Lazy caster: does anyone have any recommended reading on INTRANETS?

I am interested in the idea that a community could run its own private version of the Internet, just for them

In Spain we have https://guifi.net/

It is fully connected to the internet but it is fully managed by the users as a cooperative. You get fiber, high quality internet fully run by the community which to some extends is an intranet but with a gateway to the world. 

Also a long time ago in Madrid we created neighborhood networks using wifi cards and home made antennas. 

The peak moment was when people put computers in olive oil to keep them protected from the rain but the acidity of oil ruin the circuits. Those were the food old days. 

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We don't take it personally 😁

Guifi.net is amazing. Seriously, because it entails setting up fiber everywhere.

Also take a look at this other project in Mexico https://www.rhizomatica.org/

Using open hardware and open source they managed to give communities communications that others rejected it because it was not worthy. From their site:

Rhizomatica began in 2009 as a quest to make alternative telecommunication infrastructures possible for people around the world facing oppressive regimes, the threat of natural disaster, or the reality of living in a place deemed too poor or isolated to connect

This is amazing. I see stuff like this and am ashamed I ever participated in the Europoor meme.

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Are you moving to Madrid or Barcelona? If you are in Barcelona, I guess there should be meetings. In Madrid, we have Medialab Prado, where we had some initiatives towards this a long time ago.

I'm interested in getting connected socially to this community once I move there this summer, are there meetups you're aware of?