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Workshops at the IFF 2016

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 […]

Experiencias con Telefonía Celular Comunitaria

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 […]

Join us at Battle of the Mesh v9!

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, […]

Timeline April-November 2015

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.

Community Networks Reunion in Brasil

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 […]

Se ensancha el backbone

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 […]

Ganamos los Premios Frida 2015!

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.

San Isidro grows with Libre-Mesh

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 […]

Libre-Mesh 15.04 «BigBang» released

We’re happy to announce the first stable release of Libre-Mesh, codenamed “BigBang”, version 15.04 It’s built on top of OpenWrt Barrier Breaker 14.07 final release, and includes: A simple read-only webgui (no auth needed) based on luci-0.12, in addition to the usual LuCI admin interface. BMX6 r2014112401 and BATMAN-Adv 2014.2.0, running on top of linux kernel 3.10.49 LibreMap agent ready to push it’s status to the global map, as soon as you tell the node its GPS coordinates. Public IPv6 […]

En la Bolsa terminaron sus nodos para conectarse

Ayer las vecinas y vecinos de la Bolsa construyeron sus primeros 6 nodos y 12 antenas para conectarse con el enlace que existe en su pueblo. Se juntaron 9 hombres, 7 mujeres y muchos niños para participar en el proceso. A las 10 de la mañana Jesi, Gui e Isa de AlterMundi llegamos a la casa de Clau y Munky para facilitar el taller, y a las 8 de la tarde ya estaban terminando de instalar el primer nodo en […]

Las cumbres no son tan altas!

Cuando hicimos el «enlace de 50Km con la UNC(enlace UNC)»:http://blog.site.altermundi.net/article/completamos-el-enlace-de-50km/ y funcionó mejor de lo esperado, pensamos: ya concretamos nuestra idea más loca, ahora cuál es nuestro próximo horizonte? Entonces nos propusimos saltar las Altas Cumbres y conectar las redes comunitarias de un lado de las sierras con las del otro.