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Details: Sarantaporo.gr; 11 July 2013

The Free Software / Open Source Software Company (GFOSS) in collaboration with the Sarantaporo.gr team are organizing a workshop on Sunday, July 21st at the Pantelopoulos Cultural Center of Sarantaporo village on “Sarantaporo.gr Wireless Community Networks - Modern citizen-to-citizen infrastructure”.

The purpose of the workshop is to inform how a wireless internet access network is designed, implemented and operates based on the experience of the Sarantaporo.gr team that implemented the wireless networking of 15 villages in the greater Sarantaporo area as part of the GFOSS Open WiFi action.

The Sarantaporo.gr team’s proposal for further development of the wireless networks in the area will also be presented and an effort will be made to mobilize the local community to set up support groups in each village, where a wireless network is installed. These technical support teams will have the opportunity to be trained and in collaboration with the Sarantaporo.gr team will have the responsibility of maintaining and developing their village’s network. At the same time, ways of working with local stakeholders will be explored in order to "embrace" this effort and support it for its further development.

Details: Sarantaporo.gr; 09 July 2013

Listen to an interview of Sarantaporo.gr team, at the ERA of Thessaly on the "Sarantaporo.gr Wireless Community Networks - Modern Citizens-to-Citizen Infrastructure" workshop to be held in Sarantaporo on Sunday, 21 July 2013.

Details: Sarantaporo.gr; 12 June 2012

The Development and Management Team of Sarantaporo.gr has taken action to establish wireless access networks in the neighboring villages of Flambouro and Gerania as part of the OpenWiFi action of GFOSS, which supplied part of the necessary telecommunications equipment.

The installation and operation of the wireless networks in the villages of Flambouro and Gerania took place on 2 and 3 June 2012 respectively.

Details: Sarantaporo.gr; 21 April 2012

The Development and Management Team of Sarantaporo.gr has taken action to establish wireless access networks in the neighboring villages of Mikro Eleftherochori, Likoudi and Kokkinopilos as part of the OpenWiFi action of GFOSS, which supplied part of the necessary telecommunications equipment.

Wireless networks were first installed and operated in the villages of Mikro Eleftherochori and Lykoudi, on 17 and 18 March 2012 respectively, while the installation of the wireless network in Kokkinopilos took place on 25 March 2012 as an event of the international conference "Battle of the Mesh v.5 - warmup", featuring some of the world's leading open source wireless network programmers!

Details: Sarantaporo.gr; 23 October 2011

Listen to the phone interview a Sarantaporo.gr member gave on October 12, 2011, live on the "Thessaly Periscope" show of the ERA of Thessaly with the journalist V.Mitroussias. This interview presents the work done by the Sarantaporo.gr team in the OpenWiFI project supported by GFOSS so far, as well as plans for future implementation of free wireless wifi networks in other villages in the area.