/reinventing-the-internet-how-do-we-build-a-better-network/

• Named Data Networks http://named-data.net

• ... & SDN (Software Defined Networks...)

In the media

• 2018: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/01/punk-rock-internet-diy-rebels-working-replace-tech-giants-snoopers-charter

• FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/decentralised_internet_and_privacy/

• 2018: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3np4a/new-municipal-broadband-map

• 2018: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/05/technology/caucuses-mountains-internet.html

• 2017, SlashDot https://ask.slashdot.org/story/17/04/29/2134234/ask-slashdot-could-we-build-a-global-wireless-mesh-network

• https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/09/a-decentralized-web-would-give-power-back-to-the-people-online/

• MOVE TO ANOTHER PLACE: http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-9-alternative-internets/peer-reviewed-papers/enmeshed-lives/

• November 2016: https://theconversation.com/diy-networking-the-path-to-a-more-democratic-internet-67216

• Alternative Internet(s) http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/2014/11/24/alternative-internets-what-are-they-and-do-they-have-a-future/

• http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/10/10/weekend-read-the-imminent-decentralized-computing-revolution/

• When the Internet dies, it's the meshenet that survives http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229653.700#.VDT_oyuSy9M

• http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/the-promise-of-an-alternative-internet/372501/

• http://phys.org/news/2014-05-decentralized-networks-democracy.html

• 8 May 2014 http://www.dailydot.com/technology/decentralized-internet-future/

• March 2014: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/toward-a-network-commons-building-an-internet-for-and-by-the-people

• (social movement, mentioning "mesh" in their manifesto) : https://medium.com/p/6438d463bcc2 (World Open Hash Design)

• November 2013: Cook Report: http://www.cookreport.com/newsletter-sp-542240406/current-issues/282-cook-report-for-november-december-2013 _The Global Free Network Movement_

• http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929294.500-meshnet-activists-rebuilding-the-internet-from-scratch.html#.Ugn9zVO57zf

• http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/mesh-internet-privacy-nsa-isp

• http://www.dailydot.com/politics/greek-off-the-grid-internet-mesh/

• http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1m17bx/what_do_you_think_are_citizenrun_mesh_networks/

• http://www.diplomacy.edu/blog/are-citizen-run-mesh-networks-key-open-internet-probably-not-part-1

• The Darkest Place on the Internet Isn’t Just for Criminals // SpyNet // http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/10/thompson/

• http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/12/the-mission-to-decentralize-the-internet.html

• http://www.wired.com/opinion/2014/01/its-time-to-take-mesh-networks-seriously-and-not-just-for-the-reasons-you-think/

• Personal Mast by the farmer ;-) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3200291/Farmer-sick-poor-internet-signal-built-DIY-mast.html

• 22 February 2016 http://www.dimoso.com/dig-your-own-broadband/ B4RN – Broadband 4 the rural north http://b4rn.org.uk/ https://vimeo.com/130634706

• Amin Medosh, Hybrid Cities conference, University of Athens, 17.09.2015: "The network commons is one among a number of other initiatives that propose alternative future developments... " http://www.arminmedosch.at/content/cities-sun-urban-revolutions-and-network-commons

• Primavera De Filippi (2015). Wireless Community Networks: Towards a Public Policy for the Network Commons, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2725434

• EXPANDING THE INTERNET COMMONS: THE SUBVERSIVE POTENTIAL OF WIRELESS COMMUNITY NETWORKS, by Primavera De Filippi[1] and Félix Tréguer[2]

http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-6-disruption-and-the-law/peer-reviewed-articles/expanding-the-internet-commons-the-subversive-potential-of-wireless-community-networks/

Dump of Links, 2014

• http://nethood.org/links.html (dump below, 24-11-2014)

Technology 
Tidepools: http://tidepools.co by Jonathan Baldwin. 
PirateBox: http://www.piratebox.cc by David Darts. 
LibraryBox: http://librarybox.us/ by Jason Griffey. 
Occupy.here: http://www.occupyhere.org by Dan Phiffer. 
guifi.net: http://www.guifi.net 
freifunk.net: http://www.freifunk.net 
Commotion: https://commotionwireless.net/ 
subnodes: http://subnod.es/ 

Art and design 
Alternet: http://www.sarahtgold.co.uk/the-alternet by Sarah T Gold. 
Invisible islands: http://invisibleislands.org/ by Sebastien Pierre. 
Can you hear me?: http://can-you-hear-me.de/web/ 
Deaddrops: http://www.deaddrops.com by Aram Bartholl. 
Yellow chair stories: http://superflux.in/work/yellowchair-stories by Anab Jain. 
Txtualhealing: http://www.txtualhealing.com/ by Paul Notzold. 
Stupidforum: http://stupidforum.com by Miltos Manetas. 

Neighborhoods/Case studies/Stories 
RedHook WiFi: http://rhicenter.org/redhookwifi/ (see also, OTI, interview, thesis, news) 
Can offline wireless move from protest tools to news? by Susan E. McGregor 
Making Internet Local by Adam Rothstein 
My week with PirateBox by Jeffrey Andreoni 

Related events 
Eyebeam Off-The-Grid Exhibition, LittleNets, September 2014. 
Dagstuhl seminar, Do-it-yourself Networking: an Interdisciplinary Approach (report) 
3rd EINS Summer school, From Smart Cities to Engaged Citizens (Michael Smyth, Mark Gaved, and Andreas Unteidig run a workshop combining DIY networking with urban interaction design; 
check draft documents and keep in touch    for the upcoming e-book!) 
International workshop, The alternative Internet(s) - state of the art and the possible future, London School of Economics (LSE), September 15-16th, 2014.  
The UrbanIxD Symposium, Interactions in hybrid urban space: the UrbanIxD exhibition, Venice, September 24-25th, 2014. 
Interdisciplinary symposium, Sharing experiences of self-organization, Thessaloniki, October 10th 2014.

Research and/or action communities 
INURA: http://inura.org 
Community informatics: e-mail list 
unMonastery: http://unmonastery.org/ 
Research projects 
EINS: http://internet-science.eu/ (EU) 
COMPARE: http://compare-network.net/ (EU) 
CONFINE: http://confine-project.eu/ (EU) 
Urban Interaction Design: http://urbanixd.eu/ (EU) 
P2PValue: http://p2pvalue.eu/ (EU) 
Community Wireless Infrastructure Research Project: http://www.cwirp.org/ (Canada) 
Urban Informatics: http://www.urbaninformatics.net/blog/ (Australia) 

Blogs 
We make money not art: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/ 
Pasta&Vinegar: http://liftlab.com/think/nova 
The Mobile City: http://www.themobilecity.nl 
BodySpaceSociety: http://www.bodyspacesociety.eu/ 
Place matters: http://blog.placematters.org/