What is Freifunk?

Freifunk stands for distributing free networks, democratizing media of communication and promoting local social structures. By interconnecting whole neighborhoods, we want to bridge the digital gap and establish a free and independent network infrastructure. More precisely, the aim of Freifunk is installing open wifi networks and interconnecting them. This facilitates free data “air traffic” in the whole city within the Freifunk network. In short, Freifunk is an open, non-commercial, non-hierarchical initiative for free networks.

Activities

In the Freifunk Berlin Matrix Space are 453 active users. In addition to the main chat, there are topic chats for e.g. hardware and firmware development as well as 35 chats for specific Freifunk locations. In the main chat 400 messages have been sent in the last 30 days.

We use Github for version control of the software. There have been 94 (commits) changes to the code in the last 30 days. A total of 42 (repositories) projects are managed on the platform. The most active are currently:The following topics are currently being discussed on the mailing list:

FAQ

There is a FAQ in the Freifunk Wiki for frequently asked questions.