BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:24422@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:Grassroots Communication Infrastructures: Why? What? How? (thanks z elf) DTSTAMP:20260701T205639Z DTSTART:20260703T150000Z DTEND:20260703T160000Z DESCRIPTION:Running your own communications infrastructure has obvious bene fits.  We live in\na world of increasing digital censorship\, and are rare ly completely in charge of\nour communications.  Even if we choose to use "better" alternatives to WhatsApp\,\nInstagram\, etc.\, we are still alway s completely reliant on the one underlying\nnetwork\, i.e. "The Internet".  With the push of a button\, "The Internet" may all\nof a sudden become u navailable.  In places with oppressive regimes\, this has not\nbeen uncomm on.  In the current political climate\, it would not be surprising if\nany political system all of a sudden became repressive.\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore the possibilities for setting up a\ndecentralized off gri d communications system using the Reticulum communication\nprotocol stack.  We choose to focus on Reticulum because it is designed for\nheterogeneou s networks built from various cheap devices\, to be deployed in a\nbottom up way by small communities.  More information is found here:\nhttps://ret iculum.community/ [https://reticulum.community/]\n\nThe mesh network stack runs on various platforms.  You can run it on your\ndesktop\, your home s erver\, your mobile phone.  In the workshop\, we will focus on\nusing Reti culum on three scales: (1) as a Bluetooth network for mobile phones\nmessa ging in small groups\; (2) building some standalone nodes that you we can\ ndeploy around a city to build out an autonomous communication infrastruct ure\;\n(3) and we will also look into connecting cities with more long-ran ge radio\nlinks.\n  URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/grassroots-communication-infrastructure s-why-what-how-thanks-zelf GEO:52.3539785;4.8544477 LOCATION:LAG - Eerste Schinkelstraat 14-16\, 1075 TX Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-zuid,community,course/workshop,discussion/presentation ,live,schinkelbuurt,workshop,work space/diy X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Running your own communications infrastruct ure has obvious benefits.  We live in a world of increasing digital c ensorship, and are rarely completely in charge of our communications. &nbs p;Even if we choose to use "better" alternatives to WhatsApp, Instagram, e tc., we are still always completely reliant on the one underlying network, i.e. "The Internet".  With the push of a button, "The Internet" may all of a sudden become unavailable.  In places with oppressive regime s, this has not been uncommon.  In the current political climate, it would not be surprising if any political system all of a sudden became rep ressive.


In this workshop, we will explore the possibilities for setting up a decentralized off grid communications system using the Retic ulum communication protocol stack.  We choose to focus on Reticulum b ecause it is designed for heterogeneous networks built from various cheap devices, to be deployed in a bottom up way by small communities.  Mor e information is found here: https: //reticulum.community/


The mesh network stack runs on variou s platforms.  You can run it on your desktop, your home server, your mobile phone.  In the workshop, we will focus on using Reticulum on t hree scales: (1) as a Bluetooth network for mobile phones messaging in sma ll groups; (2) building some standalone nodes that you we can deploy aroun d a city to build out an autonomous communication infrastructure; (3) and we will also look into connecting cities with more long-range radio links.
 

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