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### Teach

![network-teaching](images/network-teaching.jpg)

The Network Steward community was critical to our goal of a participatory network. We have taken steps to make the network infrastructure highly visible and communicated its development progress leading up to Camp, but many people arriving to Camp would come unaware of this experimental mesh network since event networks are generally provided as an opaque service managed by a closed group of network administrators. We would need many people with enough familiarity with the network to explain what it is, its design and function, the ways that one can tinker with it, and its relation to the culture of community networking.

![network-teaching](images/network-teaching.jpg)
![thumbnail](images/node-workshop.jpg)

Organizing tours of the physical network infrastructure allowed for a visualization, and having the network model aided the mental mapping of a single mesh link to the overall network topology. We also developed small cues such as linking IP addresses with the physical building numbers and the exercise of listing one's IP address on a phone or laptop, to relate one's digital experience to the physical infrastructure. We employed various network diagnostic programs that anyone can run on their phone or laptop, to help understand concepts such as _bandwidth_ and _routing_ when discussed independently from the Internet.

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Network Stewards facilitated the _Mesh Playground_ activity, where we explained components that make up a DWeb Camp 2019 node, constructed one together, and connected this new node to extend the Camp network as the seventh node. Then the group played around with network diagnostics and ethernet cable crimping competitions. A parallel initiative, the _Geek Free Meshnet_ led by Nico, Hiure, Luandro, and other community leaders of [APC](https://www.apc.org) demonstrated how to quickly set up a mesh network with the [LibreRouter](https://librerouter.org), informed by many years of rural networking experience and designed for plug-and-play deployment that requires no technical expertise.

The Network Stewards program and is perhaps the most important part of the participatory network. The network lasted only the couple days of Camp, but the shared experience around network building built trust and technical capacities among peers. Our learning from this program will be discussed in the [retrospective](3.5-retrospective.html) along with reflections about other parts of the social experience.
![librerouter](images/librerouter.jpg)

The Network Stewards program is perhaps the most important part of the participatory network. The network lasted only the couple days of Camp, but the shared experience around network building advanced individual technical capacities and trust among peers. Our learning from this program will be discussed in the [retrospective](3.5-retrospective.html) along with reflections about other components of the overall social experience.
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