[Imc-makerspace] Fwd: Re: [hackerspaces] Guifi.net FFTF (fiber from the farm)

[Stewart Dickson]

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Subject: 	Re: [hackerspaces] Guifi.net FFTF (fiber from the farm)
Date: 	Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:45:30 -0600
From: 	Nitin Gadia <nittyjee at gmail.com>
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So, I guess I don't understand right away...
How is this going to be financed?

This is a fantastic article I read a while ago. It explains how people 
can finance fiber infrastructure from the bottom up.
http://www.newamerica.net/files/HomesWithTails_wu_slater.pdf

This is a long term project that some people I know are interested in 
undertaking. I would love to understand what you all are doing, and 
about your models and successes.

Thanks,
Nitin
Ames, Iowa, USA

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Blackhold <blackholdmailer at gmail.com 
<mailto:blackholdmailer at gmail.com>> wrote:

    Hi guys,
    I would like to show you one of the projects we have here in
    Catalonia, it is called guifi.net <http://guifi.net> and is a open
    an collaborative
    network (we also try that non technical users will be able to install
    his/her wifi antenna). Iniatially it was born as a wifi project (and
    it continues as it atm with about 11300 active nodes) in a rural area
    'cause internet provider decided that put internet in rural areas was
    not competitive.
    Last months we are working on serving fiber optic from the farm (FFTF)
    asking to our government the possibility of pass to put our own fiber
    or simply use the fiber that we have pay with taxs on building a road
    with public money. It is a hard work to do, but possible, pure
    social/tech hack!!! :D

    We have just presented our project to European Digital Schedule[1]. If
    someone is interested to this project I could offer the help you need
    and explain what you want to know about this project.

    The website of the project is obvious, but for whom wants bracketed
    links, here you have[2] :D

    Happy hacking :)

    PS: tetalab I have some days free, maybe I could come to see your
    projects, your super place and we talk about these things :)

    [1]
    http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/dae1009/item-display.cfm?id=5490
    [2] http://guifi.net

    - Blackhold
    http://marsupi.org
    ~> conquerint l'aire, alliberant les ones.
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