It has been a few years since I learned about Guifi.net (non-English site; English portal:guifi.net/en/node/38392) in Catalonia/Valencia - a 2004 startup. WP sa

It has been a few years since I learned about Guifi.net (non-English site; English portal:guifi.net/en/node/38392) in Catalonia/Valencia - a 2004 startup. WP says that (as of a year ago) it has 'over 33,000 active nodes and about 46,000 km of wireless links.' It's described (in English) in this 2016 paper http://dsg.ac.upc.edu/sites/default/files/dsg/acm-sigcomm-gaia-guifi-econ.pdf http://dsg.ac.upc.edu/sites/default/files/dsg/acm-sigcomm-ga... as 'known to be the largest community network in the world ... and is still growing while successfully evading the collapse of the tragedy of the commons. Undoubtedly, this is due to the governance model that the foundation has developed....' Since it's been around for a while, and still viable, that says something about the idea worth attending to. More info: http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~jbarcelo/tmp/guifi.net.pdf http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~jbarcelo/tmp/guifi.net.pdf