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Details: Sarantaporo.gr; 10 January 2016

January 15-17th 2016, Sarantaporo Area, Greece

With the opportunity of the kick-off meeting of the MAZI project in Volos, the Sarantaporo.gr team organizes on 15-17 of January 2016 a 3-day symposium at Sarantaporo area in Greece to guide the MAZI partners and guests in the area and introduce them to this remarkable initiative in network commoning. Together with local actors we engage in discussions about the expansion of the network and its potential role as a common network infrastructure that can support local services of different types.

MAZI (meaning "together" in Greek) is a new EU Horizon2020 project in the CAPS framework, which brings together researchers and activists from various fields around the development of a DIY networking toolkit, and the comparison of its deployment in different pilot studies in Europe.

The Sarantaporo.gr non-profit, in collaboration with local actors and with the support of the CONFINE EU project, Greek FOSS, and TEI of Thessaly, has built in the area of Sarantaporo a modern wireless community network. The network connects 14 villages in the municipality of Elassona to the Internet through a long-distance wireless to the University of Applied Sciences (TEI) of Thessaly, which offers a 1Gbps Internet access.

TAGS: NetCommons, Projects

Details: Sarantaporo.gr; 24 November 2015

Watch the interview of Sarantaporo.gr and the Personal Cinema team on "Double Look" show on Channel 1 of the Greek National Television.

Details: Sarantaporo.gr; 20 November 2015

Listen to an interview by George Klisiaris, a member of the Sarantaporo.gr team, on ERT Larissa's radio about the Sarantaporo.gr NPO’s activity, the European Commission's Guifi.net award and the Crowd-funding Campaign running this period for the production of a documentary "Building Communities as Commons". This is a documentary about the wider Sarantaporo area, where for four years, with the initiative of the Sarantaporo.gr team, a wireless infrastructure is developed for 14 villages and community of locals is formed based on it.

See more information about the campaign here

Details: Sarantaporo.gr; 11 November 2015

Listen to the interview of Lia Kountroubis and Achilleas Vaitsis, members of Sarantaporo.gr NPO, on ERT Larissa radio about the activity of Sarantaporo.gr NPO and the Crowd-funding Campaign that is currently running for the production of a documentary called “Building Communitiesas Commons”. This is a documentary about the wider Sarantaporo area, where for four years, with the initiative of the Sarantaporo.gr team, a wireless infrastructure is developed for 14 villages and community of locals is formed based on it.

See more information about the campaign here.

Details: Sarantaporo.gr; 07 November 2015

Sarantaporo.gr participates in the 8th FOSSCOMM 2015 conference with a presentation that will take place on Sunday 8/11, at 10:30 am in Room 2 of TEI of Athens, regarding its activity for the development of community networks for open internet access in the wider area of Sarantaporo Elassona, making use of open source software and routing protocols. At the same time, the Community Lab Testbed developed in the framework of the FP7 Confine Project for research and experimentation on new technologies, networking protocols and services that can be developed on local community networks will be presented.