mesh club. introduction
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Mesh Club 1.0
Make experiment! Be mesh!
The Club’s Mission
To develop civic non-commercial wireless networks and share knowledge and experience for communities.
What is “mesh network”?
– It is decentralized wireless network with dynamic architecture, where every node can have different roles, and the network infrastructure is in its creators possession.
Why does the Falanster deal with it?
– Today Net (i.e. Internet) is very centralized.
– The situation allows to control and censor civic information and communication as by providers (ISP) as by states.
– We understand necessity that the network infrastructure is in users’ ownership.
– It enforces and fosters different communities and keep their freedoms.
The Mesh Club’s 1.0 Aim
– To deploy several mesh networks for theme and local communities needs.
Main Club’s Branches
– Theoretical research
– Practical research
– Social communication
– “Wifi” map
Theoretical research
– Introduction the network (wireless, mesh etc)
– To learn best practices (commotionwireless, freifunk, guifi etc).
– Experience wikification
Practical Research
– Change firmware (tp-link, ubiquity, mikrotik etc)
– Install services (etherpad, piratebox, kiwix, web-server, chat)
– IT-tent
– Mesh network (pilot)
Social communication
– Local communities
– Topic communities
– Gamification for involving people in the mesh process
“Wifi” map
– Who needs and who wants to share wifi
– Add, edit, share the points.
We achieve result when
– Deploy 1-3 networks (3-10 nodes for each)
– Enlist 10-15 active club participators and 2-3 communities.
– Complete “wifi” map
– Structurize experience
– Participate with IT-tent in 1-3 external events
What do we need for it?
• Imagination +
• Routers +
• Server +
• Wire +
• Desire!
How to participate
– Work with hardware+firmware,
– Work with services,
– Work with communities,
– To develop “wifi” map,
– Coordinate the Club,
– Create video plot
Complete this form!
http://goo.gl/forms/m2973L5dWR
= Mesh network
Make experiment! Be mesh!
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Contacts
• http://falanster.by/en/mesh-club
Images source: https://commotionwireless.net