[Berlin-wireless] The Rise of the Network Commons Book Launch at Freifunk Wireless Community Weekend Sat 31 May 19:00 @c-base

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Book Launch in Berlin at 19:00 on 31.05 at the Freifunk Wireless 
Community Weekend held at c-base.

Further updates at https://www.networkcommons.org 
<https://www.networkcommons.org/posts/20250530-berlin-booklaunch/>

Update: Book now available at the Institute of Network Cultures in PDF, 
EPUB and Print on Demand 
<https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-58-the-rise-of-the-network-commons-a-history-of-community-infrastructure/> 
formats.

Armin Medosch began documenting self-managed local networking 
initiatives with his book Freie Netze, published in 2004 (German only). 
He iteratively developed The Rise of the Network Commons in draft 
chapters published on his website The Next Layer before his untimely 
death in 2017.

'The Rise of the Network Commons' is a cultural history of wireless 
community network projects that spread from their origins in London, 
Berlin, Vienna, and Copenhagen to Spain, Greece, North and South 
America, and Africa. The movement drew together a panoply of technical, 
social, and artistic hackers in the development of new computational and 
social technologies. Medosch develops a twofold thesis: that involving 
non-experts in building a network commons has a profound emancipatory 
effect on the participants, while also contributing to a radical 
democratisation of technology. In community, we begin to shape future 
technologies to serve local needs rather than commercial interests. Only 
growing in relevance since it was written, The Rise of the Network 
Commons reminds us how we build the data/information/knowledge commons – 
by becoming sovereign neighbours of practice and expertise.

We hope you will join us to celebrate the launch of Armin’s book.

Please bring along your community networking experiences and memories 
together with visions and challenges for the future of community 
infrastructure.

c-ven, Volker and Adam.
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