#+title: Community-Lab: Exploring the Future Internet on Community Networks
* Introduction
Hello, I'm (Speaker) from (organization), I work at the CONFINE project and
I'm going to talk you about Community-Lab, a community networking testbed for
the future Internet. *##*
** Community networks
- Infrastructure deployed by organized groups of people for self-provision of
broadband networking that works and grows according to their own interests.
- Based on open participation, open and transparent management, distributed
ownership (a big step beyond private and state-owned infrastructures).
- These translate into open, free (as in freedom) and neutral networks, values
akin to the Free software movement.
- The EU in its Digital Agenda regards CNs as fundamental for the
universalization of broadband networking. *##*
** The CONFINE project
- EU-financed project with several partners: CNs, research institutions and
supporting NGOs.
- Mission: support the sustainable growth of CNs by providing the means to
conduct experimentally driven research.
- Supports other projects advancing or extending CNs via financed Open Calls
(now closed).
- Provides a testbed and associated tools and knowledge for researchers to
experiment on real CNs. *##*
** Community-Lab
- CONFINE's testbed: an environment built with real hardware taking part in
real community networks to allow realistic experimental research on network
technologies.
- Mostly like PlanetLab: global-scale, best effort, with experiments
sharing resources.
- Supporting the distributed ownership, diversity, flexibility, fairness (and
instability!) of CNs: XXXX
- All Community-Lab's software and documentation is “free as in freedom” so
people can use it to setup their own CONFINE testbed. *##*
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