nodewatcher: A Substrate for Growing Your own Community Network
Jernej Kos, Mitar Milutinovi\'c, Luka \v{C}ehovin

TL;DR
Nodewatcher is a modular, extensible platform designed to simplify management, configuration, and monitoring of community networks, facilitating organic growth and interoperability among diverse community wireless deployments.
Contribution
It introduces a reusable, platform-independent management system that automates device configuration and provides live network monitoring for community networks.
Findings
Successfully deployed in wlan Slovenija community network.
Reduces manual configuration errors and simplifies network management.
Supports growth and interoperability of community networks.
Abstract
Community networks differ from regular networks by their organic growth patterns -- there is no central planning body that would decide how the network is built. Instead, the network grows in a bottom-up fashion as more people express interest in participating in the community and connect with their neighbours. People who participate in community networks are usually volunteers with limited free time. Due to these factors, making the management of community networks simpler and easier for all participants is the key component in boosting their growth. Specifics of individual networks often force communities to develop their own sets of tools and best practices which are hard to share and do not interoperate well with others. We propose a new general community network management platform nodewatcher that is built around the core principle of modularity and extensibility, making it…
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