Editing Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (section)

== The community ==
Users are categorised as [[Backbone network|backbone]] nodes and [[Wireless access point|AP]] client nodes. The backbone nodes are nodes routing data that have no origin and destination themselves.

The network is a mosaic of people from varying ages and educational backgrounds including IT and telecommunications professionals, radio amateurs, IT students and technology enthusiasts. All are driven by a strong community spirit and contribute on a voluntary basis.<ref>[http://www.hellaswifi.gr/node/96 AWMN: the soft factor] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080930173113/http://www.hellaswifi.gr/node/96 |date=September 30, 2008 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.hellaswifi.gr/sites/default/files/Motivations%20of%20Wireless%20Community%20Participants.pdf   M. Bina and G.M. Giaglis. Motivations of Wireless Community Participants. Abstract of Department of Management Science and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business, p4, 2006.]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>