MeshNet

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

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 http://nsrc.org/wireless.html

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

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

Communication

Community Mesh Network 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

Individuals

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

Events

2015:

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

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/

Grants!

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

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

Aspects

Community ISP

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

• 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:

• Taziden:

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

Software

• nodewatcher, software which helps you deploy, maintain, and monitor a community network

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

• GnuNet: gnunet.org

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

Organisations/Networks

• Guify
• Hyperborea...
• FNF
• wlan slovenija

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

Misc Links

In the media

• 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

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

• 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

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

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

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

• 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/

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

• William' presentation at RIPE69 about Community Wireless Mesh networks 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

• 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.

• 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/