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Sarantaporo.gr is a non-profit wireless network community founded in 2013 in Elassona Municipality in Greece. [1] The network helps locals organize cooperative work to deploy and operate the wireless network infrastructure, organized as a commons.

The WCN participated in the CONFINE, [2] the netCommons [3] and the MAZI [4] research projects. A documentary [5] presents the networks in the Sarantaporo area.

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References

  1. "What is Sarantaporo?". 2016-11-14.
  2. Navarro, L.; Vinas, R. B.; Barz, C.; Bonicioli, J.; Braem, B.; Freitag, F.; Vilata-i-Balaguer, I. (July 2016). "Advances in wireless community networks with the community-lab testbed". IEEE Communications Magazine. 54 (7): 20–27. doi:10.1109/MCOM.2016.7509374. hdl: 2117/105441 . ISSN   0163-6804. S2CID   27388479.
  3. "netCommons". www.netcommons.eu. Retrieved 2017-07-05.
  4. "MAZI". www.mazizone.eu. Retrieved 2017-07-05.
  5. Personalcinema. org (2016-07-10), Building Communities of Commons in Greece. A documentary on networks in Sarantaporo area. , retrieved 2017-07-08