1 00:00:02,650 --> 00:00:05,340 Hello, good morning. We are here, in Perafita. 2 00:00:05,340 --> 00:00:08,550 It is a village in the county of Lluçanès, [in Catalonia,] 3 00:00:08,550 --> 00:00:11,250 and we came to present what we did 4 00:00:11,250 --> 00:00:14,540 almost ten years ago in the library as a 5 00:00:14,540 --> 00:00:17,279 starting point for Guifi.net in the area. 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:19,550 Up on the roof we can see the antennas, 7 00:00:19,550 --> 00:00:21,250 obviously, the ones we installed back then 8 00:00:21,250 --> 00:00:22,750 have been updated; 9 00:00:22,750 --> 00:00:24,500 and now we will go to see the library 10 00:00:24,500 --> 00:00:27,000 and explain how all this happened. 11 00:00:27,100 --> 00:00:28,200 - Hi, Jordi! How are you? 12 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:29,400 - Hi, Jordi! How are you? - Hi! How are you doing? 13 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:30,500 - Hi! How are you doing? - We came to see how this Guifi thing works, 14 00:00:30,500 --> 00:00:32,250 - We came to see how this Guifi thing works, to explain a bit about what this is all about. 15 00:00:32,250 --> 00:00:33,050 to explain a bit about what this is all about. - Oh, then, come on! 16 00:00:33,050 --> 00:00:33,450 - Oh, then, come on! 17 00:00:33,700 --> 00:00:35,500 - Is the library still open 18 00:00:35,500 --> 00:00:36,500 - Is the library still open three times per week? 19 00:00:36,500 --> 00:00:37,500 three times per week? - Yes, we open it three days a week, now 20 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:40,500 - Yes, we open it three days a week, now it is closed because we open it in the afternoons, 21 00:00:40,500 --> 00:00:43,500 but we will open it just a moment to see it. 22 00:00:43,700 --> 00:00:45,200 - Then, let's go. Thank you very much. 23 00:00:46,250 --> 00:00:46,750 Marc! 24 00:00:47,750 --> 00:00:49,750 - (Isn't he down there?) 25 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:51,400 - Marc? 26 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:54,000 - This is Marc, right? 27 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,000 - This is Marc, right? He is one of the starters here. 28 00:00:56,500 --> 00:00:57,600 (And... come in). 29 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,000 -CULTURE CENTRE- 30 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,300 This is the library of Perafita, 31 00:01:06,300 --> 00:01:09,250 a rural library, 32 00:01:09,250 --> 00:01:11,950 where both books and 33 00:01:11,950 --> 00:01:13,700 access to new technologies 34 00:01:13,700 --> 00:01:15,200 are combined. 35 00:01:15,750 --> 00:01:17,400 The computers, there are quite some people 36 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:18,800 that use them. Actually, they have 37 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,050 also had computer computer courses here. 38 00:01:21,250 --> 00:01:24,150 Weekly, where have the Story Time, 39 00:01:24,150 --> 00:01:26,550 when young children come, while 40 00:01:26,550 --> 00:01:29,050 the rest of days we are open for general access. 41 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,600 Here is Marc, who was 42 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:33,600 the first person I heard 43 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:35,200 talking about Guifi.net, despite 44 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:36,450 he won't admit it, will you? 45 00:01:36,500 --> 00:01:38,350 And he is the one who made the whole 46 00:01:38,350 --> 00:01:39,450 network installation, right? 47 00:01:39,450 --> 00:01:40,700 - Actually, we were quite a few doing it. 48 00:01:40,700 --> 00:01:42,450 - And all this started 49 00:01:42,450 --> 00:01:44,650 in late 2006? In 2006? 50 00:01:44,150 --> 00:01:45,650 - Yes... 51 00:01:45,650 --> 00:01:47,400 - I remember we attended 52 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,350 a presentation by Ramon Roca and Gil [Forcada], 53 00:01:49,350 --> 00:01:51,350 they did it in Sant Bartomeu [del Grau], 54 00:01:51,350 --> 00:01:53,950 and, in fact, Perafita was one of the only [villages] 55 00:01:53,950 --> 00:01:55,950 not already connected, wasn't it? 56 00:01:55,950 --> 00:01:57,700 - True. We came back from Sant Bartomeu, where they 57 00:01:57,700 --> 00:01:59,700 already had the Telecentre and so on, 58 00:01:59,700 --> 00:02:01,500 and that was how we got in touch 59 00:02:01,500 --> 00:02:02,600 with the Guifi project. 