21 Oct
2016
21 Oct
'16
12:38 a.m.
On 10/20/2016 07:37 PM, Leandro Navarro wrote:
Contrary to my personal values, but I'd prefer to
define the list as
essential/main features that describe existing community networks
out there and let the communities learn, decide, evolve, improve,
avoiding us having a restrictive characterisation. Of course, the
definition should effectively delimit those that are clearly not CN,
but being respectful to diversity and local choices.
Perhaps ideas like this would fit into section 4, as the promotion,
adoption and development of FOSS and open hw solutions by industry,
developers and communities would be very beneficial to all CNs.
As much as it pains me I must agree with Leandro here. The biggest
community networks make extensive use of closed-source software and the
situation is much worse in relation to hardware.
I've moved this item to section 4 as Leandro suggested.
Hopefully at some point in the future, free/open software and hardware
initiatives will be successful enough for community networks to adopt as
their standard.
I remember in our first latin-american Community Networks Manifesto
there was a section on collective strategies. This sort of "best
practices" were incorporated there, not as characterization but as
shared goals.
I believe the situation is similar on the "security and privacy" topic.
It may be a goal, but it's not a characterization of most existing CNs.
Maybe we could also move this point to section 4?
Maybe we need another section for this ideas/concepts/strategies?
Cheers!
Nico