[FSFLA] Berlin 2018, Workshop for a Next Generation Internet

[willi uebelherr]

Dear friends,

this is my translated answer in the FSFde and FreiFunk-talk list in german.

My proposal for the InterNet, "the Inter-connection of local net-works", 
I also gave the people of the EU Surfey program "The Next Generation 
Internet". Clearly, with such a proposal are these people, who are only 
oriented in private/state structures and to hanle the telecommunication 
as a capitalizable object, completely overstrained.

We should always go back to the starting point. The Internet is only a 
transport system for digital data in packat form. Everything else is 
based on the application level. And to the transport system belongs the 
routing, the navigation, and the error check. We want, that the packats 
arrive the destination as we sent them.

I can gladly give you my proposal, which is well-known in the FreiFunk 
environment and in some FSF lists. Whether I can be in Berlin is still open.

My basic approach is that people organize the telecommunication 
themselves in their local communities, from small to large. Private and 
governmental instances emerge from the outset. And only in this way is 
the telecommunication from the monetary system, but this is imperative.

My basic approach is that the people organize the telecommunication 
themselves from their local communities, from small to large. Private 
and governmental instances are not needed and are superfluous. And only 
on this way is the telecommunication removable from the money system, a 
basic necessity.

with many greetings, willi
Asuncion, Paraguay


-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
Betreff: Berlin 2018, Workshop for a Next Generation Internet
Datum: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 09:35:08 +0000
Von: ng0 <ng0 at infotropique.org>
An: discussion at lists.fsfe.org

To whom it may concern beyond just being affected...

the Internet is so broken, even the European Parliament passes
resolutions against it[0] while the European Commission fosters
the exploration of better solutions[1]. Some of us have been
working on a new Internet all along and continue to do so.

We would like to invite you after 34C3, to Berlin, to discuss
and hack Next Generation Internet technologies. The kind that
actually replace parts of the existing Internet, not just adds
complexity to it.

     Start: Friday, 5th of January, 2018
       End: Sunday, 7th of January, 2018
  Location: Onionspace, Gottschedstraße 4, Aufgang 4, 13347 Berlin

We're roughly a dozen coders, working on one such solution.
With a social interaction layer on top of GNUnet[2] -
called secushare[3] - we want to continue our efforts on
developing a basic communication technology for a better
democratic society in which people be free to communicate,
share information, participate in social discourse, and be
empowered to establish structures through digital means
to organize themselves and renew the idea of democracy.
A truly social network, resistant against manipulation
by DarkAds[4] and political dashboard optimization (see
Facebook's Malvinas affair[5]) is becoming a precondition
for reasonable election results.

Some updates on what we have been doing lately:

   * Debugging of GNUnet sevices, e.g. multicast, psyc, social (all)
   * UI design for secushare (all)
   * Improved documentation (Drupal to Tex to Texinfo conversion and 
cleanup, etc) (WIP by ng0)
   * Improving the documentation (this involved Drupal to Tex to Texinfo 
conversion and applying fixes and changes to it) (by ng0)
   * Rust bindings for GNUnet (WIP by lurchi, t3sserakt)   * Refactoring 
the GNUnet scheduler for use with epoll / foreign language bindings (WIP 
by lurchi, t3sserakt)
   * Continuous integration and deployment infrastructure, with E2E 
tests (WIP by dvn)
   * Guix packaging (WIP by ng0)
   * GNUnet integration into GuixSD (WIP by ng0)
   * A new GNUnet website (coming up, moving away from Drupal)
  At our New Year meeting, we'd like to talk about some
social, technical and infrastructural topics:     * Where we are with 
secushare, and what's next
   * Our role in the European Commission's Next Generation Internet
   * The use of a deteministic debugger to get the annoying bugs removed.[7]
   * Better guidance for interested people to join the GNUnet community.
   * AGPL Licensing - Will it save us?
   * CI/CD for GNUnet, and adjacent projects
   * Fixing gnunet-fs
   * infotropique[8] OS - a GuixSD based OS interwoven[9] with GNUnet

Again, we welcome you to Berlin. If you need a place to stay
just get in touch, we will find something cheap and hospitable.
For those already around on New Year's Eve, we want to party away the 
bad vibes of 2017, embrace the shapes of things to come with good music, 
drinks, food, and nice people. So if you are interested, you can already 
join us earlier, or meet us in smaller groups during the whole week.

'Til then, Happy hacking!

los secushare peoples.
   xrs, dvn, lurchi, lynX, t3sserakt, ng0...


[0] 
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P8-TA-2017-0366+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN
[1] https://nlnet.net/NGI/
[2] https://gnunet.org
[3] http://secushare.cheettyiapsyciew.onion or just http://secushare.org
[4] 
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/31/facebook-dark-ads-can-swing-opinions-politics-research-shows
[5] https://theintercept.com/2015/04/02/gchq-argentina-falklands/
[7] http://rr-project.org/ [8] https://www.infotropique.org
[9] https://gnunet.org/git/infotropique.git/tree/ROADMAP



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