Community-Lab introduction

#+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. *##*

# Local Variables:
# mode: org
# End:

% Community-Lab: Exploring the Future Internet on Community Networks
% Ivan Vilata-i-Balaguer <ivan@pangea.org> (Pangea/CONFINE project)
% FOSDEM 2014

# Community networks (CNs)

- Broadband self-provision
- Open participation & management, distributed ownership
- Open, Free and neutral networks
<!--- private / public / community --->
- Key for EU's Digital Agenda

# The CONFINE project

- Partners:
    - CNs: guifi.net, Funkfeuer, AWMN
    - Research: UPC, FKIE, iMinds
    - NGOs: Pangea, OPLAN
<!--- logos --->
- Support sustainable growth of CNs via research
- Help other projects boost CNs (Open Calls)
<!--- OC1 & OC2 project listing --->
- Provide a testbed for research on CNs: Community-Lab

# Community-Lab

- A testbed built on community networks
- Like PlanetLab:
    - Global-scale
    - Best effort
    - Experiments sharing resources
- Heavily customized for CNs: XXXX
    - Some decentralization
    - No low-level, disruptive experiments
    - No spying

XXXX

- Plays nice with other users and admins
- I.e. no disrupting low-level experiments (generally)

# Community-Lab as community infrastructure

- CONFINE extends CNs with Community-Lab nodes
- Community-Lab for hosting services
- [Clommunity](http://clommunity-project.eu/): community clouds

# Architecture and technologies

- Testbed
- Slices and slivers
- Node hardware (CD and RD)
- Django
- OpenWrt
- LXC
- kexec
- tinc

# Collaborations

- [OpenWrt](https://openwrt.org/)
- [BMX6](http://bmx6.net/)
- [OLSR](http://olsr.org/)
- [DLEP](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-manet-dlep/)
- [NodeDB](https://github.com/FFM/FFM)
- [Wibed](http://wiki.confine-project.eu/wibed:start)
- quick mesh project ([qMp](http://qmp.cat/))
- Wireless Battle of the Mesh ([BattleMesh](http://battlemesh.org/))
- International Summit for Community Wireless Networks
  ([IS4CWN](http://wirelesssummit.org/))

# Future

- Stabilization, maintainability, usability
- Federation with other testbeds
- Open Community-Lab to external users

# Thank you!

Meet us at the CONFINE stand in the K building!

More info:

- <http://community-lab.net/>
- <http://confine-project.eu/>

© 2014 Associació Pangea  
[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike][cc-by-sa]

[cc-by-sa]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
    "Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International — CC BY-SA 4.0"