DC3 December 2017

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17 participants
20 discussions

Reports on Governance Instruments and their Application to CNs

by Leandro Navarro

Hi, we have two related reports in the netCommons project, both of them cover the topic of "Governance Instruments and their Application to CNs", one produced in July 2017 (D1.3) and another due by end of this year (D1.4). They discuss about the outside organizational model as a "canvas", and the inside organizational and governance models of several community networks, and several organizational patterns and anti-patterns. The last D1.4 document is still under editing so any comment or correction will be very welcome. http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/docs/d13.pdf (July 2017) http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/docs/d14.pdf (December 2017) These documents build on the results of a previous document that describe existing CNs and their organization framework (D1.2): http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/docs/d12.pdf Kind regards, Leandro.

6 years, 4 months

New Cloudy release (Community Cloud software, commons governance, pilot study, economic model)

by Leandro Navarro

Hi, a few days ago we made a new release of the Cloudy community cloud software. The announcement with details is here: https://cloudy.community/news/ Under the hood there is improved support for Docker containers (also docker compose) and also support/integration of IPFS (a P2P web/file service with off-line access). Many new applications can be installed thanks to the docker support, and several are prepared to run just from the click of a button (like Etherpad for group editing, Home Assistant for smart homes, next/own-Cloud for a bunch of web apps for file sharing and communications, instant messaging like Rocket Chat or Riot, Mosquitto for IoT, among others. General info: https://cloudy.community/ and code: https://github.com/Clommunity In addition, we have completed an extended research paper that describes the organizational and governance models of a Community Cloud as Commons, the lessons learned from the last 2 years of a pilot with earlier versions of the Cloudy software in the guifi.net community with about 60 devices deployed, and a socio-economic analysis of the competitiveness of community clouds in comparison with commercial cloud providers. The report is here: http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/cloudy.pdf Thanks to Roger Pueyo, Roger Baig, Agustí, Felix, Shams, Mennan and others who participated in the pilot, the design of the governance model, the development. Kind regards, Leandro.

6 years, 4 months

IETF 101 - March - London - Registration Open

by Jane Coffin

Hi All – Registration is open for IETF 101. There will be a good group coming to this meeting to scope out a BCP in the GAIA group. Arjuna and I are go-chairs and are keen to have your input. Stay-tuned as we plan to have 2 online meetings prior to IETF 101. Info here: IETF 101 London, UK March 17-23, 2018 Co-Hosts: Google and ICANN IETF 101 Information: https://ietf.org/meeting/101/index.html Register online at: https://ietf.org/meeting/register.html 1. Registration 2. Value Added Tax (VAT) 3. Visas & Letters of Invitation 4. Headquarters Hotel 5. Overflow Hotels ============================================================================= 1. Registration EU regulations require that we assess a 20% value added tax (VAT) on your IETF 101 meeting registration. The registration fee does not include VAT; VAT will be added on to the meeting fee and paid over to the tax authorities. A. Early-Bird Registration: USD 700.00, if paid in full prior to 23:59 UTC 2018-03-09 B. After Early-Bird cutoff: USD 875.00 C. Full-time Student Registrations: USD 150.00 (with proper ID) D. One Day Pass Registration: USD 375.00 E. Registration Cancellation: Cutoff for registration cancellation is Monday, 12 March 2018 at UTC 23:59. Cancellations are subject to a 10% (ten percent) cancellation fee if requested by that date and time. F. Online Registration and Payment ends Friday, 16 March, 2018, 17:00 local UK time G. On-site Registration begins on Sunday, 18 March 2017 at 10:00 local UK time. 2. Value Added Tax (VAT) You may be entitled to recoup some or all of the VAT. In addition to a receipt from the IETF, all IETF 101 attendees will receive a VAT compliant invoice from BC&A (VMC), our tax agent. For this meeting, the London VAT of 20% has been added to the Registration Fee. More information is available at: https://www.ietf.org/meeting/101/vat.html 3. Visas & Letters of Invitation Check here to see if you need a visa to attend IETF 101: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. You may apply as early as three months prior to your travel date. Local letters of invitation (LOIs) are being finalized and will be available shortly. We will send an announcement within the next week with instructions. 4. Headquarters Hotel In order to provide IETF attendees with a variety of room class & pricing options, there are several room categories available at the Hilton Metropole. Please review the language carefully to insure that you reserve the room that best meets your needs. Details here: https://ietf.org/meeting/101/hotel.html#metro NOTE: Run of House rooms are displaying in the reservation link as KING HILTON GUESTROOM, KING HILTON EXECUTIVE ROOM, TWIN HILTON GUEST ROOM. If you select these options, you are not guaranteed that room type. Run of House rooms will be decided by the hotel based on availability at check-in. SUPERIOR and DELUXE rooms are guaranteed. Room Rates (including 20% VAT): -Run of House $232.22 USD (single) $248.35 USD (double) -Deluxe(Refurbished) and Superior rooms: $266.09 USD (single) $282.22 (double) USD All rooms Includes in-room high-speed Internet and breakfast. Reservation Cutoff Date: 3 March 2018 Cancel with No Penalty: 7 Days prior to check-in Distance to Meeting Venue: N/A Reservations: http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/L/LONMETW-GIETA-20180309/in… 5. Overflow Hotels a. Hilton London Paddington (Overflow hotel, block of 50 rooms) Room Rate (including 20% VAT): $311.55 (single) USD. Includes in-room high-speed Internet and breakfast. Reservations Cutoff Date: 16 February 2018 Cancel with No Penalty: 21 days prior to check-in Distance to Meeting Venue: 8 minute walk Reservations: https://tinyurl.com/yczxl5sj b. Novotel London Paddington (Overflow hotel, block of 50 rooms) Room Rate (including 20% VAT): $227.12 (single) USD. Includes in-room high-speed Internet and breakfast. Reservations Cutoff Date: 4 March 2018 Cancel with No Penalty: 14 days prior to check-in Distance to Meeting Venue: 12 minute walk Reservations: To get the IETF Group rate, you must use the IETF Group code 'IETF180318’. Reservations can be made by email or telephone. To reserve a room at the Novotel London Paddington, please contact: Nereida Alchapar, Sales and Reservations Manager Email (emails are encrypted to provide security for sensitive data): h6455-re(a)accor.com Telephone: +44 207 266 6040 between the hours of 0900 and 1700 GMT _______________________________________________ Recentattendees mailing list Recentattendees(a)ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/recentattendees Internet Society | www.internetsociety.org Skype: janercoffin Mobile/WhatsApp: +1.202.247.8429

