Andrea Zappa

Explanation about the slow grow, the ideas of community and the technical tools of a small Wireless Mesh Network on the Appennino's mountains near Bologna in Italy. We shared connections and knowledge between 50 people, on 3 valleys. This is our website: https://antennine.noblogs.org

Our comunity share the principles of antifascist, antisexism, anticapitalism and antiracism. In our s ecosystem there are different organizations and during the talk I'll try to explain some of the activities. We will talk about the group's political intention, method and why, and how we decide, starting from food autonomy, to organize our communication infrastructure. We will speak about our organization experiments and about the technologies that we use. Small introduction and showcase of Libremesh. LibreMesh is a modular framework for creating OpenWrt-based firmwares for wireless mesh nodes. We don't hide the problems: open issues about our tools and managing. Questions and Answers session.

We will analyze the approach to tecnology (decisional method, mesh network and cloud) of a farming community near Bologna: Campi Aperti. Speaking about: human organization, connectivity, managing of a server, resources and incidents handler, femminism, maintaining and growing in a non-gerarchical organization. Technologies involved: humans, antennas, orchestrator of containers.

Summarize the experience of this last 15 years of a group of farmers, the strong political impact about take care of the near territory, decide what grow and what eat and share this decisions with the consumers in the city, settled a method that is called "shared warranty", garanzia partecipata, for the organic vegetables, refuse the big distribution of the food and how this principles, with also some femminist ideas, can bring us to think in a different way our tech organizations and our tools. In the last 3 years the group Campiaperti and Genuino Clandestino, the italian network of self-managed farmers, started to make questions and solution about tecnologies and started slowly to mantain their services.