The Mesh Club is an experimental Falanster’s project about learning and developing wifi and mesh networks in our society.

1. Mesh Club 1.0
Make experiment! Be mesh!

2. The Club’s Mission
To develop civic non-commercial wireless
networks and share knowledge and experience
for communities.

3. What is “mesh network”?
– It is decentralized wireless network with dynamic
architecture, where every node can have different
roles, and the network infrastructure is in its
creators possession.

4. Why does the Falanster deal with it?
– Today Net (i.e. Internet) is very centralized.
– The situation allows to control and censor civic
information and communication as by providers
(ISP) as by states.
– We understand necessity that the network
infrastructure is in users’ ownership.
– It enforces and fosters different communities and
keep their freedoms.

5. The Mesh Club’s 1.0 Aim
– To deploy several mesh networks for theme and
local communities needs.

6. Main Club’s Branches
– Theoretical research
– Practical research
– Social communication
– “Wifi” map

7. Theoretical research
– Introduction the network (wireless, mesh etc)
– To learn best practices (commotionwireless,
freifunk, guifi etc).
– Experience wikification

8. Practical Research
– Change firmware (tp-link, ubiquity, mikrotik etc)
– Install services (etherpad, piratebox, kiwix, web-
server, chat)
– IT-tent
– Mesh network (pilot)

9. Social communication
– Local communities
– Topic communities
– Gamification for involving
people in the mesh process

10. “Wifi” map
– Who needs and who wants to share wifi
– Add, edit, share the points.

11. We achieve result when
– Deploy 1-3 networks (3-10 nodes for each)
– Enlist 10-15 active club participators and 2-3
communities.
– Complete “wifi” map
– Structurize experience
– Participate with IT-tent in 1-3 external events

12. What do we need for it?
• Imagination +
• Routers +
• Server +
• Wire +
• Desire!

13. How to participate
– Work with hardware+firmware,
– Work with services,
– Work with communities,
– To develop “wifi” map,
– Coordinate the Club,
– Create video plot
Complete this form!
http://goo.gl/forms/m2973L5dWR

14. = Mesh network
Make experiment! Be mesh!
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15. Contacts
• falanster.by@gmail.com
• http://falanster.by/en/mesh-club
Images source: https://commotionwireless.net