From P2P Foundation

= To free cyberspace from corporate and governmental dictatorship

URL = http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Intermesh

Description

"Intermesh (working title) is a project striving to unite disparate and localized efforts and initiatives to create grass-roots electronic networks enabling people to exchange information freely.

There are two motivating trends to this project. On the one hand we see a number of projects world-wide that surpass the range and abilities of commercial-grade telecommunications carriers. On the other hand there is an increasing grip on the internet at large by industries that want to clamp down on information sharing and governments that want to limit the nature of information available.

The disconnection of whole countries, censorship but also industry-lobby threats to free speech such as ACTA and 'three strikes you're out' show that there is a need for a free alternative, powered by people and not corporations.

This page is currently a stub, a place to collect links and information and to see if there is interest. As the year 2011 progresses, the project will take shape."

Goals

   * Unite geographically spread meshing networks and other grass-roots networking projects
   * Design and roll-out intercontinental links
   * Launch a fleet of communication satellites 

Directory

A random collection of relevant links:

   * http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/space.html
   * http://www.funcubedongle.com/
   * http://www.db.net/volksat/
   * http://www.wirelessantwerpen.be/ (http://nodedb.wirelessantwerpen.be/?page=nodes)
   * https://256.makerslocal.org/wiki/index.php/MakerLaunch / https://256.makerslocal.org/wiki/index.php/MakerSat
   * http://www.baycom.org/~tom/ham/soundmodem/
   * http://www.newamerica.net/files/HomesWithTails_wu_slater.pdf
   * http://guifi.net/
   * http://battlemesh.org/
   * http://craphound.com/unwirer/
   * http://darknetmap.zone42.ca/
   * http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Byzantium