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The Internet and cloud services are key enablers for participation in society. The need for Internet access in areas underserved by commercial telecom operators has often been a motivation to develop community networks. Many examples around the world show successful cooperative developments of open, participatory local networking infrastructures. Such collaborative models have not yet been applied to local cloud computing resources and services. In this paper, we elaborate on the sustainability model of the http://guifi.net community network as a basis for cloud-based infrastructures and services in communities. We first look at the elements of http://guifi.net, which support the sustainability and growth of the networking infrastructure. We then discuss their application to cloud-based services within the network and come up with a framework of tools and components for community cloud resources and services. Finally, we assess the current status of the experimental community cloud in http://guifi.net, where some of the proposed tools are already operational.
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Freifunk: http://freifunk.net in Germany, over 3,000; AWMN: http://awmn.gr in Greece, over 2,000; and guifi.net: http://guifi.net in Spain, over 29,000.
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Catalan Statistics Institute (IDESCAT) http://www.idescat.cat.
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Cloudy users: https://llistes.guifi.net/sympa/info/cloudy-users and developers: https://llistes.guifi.net/sympa/info/cloudy-dev.
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Documentation for users: http://cloudy.community/, and developers: http://en.wiki.guifi.net/wiki/What_is_Cloudy/.
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Contributions to the Cloudy software: http://dev.cloudy.community.
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Distributed in stable and unstable versions: http://cloudy.community/download/.
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This work was supported by the European Framework Programme 7 FIRE Initiative projects CONFINE (FP7-288535), CLOMMUNITY (FP7-317879), by the Horizon 2020 framework programme project RIFE (H2020-644663), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTECH and by the Spanish government under contract TIN2013-47245-C2-1-R.
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Baig, R., Freitag, F., Navarro, L. (2016). On the Sustainability of Community Clouds in guifi.net. In: Altmann, J., Silaghi, G., Rana, O. (eds) Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services. GECON 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9512. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43177-2_18
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