In abril 9 of 2010, four membres of Guifi.net participated in a:

     RIPE NCC LIR Training Course  (download material)

 I  asked them if it was possible to record the training class, and... here we go:

 1st part: (direct download in .webm format)

Here is the presentation I gave at the Open plenary session at the International Summit for Community Networks 2.010. It was about empowering Wireless Communities to scale and being sustainable.

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Wifi has been demonstrating during the past 25 years how usefull is the free spectrum in developing the information society.
Read the full press release at openspectrum.eu (angles)

We have created the twitter account for a guifi: http://twitter.com/guifinet

also you can become a fan on facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/guifi/186123775707

we encourage everybody to follow us on twitter and become a fan on facebook. We will try to tweet the most relevant info of the day, specially total amount of fully working nodes.

The Secretary for Telecommunications and Information Society and president of the CATNIX strategic committee, Mr. Jordi Bosch, and the president of Guifi.net Fundation, Ramon Roca, have signed an agreement to incorporate the guifi.net to the CATNIX.

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Ál Cano performed a speech about Free Wireless Networks explaining about guifi.net, followed by a Free Web 2.0 speech, at the 4th Inclusiva-net Meeting: P2P Networks and Processes, Medialab-prado, Madrid, July 2009. Although the speech was in Spanish, had simultaneous translation to English, and the recording is available here:

Nov. 27-29: Our colleagues from Ninux will host a meeting with many community wireless from Europe in Rome.

http://wiki.ninux.org/NinuxDay2009en

During my tour in Asia, after the WITFOR in Vietnam, last week was the time for visiting Bangalore in India and review the projeect there. In short, the idea begins by providing bandwith to the Telnek centre, which is at the Magadi area. Although is does not look very difficult: Magadi is not far from the city and the landscape in the area is very much flat, there is still some challenges: The distance is about 20 kms, and there is a need for finding some partnerships on strategic roofs to make this happen.

The Open Spectrum Alliance is a coalition of companies, organizations, and individuals working to unlock the potential benefits of bandwidth for all.
Current methods of spectrum regulation are based upon the assumption of scarcity reflecting the technologies of the early 20th Century. "Smart" radio technologies support far more efficient and productive methods of spectrum management.
The Open Spectrum Alliance is united by the goal of realizing the potential social and economic benefits of this underutilized natural resource by promoting innovative public policies

Sometimes people think that guifi.net is rare. But isn't because of being a strange exception, there are causes which can be explained, not only about innovative technologies, also because enabling new business models, more open, efficient & fair, because provides new opportunities, and all of this providing sustainability.

This short presentation intends to describe the new business models created by deploying open & neutral networks at the last mile based on the guifi.net experience and explains why keeps growing while other business models are failing because of remaining digital divide.

It seems that the same security arguments that lead to unjustified and threatening law proposals to civil rights since 9/11 is now used to approve

more laws that, in the name of "our security" (not homeland security necessarily), will widen the already open door to our privacy.