60 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:04,500 - Here the supernode is over the library roof, 61 00:02:04,500 --> 00:02:06,000 a place that already had a DSL link, 62 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,000 which was public, ... 63 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:09,000 which was public, ... - And it is still there, isn't it? 64 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,000 - And it is still there, isn't it? - ... belonging to the Town Council. 65 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:13,750 - We laid the cables and the whole stuff, 66 00:02:13,750 --> 00:02:15,150 then put the antennas up on the roof... 67 00:02:15,150 --> 00:02:17,250 - Here, there is a link with Santa Eulàlia 68 00:02:17,250 --> 00:02:20,150 de Puig-oriol; we linked Sant Bartomeu, 69 00:02:20,150 --> 00:02:21,650 from the tower, and Santa Eulàlia. Then, 70 00:02:21,650 --> 00:02:23,200 from Santa Eulàlia, we had a link to here. 71 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:24,950 Then, they linked with Olost. 72 00:02:24,950 --> 00:02:25,950 Then, they linked with Olost. - With Olost... 73 00:02:25,950 --> 00:02:27,500 - Therefore, we had two different links and, 74 00:02:27,500 --> 00:02:29,300 in case one of them failed, 75 00:02:29,300 --> 00:02:30,600 we could still use the other one. 76 00:02:30,700 --> 00:02:33,700 - All this happened because of a resource, 77 00:02:33,700 --> 00:02:36,100 the Internet connection, that was already here. 78 00:02:36,300 --> 00:02:39,550 As Jordi explained, this resource is used 79 00:02:39,550 --> 00:02:44,650 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 80 00:02:44,650 --> 00:02:48,750 in the afternoon, so what we achieved was 81 00:02:48,750 --> 00:02:51,500 opening the library, 24 hours a day, 82 00:02:51,500 --> 00:02:53,500 seven days a week, to everyone. 83 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,500 Back in those days, practically the only place 84 00:02:57,500 --> 00:03:00,150 where there was a bit of Internet was here, 85 00:03:00,150 --> 00:03:02,050 in the center of town and counting. 86 00:03:02,050 --> 00:03:03,100 And it was very limited. 87 00:03:03,100 --> 00:03:05,100 - The neighbours of Santa Eulàlia also used 88 00:03:05,100 --> 00:03:06,600 the connection we had here, also people from 89 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:08,700 when they not yet had theirs... Well, 90 00:03:08,700 --> 00:03:11,100 that meant having broadband access in places 91 00:03:11,100 --> 00:03:13,600 where there was none, and it was super good. 92 00:03:13,700 --> 00:03:15,800 - And here, in the local server, I remember 93 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:17,800 what we deployed, as he we had 94 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:19,700 very little bandwidth, right? 95 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:22,000 We were hosting a Debian mirror, 96 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,000 we had a copy of the Wikipedia... 97 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,000 - There was a local file server... 98 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,000 - Yes, we had several things here 99 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,000 that provided local content... 100 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,500 Very nice! This is the story of how 101 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:36,900 Guifi.net arrived to Perafita, and how 102 00:03:36,900 --> 00:03:40,100 Perafita also dynamized the project; 103 00:03:40,100 --> 00:03:42,500 even if we joined a little late, 104 00:03:42,500 --> 00:03:45,500 we ended up being in the middle of it. 105 00:03:45,500 --> 00:03:48,300 Thank you very much for opening this for us, 106 00:03:48,300 --> 00:03:51,200 in the end you have learnt a little bit about 107 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,300 how all this started. And also thank you for your 108 00:03:54,300 --> 00:03:56,300 attention. It was a pleasure to share this 109 00:03:57,300 --> 00:03:59,200 experience with you and to help 110 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,400 making it also yours. Thank you very much.