Buenisimo Pablo! Van a flipar con tu resumen!
2011/5/9 Estanis Sarquella <[email protected]>: > +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 > > > _______________________________________________ > guifi-usuaris mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.guifi.net/listinfo/guifi-usuaris > > -- Miquel Martos _______________________________________________ guifi-usuaris mailing list [email protected] https://lists.guifi.net/listinfo/guifi-usuaris
