Sarantaporo.gr participates in the 8th FOSSCOMM 2015 conference with a presentation that will take place on Sunday 8/11, at 10:30 am in Room 2 of TEI of Athens, regarding its activity for the development of community networks for open internet access in the wider area of ​​Sarantaporo Elassona, making use of open source software and routing protocols. At the same time, the Community Lab Testbed developed in the framework of the FP7 Confine Project for research and experimentation on new technologies, networking protocols and services that can be developed on local community networks will be presented.

Sarantaporo.gr NPO in collaboration with the Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (AWMN) and the Free Software / Open Source Company (GFOSS), hold a two-day conference entitled "Athens Wireless Summit 2015" on Saturday 27 September 2015 and Saturday 26 September at Impact Hub Athens (28 Karaiskaki Str., Athens).

The Athens Wireless Summit is a two-day international event with people from academia, the public, open source communities, wireless community networks, educators and local authorities and anyone interested in modern information technologies and communication.

The event includes presentations, discussions, workshops, social events and exhibitions on wireless technologies, the development of network infrastructures and services, highlighting the social nature of community-to-citizen community development, and the development of active people networks around them, examples of cooperation structures that exist or can be developed between these communities in Greece and abroad.

Sarantaporo.gr NPO participates and invites you to the 3rd Festival of Commons which will take place on May 15-17, 2015 in the building of the Hellenic Archaeological Association of Ermou 134-136 in Thissio. Specifically, on Saturday at 18:00 in Room A a discussion / presentation will be held on "Wireless Community Networks as a Tool for the Development of Rural and Remote Areas. The Example of Sarantaporo.gr". We will be glad to see you there and discuss.

More about the festival here.

View the program in detail here.

Online Research on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) was conducted by the Pulmonary Clinic of the University of Thessaly in collaboration with the Sarantaporo.gr NPO. The research was carried out between March 30, 2015 and April 20, 2015 with the aim of early diagnosis of COPD.

Residents from 14 villages of Elassona province participated in the survey through the website http://surveys.sarantaporo.gr.

The questionnaire was answered by 478 residents, 48% of whom were smokers or ex-smokers, while 90 of them reported simultaneous respiratory symptoms such as cough, phlegm or wheezing.

The Pulmonary Clinic of the University of Thessaly in collaboration with the Sarantaporo.gr NPO conducts a research aimed at early diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and is mainly aimed at people over the age of 40 who smoke or have smoked in the past.

The questionnaire contains questions about possible symptoms of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the participants are given the opportunity to provide personal information (name and telephone) if they wish so that they can be contacted for free spirometry (screening test of the respiratory function) in their area.

We would advise you to devote a little of your free time to fill out the questionnaire available at http://surveys.sarantaporo.gr but at the same time to urge, any hard-to-handle a PCs local who would also be interested in the research..

Fill out the questionnaire at the following link:
http://surveys.sarantaporo.gr/478945/lang-el

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