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word-spacing: 0px;">Freifunk Memorandum of Understanding</h1>
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none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">After 10
years Freifunk is quite successful, well known and widespread.
However we don't see that the original ideas and goal of Freifunk
are still taken into consideration by all communities or all
community members. Our main concern is not to exclude communities
which don't identify themselves with the hereby stated
self-understanding. But we are interested in a basic dispute about
what we are doing here jointly under the label Freifunk. This
draft was written by a group associated with the Förderverein
Freie Netzwerke e.V. It is meant to be a basic principle of
understanding and intends to encourage all communities to reflect
on the stated topics. Why do we engage in Freifunk? Which ideas
are behind it? Which goals do we pursuit? According to which
principle do we make decisions and take action? It is the goal of
this ext, to develop an understanding which connects all
individuals and groups who act under the label Freifunk.</p>
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none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Free
(wireless) networks are build and provided by many local
initiatives. The users are simultaneously operators of the
computer networks. They create "do it yourself" network by
self-reliantly connecting apartments, houses, streets of houses,
districts, villages or whole cities. A Freifunk-network is built
in a decentralized way and is operated by many individuals. This
decentralized structure of organization promotes deliberately
local activities instead of wanting to be governed by a higher
entity. "Frei" (free) stands for making these networks open and
anonymously accessible, they are to be operated in a
non-commercial way, are not analyzed and the thereby contained
information is not to be inspected, modified or censored. Although
Freifunk refers primarily to WLAN-networks, the term "freie
Netzwerke" should be taken into a broader context. It is oriented
among others by the freenetworks.org definition. Despite all
decentralization we reasonable and important to come to a common
understanding on the basic principles of the undertaking Freifunk,
in order to act jointly and support each other in our activities.</p>
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word-spacing: 0px;">Goals of Freifunk</h2>
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none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The use
of technical networks has become a everyday occurrence long ago,
nevertheless the underlying power and action mechanism are often
not being reflected on sufficiently. Freifunk has set one of its
goal to be the creation of an awareness of these contexts in the
broader society and to promote the free and open access to give
impulses for a self-determined actions. Thereby we would like to
include the needs of distinct societal groups. We consider
diversity and a broad spectrum of ideas to be an important
foundation to reach these goals. We would like to encourage all
participants to take matters in their own hands and support them
to get familiarized with the subject matter. We are aware of the
fact that this is an elaborate learning process. However we would
like to avoid the continuation of knowledge-hierarchies by the
desire of participant to be merely supplied. According to our view
this leads to the erosion of the basic idea of a "do it yourself"
network. Being Freifunkers we participate in the political process
getting the judicial preconditions for free networks. Hereby the
Freifunk movement is above party lines.</p>
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word-spacing: 0px;">Principles of Freifunk</h2>
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none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">It is
our wish to have the social community-building and the technical
implementation of free networks in the communities according to
similar principles: decentralized, with as few and as shallow
hierarchies as possible, yet with a common agreements. Many of our
principles have already been formulated elsewhere. As Freifunkers
we commit to the following already existing documents:</p>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pico Peering Agreement</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Our Vision:</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Free Culture Definition</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Community Wireless Definition</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">free networks definition</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">secrecy of telecommunications
(GG Art. 10,1)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">pinciple of Datensparsamkeit
(data scarsity) and Datenvermeidung (data avoidance) (BDSG § 3a</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">We do not log!</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The hacker ethics of the Chaos
Computer Clubs (CCC) is transferable to free networks.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The declaration of the
incompatibility of the CCC “acknowledge color against fascism” ,
especially the paragraph “Die Erklärung”</li>
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word-spacing: 0px;">Technical principles</h3>
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none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The Pico
Peering Agreement is the basis of our networks. For us the
following pillars constitute a free network:</p>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Our nodes build a mesh-network
among on another. When talking about freifunk-network we refer
to this mesh network, which is being created between the
routers. It ends where the internet begins, that is where a
router routes the data traffic into the internet. And it ends
where the private home-network begins.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">We design our networks to be
open and public: everybody can operate a node and thereby extend
the network.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Our network is accessible
anonymously, neither users nor node operators should register to
participate.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Our network is non-commercial.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nobody censors in our network.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">We abide by the secrecy of
telecommunications law.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Privacy protection and data
scarsity: We log neither connection nor inventory data. We do
not save person related data. The disclosure of email-addresses
for the purpose of making contact as well as coordinates on the
map are optional.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Users are themselves
responsible for end-to-end encryption and anonymizing their
traffic.</li>
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none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">When
designing our networks we pay attention to decentrality. Therefore
a small admin group or individual persons having control over a
whole (sub)network does not reflect our thinking. Node operators
have the to make the decision whether to chose remote maintenance.
Interventions on the nodes, for example firmware upgrades or other
remote administration work have always been done with explicit
agreement of the respective operators. Node operators can
furthermore decide weather they would like to provide internet
access, be it for the participants of the mesh network or for the
public. Hereby it is important that Freifunk is not to be
perceived as "provider for gratis internet access". Decisions
about releases in the local communities are made jointly. The
firmware for our nodes is based on free software. We publish
further developments likewise as FLOSS. Having a best possible
documentation the operator should be enabled to extend the
firmware themselves or give suggestions for improvements. Openness
creates confidence in the software.</p>
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word-spacing: 0px;">Social principles</h3>
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none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">A
pleasant social climate is important for our communities. With
Freifunk we would like to achieve that people participate actively
and feel well independent of gender, sexual orientation, origin,
believe, looks, age and further (factual or attributed) traits.
The social interaction should be respectful; newly interested are
always welcome. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination. For
us this amounts to: We neither space for nazis, nor racism, sexism
or other forms of inhumane behavior. "Participation", can include
according to our understand at least the following: using free
networks and operating nodes one's self, socially connecting in
local communities, being active in the local or supra-regional
Freifunk community with his own abilities. Participation is not
limited to technical abilities. Every form or engagement are
explicitly welcome and are seen as contributions to the community.
We are aware that questions of power arise in our communities:
power, attribution of power and exercise of power are made easier
by centralized social as well as centralized technological
structures. This is one of the reasons why we word according to
the principle of decentrality. Also questions of power can be
related to unequally distributed technical expertise. It is
important for us to deal responsibly with this matter and to
address and - where it is possible - reduce questions of power. We
would like to achieve this through maximum knowledge transfer and
decentralized structures.</p>
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word-spacing: 0px;">Proper handling of information and knowledge</h3>
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none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">We want
to learn to build and operate networks instead of having them set
up and maintained by "experts". We call that "do it yourself
network". We would like to empower and encourage people to
actively engage in the creation of infrastructure and to research
and design the impact of technology on society. We promote the
understanding of networks and network technology ("Network/Code
Literacy"), therefore we pass on knowledge at any time and make
the code publicly available. We research and experiment with
infrastructure, therefore we do not have aspirations for permanent
availability. Creation of "do it yourself" networks is a process.
We are aware that this process does not attain every goal always
at the same time. Therefore we regularly reflect critically
without hostility. We give priority to learning and improvement of
social and technological structures.</p>
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word-spacing: 0px;">Forms of organization</h3>
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word-spacing: 0px;">A Freifunk-community is a loose affiliation of
several individuals in the best case. Local associations can
support the group for example when collecting donations or when
signing contracts. Founding an own association is no precondition
for freifunk. Changes are jointly decided about by all active
participants, not only by all members of providers or
associations. For the few community-overlapping decisions we
establish "Freifunk Advisory Council", a representation of
community-members of the different federal states. This council
can be called in when there are conflicts between communities.</p>
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