6 years, 4 months

FYI From Broadband to Infrastructure

by dc3＠bob.ma

Just "published" https://rmf.vc/BBToInfrastructure. Bob Frankston http://Frankston.com @BobFrankston

6 years, 4 months

Grant Opportunities

by Jane Coffin

Hi Folks – See this from Microsoft from Melissa Sassi – Melissa is runs coding workshops. Hi all, Yesterday, our Airband team launched our annual call for grants. Feel free to get the word out to local ISP and/or energy access providers solving the digital/energy divide. A few links to help spread the word: A link to our website to apply. Applications are open until Jan 31. You can read more about how to apply, who we fund, and the expected outcomes on the grant fund page. www.microsoft.com/airband A link to my tweet in case you would like to share it with your twitter universe https://twitter.com/mentorafrika/status/940724948531679232 A link to a Microsoft blog post to read more: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/?p=56101 . Internet Society | www.internetsociety.org Skype: janercoffin Mobile/WhatsApp: +1.202.247.8429

6 years, 4 months

IGF 2017 - Hotel Rooms - 9 Available @125 CHF

by Jane Coffin

Hi All – Apologies for this post, but many of you push this data out to other lists. If you know folks traveling to GVA (who need hotel rooms) – we have 9 rooms @125 CHF. Hotel is the Ibis Nations – Accor Hotel. Close to the UN. Ping me if you are interested. “First come – First serve” (random American way of saying – time/date stamp to be used for takers). Best, Jane Internet Society | www.internetsociety.org Skype: janercoffin Mobile/WhatsApp: +1.202.247.8429 From: <dc3-bounces(a)listas.altermundi.net> on behalf of "Michael J. Oghia" <mike.oghia(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity <dc3(a)listas.altermundi.net> Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 4:47 AM To: Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity <dc3(a)listas.altermundi.net> Subject: Re: [DC3] Grant Opportunities There's actually a lot of synergy between our work and Tesla/SpaceX's work (Tesla on the energy side of things, SpaceX on the satellite connectivity plans they have). For instance, if there was a satellite constellation in low-Earth orbit that provided affordable services, which is what SpaceX, OneWeb, and Boing want to do, then it would completely change the landscape (this would be in the early- to mid-2020s). Larry Press provides great updates about developments in this space (pun intended) on CircleID. Regarding batteries, with things like graphene-based batteries that are being developed and other new, more energy efficient battery and energy storage technologies, it's only a matter of time. Whether or not they will be affordable enough to scale is a different matter, but current trends paint an optimistic picture. Of course, I will definitely support more of the advocacy you speak of, Jane. As a non-CN operator, though, I'd love to hear from others about this topic (especially during the DC3 session). -Michael On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Jane Coffin <coffin(a)isoc.org> wrote: Totally. I keep hoping Musk will take on the challenge and come up with some fabulously cheap/whiz-bang solar-powered batteries. Or possibly Jack Ma would put resources into this. Maybe we can push out a challenge at IGF? One can dream. Seriously – yes. Powering Comms has always been a huge issue. Folks are working on this in so many places that we may want to start a link on the DC-3 resources to that alone? (Or is that done already?) Jane Internet Society | www.internetsociety.org Skype: janercoffin Mobile/WhatsApp: +1.202.247.8429 From: <dc3-bounces(a)listas.altermundi.net> on behalf of "Michael J. Oghia" <mike.oghia(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity <dc3(a)listas.altermundi.net> Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 4:23 AM To: Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity <dc3(a)listas.altermundi.net> Subject: Re: [DC3] Grant Opportunities Hi Jane, Thanks for sharing this. It's great to see them focusing on energy providers too. Since many community networks also need to generate their own electrical supply, this could be a good opportunity to leverage that component of community connectivity as well (more on this at the DC3 session next week). Best, -Michael On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Jane Coffin <coffin(a)isoc.org> wrote: Hi Folks – See this from Microsoft from Melissa Sassi – Melissa is runs coding workshops. Hi all, Yesterday, our Airband team launched our annual call for grants. Feel free to get the word out to local ISP and/or energy access providers solving the digital/energy divide. A few links to help spread the word: A link to our website to apply. Applications are open until Jan 31. You can read more about how to apply, who we fund, and the expected outcomes on the grant fund page. www.microsoft.com/airband A link to my tweet in case you would like to share it with your twitter universe https://twitter.com/mentorafrika/status/940724948531679232 A link to a Microsoft blog post to read more: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/?p=56101 . Internet Society | www.internetsociety.org Skype: janercoffin Mobile/WhatsApp: +1.202.247.8429 _______________________________________________ DC3 mailing list DC3(a)listas.altermundi.net https://listas.altermundi.net/mailman/listinfo/dc3 _______________________________________________ DC3 mailing list DC3(a)listas.altermundi.net https://listas.altermundi.net/mailman/listinfo/dc3

