1.
Opening proprietary networks with

2.
Dealing with networks sucks!
Developing applications to deploy
and manage networks is hard
Harder than we should allow it to be

3.
Proprietary
Most hardware and software used
to deploy and manage networks
is proprietary

4.
Vendor lock-in
Vendors do their best to lock users
within their hardware and software

5.
Security upgrades
Vendors are often slow to
patch their security vulnerabilities

6.
No experimentation, slow innovation
This environment doesn't leave
much space for experimentation
which in turn leads to slow innovation

7.
Increased costs
Have you noticed wifi usually sucks at events?
Software that solves this problem exists
BUT ... it may cost you a kidney!

8.
Internet infrastrcuture?
Ever tried to build one of these?
● internet infrastructure
● public wifi
● mesh networks
Let me tell you:
It's hard and costs a lot of money

9.
Consequences?
As a dire consequence of this situation
as of 2017
half of the human population is still offline
source
How can we talk about diversity?

10.
Nikola is not happy

11.
What can we do?
There's no silver bullet
But the OpenWISP project has been working
on these issues for a while

12.
What is OpenWISP?
OpenWISP is a set of software modules that can be
used to deploy and manage wireless networks
(public wifi, backbone, mesh networks)

13.
OpenWISP 2
OpenWISP 2 is built with python and django
Follows a modular approach
Has been attracting a lot of interest
from emerging economies

14.
Talk at Pycon Italy
next Saturday (8 April 2017) at 16:45
I will talk about the internals of OpenWISP 2
At Pycon Italy
Applying the unix philosophy to django projects

15.
Talk to me
Have critical feedback, ideas, suggestions?
Just curious?
Come and talk to me

16.
Find more
Find more information about OpenWISP at:
openwisp.org
@openwisp on github

17.
Thank you
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github (@nemesisdesign)
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