Hacia el final de Enero 2016, estuve 10 días conociendo a la gente maravillosa de la Cooperativa Maria Luisa Ortiz, en el pueblito de Mulukuku, Nicaragua. Compartimos una semana intensiva de capacitación de Red Comunitaria estilo AlterMundi, a fin de que aprendieran a montar todo con sus propias manos. La premisa desde el primer día fue que mi papel era facilitar el aprendizaje, y no montar ningún equipo yo mismo. El objetivo principal no era tener una red andando, sino […]
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Gui and Isa were representing AlterMundi at the Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia, Spain. In 2 sessions we shared our experiences from Quintana Libre, the beginnings of Delta Libre and the Fumaça Project in Brasil. Many people asked us about building a network in other parts of the world like Nigeria, Colombia and Cuba. The first session was called Autonomous Wireless and GSM Networks We invited Gio from Italia and people from guifi.net, to share the experiences of building mesh […]
Hace un par de semanas, el martes 19 de enero de 2016, organizamos junto con Bruno de Nuvem.tk un workshop de GSM (telefonía celular) en Casa Nuvem, Rio de Janeiro. Empezamos con una ronda de presentaciones, donde quedó claro que la convocatoria había juntado un grupo muy interesante: un par de personas de Nuevas Fronteras del Control, un activista de Fight for the Future, otro de Tactical Tech, varias de Espectro Livre / Radio Livre, y gente de la Casa […]
The Wireless Battle of the Mesh is an event that aims to bring together people from across the globe to test the performance of different routing protocols for ad-hoc networks, like Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N, BMX, OLSR, and 802.11s. Many developers and community networkers will join the event to hack, test, discuss, explain and learn. If you are interested in dynamic routing protocols or wireless community networks you can’t miss this event! The BattleMesh is free of charge and open for all, […]
This year we received funding from 3 different sources: «LACNIC’s FRIDA Award»:/article/ganamos-los-premios-frida-2015/, a «SEED Grant by the Open Technology Institute»:/article/community-technology-seed-grant/, and a «Flash Grant from the Shuttleworth Foundation»:/article/shuttleworth-flash-grant/.
Back in March, we outlined a roadmap with the activities we wanted to carry out along the year, and by combining the grants we managed to exceed our expectations! So here’s a quick retrospective on what was accomplished.
The meeting was in Visconde de Mauá, in a house surrounded by beautiful nature called Nuvem – Estação Rural de Arte e Tecnología. A rural hack lab where various people from different countries traveled to meet each other. What all these groups had in common is their work in community based information technologies in terms of WiFi networks and GSM networks all over the world.AlterMundi was taking part in this meeting, and got the chance to see how the FumaçaOnline […]
Tras una resolución de Directorio que aprueba la exoneración de los cargos asociados, el día 22 de Septiembre de 2015, LACNIC asignó a AlterMundi el «número de sistema autónomo AS264607(info en LACNIC)»:http://rdap.lacnic.net/rdap-web/autnum?key=264607.
Back in April/2015 we were awarded a Community Technology SEED Grant, funded mainly via the Open Technology Institute and with support from Allied Media Projects and the Detroit Community Technology Project All in all, it has been a great experience, since Ryan, Andy and Diana were always available to help us meet the milestones we proposed at the beginning, and demanding nothing besides minimal paperwork. The grant explicitly required that all grantees (11 in total, including us) release under open […]
Gracias al aporte recibido a partir del proyecto de profundización presentado para los premios FRIDA 2015 y otros recursos locales hemos conseguido ampliar considerablemente la capacidad de la red troncal que comunica las redes comunitarias de los valles de Paravachasca y Traslasierra con la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Antes de esta intervención, la capacidad real del enlace con la UNC rondaba los 30Mbps. Considerando que en horarios pico las redes estaban consumiendo alrededor de 20Mbps, probablemente habríamos terminado el año […]
Estamos planeando un encuentro multidisciplinario para el verano, y para ir ensayando vamos a empezar con una hackaton de redes libres durante las primeras 2 semanas de septiembre. Vamos a conectar comunidades alejadas mediante radioenlaces (50km de punto a punto) junto con la gente local. Y mediante talleres de apropiación tecnológica, vincular escuelas, universidades, y otras ONGs, tejiendo una red principalmente social, que a su vez construye una red digital. Desde aquel primer QuintanaCamp en febrero de 2012, en el […]
Queremos agradecerles a todas las personas y grupos de redes comunitarias alrededor del mundo que nos apoyaron difundiendo «nuestro proyecto(ver proyecto en FRIDA)»:http://programafrida.net/projects/projects/view/869 durante el tiempo que duraron los «Premios Frida 2015(sitio FRIDA)»:http://programafrida.net/awards.
Last weekend, we held a 20-node workshop in San Isidro, a small town next to Quintana. Almost 30 people attended (with women and men in equal proportion, including some children) and collaboratively built the antennas, prepared the weatherproof enclosures, painted the poles, and soldered DIY RF pigtails, among other activities. After the initial forming of groups and task assignment, everyone was quickly up to speed, and after a few hours it was clear that the workshop would finish sooner than […]