6 years, 4 months

Community networks and local access monthly newsletter

by Carlos Rey-Moreno

(apologies for cross-posting) Hi all, If you are interested in keeping up to date with news and information around community networks and local access, we invite you to subscribe to the local access newsletter that the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) will launch in December 2017. The purpose of this newsletter is to provide monthly updates on news and reports, calls for grants, fellowships and awards, and information on events around community networks and local access. There are a great many news items and reports about innovations in low-cost communication technologies, locally owned and managed communication infrastructure systems, case studies on community networks in the global South, updates on regulatory changes (at the global, national and sub-national levels), announcements of funding opportunities, calls for events, and so on, that are shared in different mailing lists, Twitter feeds and other channels. Our aim is to crowdsource this information and bring it all together in one place on a monthly basis, so that we can share it with everyone who wants to stay up to date on this increasingly critical topic. We believe that a better informed community of practitioners could make a significant contribution to the implementation and operation of more resilient locally owned telecommunications infrastructure. If you are interested in receiving the newsletter, please click here: https://crm.apc.org/content/local-access-subscription If you have information on the topic that you would like us to include in the newsletter, please share it with us at localaccess.newsletter(a)apc.org best, carlos -- Carlos Rey-Moreno, PhD “Community access networks: how to connect the next billion to the internet” Project Coordinator Association for Progressive Communications Cel: +27 (0) 76 986 3633 Skype: carlos.reymoreno Twitter: Creym

6 years, 4 months

CN Fellowships for IGF 2017

by Jane Coffin

Hello Colleagues – In coordination with ISOC’s 2018 planning and a key focus on community networks, we are coming to you with a rapid call for CN fellowships. This CN fellowship for IGF 2017 will support air travel and hotel costs only. Key data points: 1. Send an email by 11 December at 1700 UTC to coffin(a)isoc.org and buell(a)isoc.org indicating “why” as a community network manager, operator, researcher, or enabler you would like a fellowship to the IGF 2017. 2. Criteria: -You must have worked with, managed, created, researched, or enabled a community network for more than one year. We consider community radio as part of CNs. -You must not have received an ISOC fellowship to the IGF in the past. 3. There will be a strong focus on women working with CNs, CNs in Indigenous communities, CNs working with refugees, CNs working in disaster and emergency response situations. We know time is short, but we have an opportunity to help some folks get to Geneva for IGF2017 and to introduce you around or have others do the same. Please forward to folks you know. Best, Jane Internet Society | www.internetsociety.org Skype: janercoffin Mobile/WhatsApp: +1.202.247.8429

6 years, 4 months

Request for Speaker at the FOSS session in Geneva

by Glenn McKnight

Greetings Satish Babu the co-organizer has mentioned today that a few of speakers at our session on FOSS will not be in Geneva. We need your help *Workshop #8 Open Source Defending Freedoms in the Digital Future* I know that many of us in this forum are also FOSS advocates and we are seeking if anyone can join this session Details Workshop on Day 3, starting at 11:50 Please let us know if you are free to speak during this session. Thanks Glenn Glenn McKnight NARALO Secretariat mcknight.glenn(a)gmail.com skype gmcknight twitter gmcknight 289-830 6259 .

6 years, 4 months

IGF Registration Extended Until Today - Dec 4

by Jane Coffin

Hi All – 2 Updates: 1. IGF Registration is extended until today – 4 December. On-site registration – not likely and should not be relied on as a fall-back. 2. If you are interested in “Internet & Education” – we have a Community Forum on 6 December, this Wednesday (on-line event) from 1300-1430 UTC. Details are below: https://www.internetsociety.org/events/community-forums/2017/q4/ Best, Jane Internet Society | www.internetsociety.org Skype: janercoffin Mobile/WhatsApp: +1.202.247.8429

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