Links

Links to similar networks and akin groups/organizations elsewhere.

Networks

​freifunk.net

Freifunk (German for Free Radio) is a system and movement for creating wireless mesh networks.

​FunkFeuer

FunkFeuer is a free, experimental network in Vienna, Graz, in parts of Weinviertel (NÖ) and Bad Ischl. It is build and maintained by computer enthusiasts.

​ninux.org

ninux.org is a Wireless Network Community in Rome (Italy). Our goal is the creation and expansion of a free and open mesh network, for experimental purposes.

​guifi.net

guifi.net is a telecommunications network, is open, free and neutral because is built through a peer to peer agreement where everyone can join the network by providing his connection, and therefore, extending the network and gaining connectivity to all.

​Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network

Started in 2002 in Athens Greece, AWMN is a social initiative – project, taking advantage of new, state of the art wireless technologies, to connect people and services.

​panOULU

panOULU (public access network OULU) network provides in its coverage area wireless broadband Internet access to everybody.

​CRCnet

The CRCnet Project has built a platform to support the deployment of widescale rural wireless networks.

​MontevideoLibre

Open network in Montevideo.

Technology

​OpenWrt

OpenWrt is a Linux distribution for embedded devices.

​Village Telco

Village Telco is an initiative to assemble/develop the cheapest, easiest to setup, easiest to manage, scalable, Open Source, standards-based, wireless local do-it-yourself telephone company toolkit in the world. The goal of the project is to render local telephony in developing countries to be so cheap as to be virtually free.

​Wireless Networking in the Developing World

Wireless Networking in the Developing World is a free book about designing, implementing, and maintaining low-cost wireless networks.

​EkoWiki

The site contains a collection of documents (HOWTOs) on Linux, USB gadgets, notebooks, hardware, routers, OpenWrt, and other interesting things. In Polish.

​Open Networks Interoperability

A wiki for open networks interoperability and cooperation.

​FabFi

FabFi is an open-source, FabLab-grown system using common building materials and off-the-shelf electronics to transmit wireless ethernet signals across distances of up to several miles. With Fabfi, communities can build their own wireless networks to gain high-speed internet connectivity.

​LifeNet

LifeNet is free open source software, which enables consumer-devices like laptops, android phones and battery-powered routers to instantly form an ad hoc WiFi network without any infrastructure like towers / base stations. It is ideal for providing connectivity in areas where communication infrastructure is destroyed or does not exist.

Other

​HellasWiFi

The main goal of HellasWiFi is to present the greek wireless communities movement and share some elements and news of wireless community networking with other people around the globe.

​The Free Network Foundation

An organization committed to the tenets of free information, free culture, and free society.