#communitynetworks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #communitynetworks, aggregated by home.social.
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Which community network are you representing this year?
Introduce yourself and your project — and if you haven't yet, add yourself to the participants list so others can see who's coming.
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WEBCAST 7-13 SEP - Battlemesh v18
@battlemesh gathers in Gornji Karin, Croatia for a week of talks and workshops on mesh networking, wireless community networks and OpenWrt, plus a self-organised mesh running competing routing protocols side by side. Sponsored by the Chaos Computer Club, @freifunk and the Internet Society Community Networks & Infrastructures SIG.
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freifunk.net unterstützt BattleMesh v18
Vom 7. bis 13. September 2026 trifft sich die Community in Gornji Karin, Kroatien, zum Wireless Battle of the Mesh – Talks, Workshops und gemeinsames Experimentieren rund um freie Netze.
https://freifunk.net/2026/08/freifunk-net-unterstuetzt-battlemesh-v18/
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**BattleMesh Archive**
One of the core traditions at BattleMesh: deploy a mesh network on site, run multiple routing protocols (Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N., OLSR, 802.11s …) and compare them in the field.
Here's a talk from a previous edition on mesh routing and network resilience:
📺 Video:
https://media.freifunk.net/v/evolution-of-the-babel-routing-protocolWhat has changed in your network since then?
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BattleMesh brings together community networks from Freifunk, guifi.net, ninux.org, NYC Mesh, and many more — across Europe and beyond.
Every network faces different challenges, but we share a goal: open, community-driven connectivity.
Which network are you part of? Tell us in the replies.
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The hardest part of building your own community network isn't the technology — it's overcoming the conditioning that tells you telecoms infrastructure is something corporations build, not communities. That conditioning is wrong. New post: a practical guide based on real deployments, covering hardware shopping lists, Australian funding programmes, and how to start with three households and grow from there.
https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-01-29-from-consumer-to-creator/
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