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. *##*

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

# Community networks
# Community networks (CNs)

- What?
- Features and principles (comp. Free/Libre Software)
- Why so important?  Private vs. public vs. community.
- CNs and the Future Internet (Digital Agenda)
- Broadband self-provision
- Open participation & management, distributed ownership
- Open, Free and neutral networks
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- Key for EU's Digital Agenda

# The CONFINE project

- Mission (technical and non-technical)
- Members
- What is a testbed?
- Challenges
- Partners:
    - CNs: guifi.net, Funkfeuer, AWMN
    - Research: UPC, FKIE, iMinds
    - NGOs: Pangea, OPLAN
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- Support sustainable growth of CNs via research
- Help other projects boost CNs (Open Calls)
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- Provide a testbed for research on CNs: Community-Lab

# Community-Lab

- A testbed built on community networks
- Like PlanetLab:
- What?
- What does it allow?
- What not?
- What does it not allow?
    - 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