Freifunk Essen

Are you ...

• Interested in learning more about the Freifunk Project? Watch our video Freifunk verbindet and continue reading at freifunk.net.
• Interested in hacking and building our firmware? Keep reading!

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Freifunk is:

...a non commercial open initiative to support free and open (operated by the general public) radio networks (WLAN) in the German region. It is is part of the international movement for free wireless radio networks and free networks in general.

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We use [OpenWrt](https://openwrt.org/)/[LEDE](https://www.lede-project.org/) based firmware to build mesh-networks using [batman-adv](https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki) and optionally encrypted VPN tunnels using [fastd](https://projects.universe-factory.net/projects/fastd/wiki). Our firmware is basically a fork of [freifunk-gluon](https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon) with patches applied for more practical use.

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This is the site repo where we store the firmware configuration files and patches for the Freifunk community in Essen (Germany).
You can find our gluon buildscripts here. Additional packages used can be found here.

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Technical info

We have changed our versioning scheme after 0.7.x. Following releases' versions contain the gluon version and our revision number. 1.1.2-0 => Gluon 2015.1.2 first revision (mostly without custom packages) 2.3.4-2 => Gluon 2016.3.4 third revision

Community, discussion, and contribution

Meeting

We have public meetings once a month in a hackerspace called Chaospott... You can find our dates on our website.

Discussion

Join our channel #essen on freifunk.slack.com.

Code of conduct

Participation in the Freifunk Essen community is governed by our Code of Conduct. tl;dr: "Be excellent to each other"!

Pico Peering Agreement

http://www.picopeer.net/PPA-de.shtml

Freifunk Memorandum of Understanding

https://github.com/freifunk/MoU/

Are you ready to add to the discussion?

We have presence on:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Website

Want to contribute to the Freifunk Project?

If you're interested in being a contributor and want to get involved in developing and building free networks, get your ass up and join our community!

Or, if you just have an idea for a new feature that brings more freedom in wireless Networking join the LEDE Project (link to lede website).

Links and thx to GLUON and LEDE Project.