A proposal by Joel Gethin Lewis.

EveryWhere is an open-source platform that enables communities to build their own sustainable digital networks.

EveryWhere is made up of three parts:

1. 🏘: A long-term method to enable local communities to own, use, grow and manage their own EveryWhere instance.
2. 🤖: A hardware platform for making a secure, sustainable, community spanning wi-fi network.
3. 👩🏽‍💻: A software platform for writing, reading and interacting with community content that is hosted on an EveryWhere instance.

EveryWhere has three research goals:

1. 🤝: To enact, distribute and prove best practices for how local communities can create their own private community networks for sensing, resilience, cohesion and joy.

2. 🔁: To prove best practices in the field of sustainable computing – spanning local hardware manufacture and assembly, renewable electrical power systems and software development practices that function beyond the lifespan of individual engineers and companies.

3. 🎨: To prove best practices in the creation of functional and artistic augmented reality content for and by communities.

🎪: EveryWhere is a hyper-disciplinary project that will draw on a wide range of skills and practices in the following five themed areas:

1. Community
2. Sustainability
3. Software
4. Hardware
5. Content

All of these themes intersect each other, in multiple dimensions.

👨🏿‍💻: We want to make a sustainable computing community.

🔝: EveryWhere aims to make a new vertically integrated co-operative that can scale to billions of users, providing a bottom-up alternative to the top-down world in which we find ourselves.

🗣/☀️ The first two outcomes for the project are a conference and a working solar powered prototype.

🗣: The conference will be the first outcome of the project, bringing together interested parties from the themes of Community, Sustainability, Software, Hardware and Interaction.

☀️: The second outcome will be a working solar powered prototype built around the following platforms, situated in London:

• Raspberry Pi
• Subnodes by Sarah Grant
• PiJuice for Solar Power and storage

Future plans include an investigation of clockwork power, the rituals that might take place around the use of said power and engaging with remote communities across the UK.