DIY-ISP - Fornecedor de serviços Internet associativos

Hi everybody!

/!\ You don't have to be technical to help on this adventure (: /!\

We have gathered a little group in Lisbon that might be interested in creating a DIY-ISP.

This would be the first gathering to further organize ourselves.

The objective of this first meeting would be:

• get to know each other

• have fun together

• think about a legal structure (association?)

• set the first milestones

• organise our presence at this year's BattleMesh (http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV9)

Hope to see a great number of motivated people!

Cheers!

Pierre

PS: We already received some advice to start this adventure. You can read them before joining us in this great adventure:

• Be at least 4

• Have regular meetings (fixed date with 2 to 3 week between each meetings), this is a KEY part to ensure you are still moving.

• Focus on long time sustainability of you energy, you don't want to spend all your energy at the beginning, you are going for the long run.

• Don't kill yourself doing to perfect organisation with the perfect status. This is a very common trap and can kill a project by exhausting everyone. You goal is to provide people with neutral internet in an associative human sized and focused structure, everything else is only here to support this goal.

• You generally have the choice between a hierarchical organisation * and a more self organised one. Pick the one you are the more at ease with. Self-organisation is great but requires enough experienced people in the group for that.

• read the hackerspaces design patterns (they are short) but remember that they are only advices https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Design_Patterns

• learn what is bikesheding, avoid it http://bikeshed.com/

• communicate with other DIY ISP, we are a community, we can help and we have already solved the technical problems.