+100 2011/5/9 Pablo Castellano <[email protected]>
> Dear EFF. > > I'm writing you in the name of Guifi.net. > We have seen your post about the Open Wireless Movement[0] and we would > like to introduce to you our project in the case you don't know it yet > and manifest our wish to collaborate with you in the future of that > project since we have common goals. > > Guifi.net[1][2][3] is an Open, Free (as in free speech) and Neutral > telecommunications network. It was born in 2004 in a small country > called Grub in Catalonia, Spain. Its nodes are mainly placed in > Catalonia but its taking more importance in other parts of Spain and > more small work groups are appearing, which we help to grow. Every > person or administration is responsible of its own tram of network. > > Nowadays we're proud to say we are the biggest wireless network in the > world, having more than 12,000 nodes. Guifi.net have won several prizes > and some years ago the Guifi.net Foundation was founded. It gives legal > support and watches over the principles of creating a public > telecommunications network. > > You can have a look to the map of nodes: World[4], Iberian Peninsula[5], > Catalonia[6] and Castellón[7], for example. You can zoom in the map and > see that every point is a node and every line is a link. The node color > depends on the status of the node and this web interface helps users to > administrate them. > > Guifi.net has not stopped with the wireless technology. Now we count > with optical fiber links too by mean of deals with public administration > and by the people that have helped to install it with their own hands. > We call it FFTF (Fiber From The Farm) since it initially happened in > Gurb, where there are farms :-). Spain is well connected by optical > fiber, for example almost every highway has it below the ground. In the > most of the cases the capacity that allows fiber is very much thrown > away as it's only used for displaying messages in the middle of the > highway panels or sending the photos of the cars exceeding the speed > limit taken by radars in order to fine them... > In this case our plans are introducing the project to the public > administration and making them understand our open model to let us use > the communication resources paid and built with public money. > > An important point to have into account is that the network is kept > open, free and neutral by its principles thanks to the XOLN Commons > license. Unfortunately we haven't translated it to English yet. We have > versions available in Spanish[8] and Catalan[9]. > > Guifi.net is part of the Open Spectrum Alliance[10]. Guifi.net is also > part of the CATNIX Internet exchange point and has peering agreements > with other operators. Guifi.net Foundation is recognized as a > telecommunications operator. Some people (very few at the moment) is > taking advantage of the 1Gbps symmetric connection contracted at cost > price. > > I could continue writing you a lot more about Guifi.net but I think this > is enough for an introduction. You can find two presentations in English > here. One of them was made for the International Summit for Community > Wireless Networks (ISCWN 2007)[12]. The second one[13] was made for the > European Commission in Brussels and was presented by Ramon Roca, who is > the president of the Guifi.net Foundation. > > We hope you find our project interesting. We are eager to hear about you > and begin working together. > Feel free to contact me as a bridge to Guifi.net. > > Sincerely, Pablo. > > [0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/open-wireless-movement > [1] https://guifi.net > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifi.net > [3] http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifi.net > [4] http://guifi.net/en/guifi_zones > [5] http://guifi.net/en/IberianPeninsula > [6] http://guifi.net/en/Catalunya > [7] http://guifi.net/en/castello > [8] https://guifi.net/es/ProcomunXOLN > [9] https://guifi.net/ca/CXOLN > [10] http://www.openspectrum.eu > [11] http://www.catnix.net/en/membres/ > [12] http://en.wiki.guifi.net/wiki/File:ISCWN2007.odp > [13] http://en.wiki.guifi.net/wiki/File:Guifi.net-DA2020.odp > > _______________________________________________ > guifi-usuaris mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.guifi.net/listinfo/guifi-usuaris >
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