Thanks. My GPG Public Key is at https://www.free2air.org/[email protected]
Adam Burns
Adam was the Technical Manager for Australia's first national ISP. He co-founded Europe's first open Community Wireless Network. He is a member of Fördervereins Freie Netzwerke e.V. (freifunk) & member of the United Nations IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity. He maintains the Devuan linux distribution Raspberry Pi images. He is also currently Thinker & Doer at the Dyne.org Foundation.
yesterday ... all my troubles seemed so far away ...
https://tldr.nettime.org/@[email protected]/117167405181951192
Thanks to web3privacynow for asking me to join a panel for the Neocypherpunk Summit at Funkhaus Berlin on Sunday. Was a pleasure to join Bradley Clark Royes, Liz Steininger, Calle and Beth McCarthy in a great session on "Building the Stack: Self-Hosted, Mesh and Decentralized Infrastructure in Practice"
Reflect on your usage of services and tools provided by these companies to measure your own personal complicity. Take action not as protest but as active personal non-involvement with corporate support of mass human suffering and death.
now who would have thunk it?
The PSP lets you massage the trees and allow them to sing back to you ...
Talk to the trees with a World Wide Wood emulator ...
5/10/2026, 3 engagements
Meme crockery. Plates with attittude on display on Berlin.
More clearly set on the table at https://veryuglyplates.de/
Modern themed Anatolian wall carpets displayed in Berlin.
Head to https://www.oldthepond.com/ for a breakdown.
Last Day to Support Community Network initiatives around the world!
The Internet Society is offering a chance for Community Networks to become the subject of a resourced Special Interest Group.
It only takes a minute or two today to help our initiative be selected.
Please take a moment today by voting for the Community Networks & Community Infrastructures SIG https://www.internetsociety.org/sigs/
Your support is appreciated and will amplify global attention to locally owned and operated digital infrastructures.
Further information can be found in the application submission and our info page sponsored by Freifunk listing supporting groups around the world. http://isoc-sig.freifunk.net/
I urge you today to pass these details on to friends, colleagues and local network activists to secure this opportunity to give increased international attention to local initiatives for the next two years.
Thank you for your support!
10/31/2025, 2 engagements
Don't miss today's London book launch of Armin Medosch's The Rise of the Network Commons.
As a history of community infrastructure, The Rise of the Network Commons is a highly topical narrative for strengthening the resilience of our local last mile digital infrastructures and re-enforcing regional digital self-sovereignty through direct community participation and knowledge sharing. We build the network commons by becoming sovereign neighbours of practice and expertise.
The launch will feature live sound/music performances from Mukul Patel & Gavin Starks together with a collaborative group book reading & signing event.
Join supporters & participants of community network development in launching this publication.
Friday, 13 June 2025, 16:30-21:30 BST Hermitage Community Moorings 16 Wapping High Street London E1W 1NG
RSVP: https://doodle.com/sign-up-sheet/participate/b836f4f1-3e0e-4a34-a2ce-82544d33c136/select
Edited by
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, the book is now available in PDF, ePUB & hard copies through Print on Demand service through the Institute of Network Cultures at https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-58-the-rise-of-the-network-commons-a-history-of-community-infrastructure/
Print on Demand: https://www.lulu.com/shop/armin-medosch/the-rise-of-the-network-commons-a-history-of-community-infrastructure/paperback/product-yvyjw8z.html
was the book launch recorded as well as streamed on https://c-tube.c-base.org/ ?
Cyber Cyber Cyber
6/3/2025, 1 engagement
Dear Geert, thank you for your online contribution at the Berlin launch of the INC publication of The Rise of the Network Commons by Armin Medosch.
fyi: new book release
rise of the network commons by armin medosch
gory details
Book Launch in Berlin at 19:00 on 31.05 at the Freifunk Wireless Community Weekend held at c-base.
Further details at https://www.networkcommons.org
Armin Medosch began documenting self-managed local networking initiatives with his book Freie Netze, published in 2004 (German only). He iteratively developed The Rise of the Network Commons in draft chapters published on his website The Next Layer before his untimely death in 2017.
'The Rise of the Network Commons' is a cultural history of wireless community network projects that spread from their origins in London, Berlin, Vienna, and Copenhagen to Spain, Greece, North and South America, and Africa. The movement drew together a panoply of technical, social, and artistic hackers in the development of new computational and social technologies. Medosch develops a twofold thesis: that involving non-experts in building a network commons has a profound emancipatory effect on the participants, while also contributing to a radical democratisation of technology. In community, we begin to shape future technologies to serve local needs rather than commercial interests. Only growing in relevance since it was written, The Rise of the Network Commons reminds us how we build the data/information/knowledge commons – by becoming sovereign neighbours of practice and expertise.
5/28/2025, 5 engagements
"We build the future – software infrastructure and invisible bridges"
The final panel discussion for "Eight years of Prototype Fund" in Berlin last Saturday.
I outline the complementary role of the Prototype Fund for innovation and socially meaningful open source development against that of the newly re-minted Sovereign Technology Agency for funding maintenance of existing critical open source infrastructure. The social criticality & sovereignty of 'infrastructure' can be examined through the lens of multiple levels of scale, from the personal, to regional, to the national and EU levels.
with Karolin Varner (Rosenpass), Adam Burns (sig0namectl) & Holger Levsen (Reproducible Builds)
https://prototypefund.de/en/eight-years/
tmp.out issue 4 freshly minted
Bluesky federation washing
Rewilding software engineering
https://medium.com/feenk/rewilding-software-engineering-900ca95ebc8c