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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.

Details: Sarantaporo.gr; 23 September 2015

Sarantaporo.gr NPO in collaboration with the Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (AWMN) and the Free Software / Open Source Company (GFOSS), hold a two-day conference entitled "Athens Wireless Summit 2015" on Saturday 27 September 2015 and Saturday 26 September at Impact Hub Athens (28 Karaiskaki Str., Athens).

The Athens Wireless Summit is a two-day international event with people from academia, the public, open source communities, wireless community networks, educators and local authorities and anyone interested in modern information technologies and communication.

The event includes presentations, discussions, workshops, social events and exhibitions on wireless technologies, the development of network infrastructures and services, highlighting the social nature of community-to-citizen community development, and the development of active people networks around them, examples of cooperation structures that exist or can be developed between these communities in Greece and abroad.

Details: Sarantaporo.gr; 05 May 2015

Sarantaporo.gr NPO participates and invites you to the 3rd Festival of Commons which will take place on May 15-17, 2015 in the building of the Hellenic Archaeological Association of Ermou 134-136 in Thissio. Specifically, on Saturday at 18:00 in Room A a discussion / presentation will be held on "Wireless Community Networks as a Tool for the Development of Rural and Remote Areas. The Example of Sarantaporo.gr". We will be glad to see you there and discuss.

More about the festival here.

View the program in detail here.