<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Last October, at the Radical Networks Conference in Brooklyn, Brian Hall did <a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/radicalnetworks/videos/102833124" target="_blank">a presentation on NYC Mesh</a>. In the Q&A I asked him to give just one example of a successful community mesh network. Without hesitation he mentioned <a href="http://guifi.net" target="_blank">guifi.net</a> in Barcelona. I had to look it up, I discovered that, while they use mesh, in reality it is something of a hybrid with fiber, nevertheless it is impressive. Now it has also come to the attention of ISOC's development team and its Director of Strategy Jane Coffin, who tipped me yesterday that she, and guifi, were participating in a local workshop to talk about how such things are done. Also that it would be streamed out and could be mirrored. As I type this they are on lunch break, with two sessions - governance and regulation - already done. The first went into some detail as to how guifi is managed, while the second revealed a remarkable <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=7354" target="_blank">eu directive</a> which mandates all kind of infrastructure sharing. Coming up is the third session - implementation, should be good! While there is a fair amount of English spoken, a working knowledge of at least some Spanish will be helpful in following along.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><u></u><div><table style="width:100%;background:#dddddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><tbody><tr><td><span style="display:none!important"> joly posted: "Today Friday June 17 2015 netCommons and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia aka BarcelonaTech are hosting Workshop on community networking infrastructures with the theme Efficient collaboration between government, citizens and enterprises. The worksh" </span><table style="width:100%;padding:10px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0 auto;overflow:hidden"><table style="width:100%;background-color:#fff;text-align:left;max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0 auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><br><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><div style="direction:ltr;margin-top:1em;max-width:560px"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/netcommons" target="_blank"><img style="max-width:100%;margin-bottom:12px;clear:both;float:right;margin-left:1em;padding:4px;background-color:white;border:1px solid #ccc" src="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/guifi_170x255.png" alt="Livestream" border="0"></a>Today <strong>Friday June 17 2015 <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://netcommons.eu/" target="_blank">netCommons</a></strong> and the <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://www.upc.edu/" target="_blank">Polytechnic University of Catalonia</a></strong> aka BarcelonaTech are hosting <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://netcommons.eu/?q=content/workshop-community-networking-infrastructures" target="_blank">Workshop on community networking infrastructures</a></strong> with the theme <strong>Efficient collaboration between government, citizens and enterprises</strong>. The workshop will discuss how they can strengthen ties among these three actors to optimize a specific case of these infrastructures, community networks, with a particular focus on fiber deployment. Sessions will cover 1) governance, 2) regulation, and 3) implementation. The conference has two main objectives: expand knowledge about this type of collaboration and identify specific lines of action to make them more efficient in the future. The event, conducted in English, Catalan, and Spanish, is being streamed live on <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://tv.guifi.net/" target="_blank">guifi tv</a></strong>, and mirrored on the <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/netcommons" target="_blank">Internet Society Livestream Channel</a></strong>.</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><strong>What: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://netcommons.eu/?q=content/workshop-community-networking-infrastructures" target="_blank">Workshop on community networking infrastructures</a><br> Where: Barcelona, Spain<br> When: Friday June 17 2015  9:30am-5pm CEST | 07:30-15:00 UTC | 03:30-11:00 EDT<br> Agenda: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://netcommons.eu/?q=content/workshop-community-networking-infrastructures" target="_blank">http://netcommons.eu/?q=content/workshop-community-networking-infrastructures</a><br> Webcast: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/netcommons" target="_blank">https://livestream.com/internetsociety/netcommons</a><br> Twitter: #netCommons <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/netCommons" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/hashtag/netCommons</a></strong></p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"> </p></div><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#666;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em;padding:0;width:auto;padding-top:1em;padding-bottom:0em;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;padding-left:0"> </p><table style="width:auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:10px"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#fff;border-radius:10em;border:1px solid #11729e;background-color:#2585b2;padding:5px 15px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;margin-left:0;white-space:nowrap" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8555#respond" target="_blank">Comment</a></td><td>   <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8555#comments" target="_blank">See all comments</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width:100%;background-color:#efefef;text-align:left;border-top:1px solid #ddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#efefef"><tbody><tr><td style="border-top:1px solid #f3f3f3;color:#888;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background:#efefef"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 10px 0px"> </p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"> </p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><strong>Permalink</strong></div><br> <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8555" target="_blank">http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8555</a><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><img src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?blog=10787942&post=8555&subd=isoc-ny.org&ref=&email=1&email_o=jetpack&host=jetpack.wordpress.com" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0"></div></div><div><br><br></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div></div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>---------------------------------------------------------------<br><span>Joly MacFie  <span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><a href="tel:218%20565%209365" value="+12185659365" target="_blank">218 565 9365</a></span></span> Skype:punkcast</span><br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>-</div></div></div>
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