Hey, idk if was there mentions, but for local com you could maybe try
https://www.scuttlebutt.nz ?

I had presenation in Progressbar about it last week
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RYonvbpb3KoyPjMhtU3bQkNq_I5EKFjMaka4teVEqck/edit?usp=drivesdk

Feel free to ask.


On Apr 30, 2017 6:58 PM, "Freelab" <freelab@???> wrote:

Long time no report from us, but hey, this is Greece; everything takes more
time.

Some of you may still remember that we invited Squat Net to happen in our
humble place this year. I hope it may become reality. Anyway, we keep
beavering out and making our community more visible to the world (
https://network23.org/prosfygika-community in the making).

Meanwhile, mostly thanks to unstoppable Naomi R and some generous
donations, we reached the first milestone assumed for Prosfygika
Neighborhood Network:

1. All users that were previously connected through crumbling and
fragmented cable infrastructure, are now connected via uniform system of
staircase-installed access points. They pay a modest (5 Euro per flat per
month) fee, that is 100% spent on the development of the network and other
infrastructure.

2. All network is integrated into one address space, under single master
router managing internal traffic.

3. External traffic goes through master router load balancing module and
two uplinks provided by local service provider. ISP no more has ablity to
monitor internal traffic.

4, We are now ready to set up our first internal services, to go beyond the
idea of "just accessing internet".
The next milestone I hope to discuss soon in the community, but possibly it
will include more uplinks, extended set of services and shifting towards
mesh topology.

Now, after achieving a little bit, we need your help to achieve more.

1. We have a guest room here in the infrastructure section, ready to host
tech people coming to help. If anybody fancies having a "working holidays"
in Athens, as a resident hacker of a very peculiar anarchist squatting
community, there is an opening. We offer a decent level of cultural shock,
guest room (with an option of separate flat for longer-term guests) and a
whole bunch of problems to solve.
Food is available, but one has to be able to chip in a bit, or run separate
kitchen. Largely, we live in a kind of urban network, staying as much out
of the system as it is possible.

2. Now, when we have our users reconnected, it is time to set up our first
service, which is going to be a public message system. The role model is
Pirate Box, but we need it to be customised and rebranded, so it would
become Prosfygika Public Announcement system. We have TP-Link MR-3020 for
this purpose, with some external storage. If we can find anybody keen and
able to help us setting it up, it would move the whole network onto
different level. So, please give me a shout.

3. A while ago, some of you folks contacted me, offering help in various
forms. I am still in process of recovering my mail archives after the disk
crash (cheap USB pockets kill SSDs!) so if you are still there, contact me
again, please. We now need a lot of hardware for servers and desktops, both
in the infrastructure department and for our users. Anything that can
decently run some linux or Cyanogen will be used wisely. Detailed wishlist
available upon request and soon online. ***Featured*** need is a decent
teleconference camera (we are setting up a teleconference/webinar station).
75 Euro is the cost of the one I found here, but it makes solid dent in our
resources so perhaps some of you has a better solution?

Hope to hear from some of you soon. Stay tuned to our website, as it is
going to be the official communication channel now.

Best,
Petros, Prosfygika, Athens, Greece



--
Freelab Researching freedom since 2012 <https://freelab.libtech.website>

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