Montréal Anarchist Technology Convergence — Presentation and discussion of community organising efforts in the Netherlands for grassroots communication infrastructures linking autonomous spaces and providing public services. Our aim is to collectively reformulate our communication needs and relationship to everyday technologies that we rely on. We need to be able to use existing hardware and legacy protocols as well as adopt to novel developments in the information environment. Meanwhile, we need to cater for both usability and security concerns. Deployment and development needs to happen through the involvement of a wide range of different people including but not limited to techies. The technology has to align with our political values, in terms of intentional outcomes being reflected in design choices and documentation efforts. For these reasons we focus on the Reticulum Network Stack that is so much more than a LoRa messaging protocol.

https://mtl-atc.org/