mcelat

I would say wifis.org is "cutting out the middle man" and you don't share with an anonymous global community, but rather locally with someone you probably (get to) know. Also, its potentially free. Personally I see the biggest use case in moving and temporarily needing a wifi connection until your real ISP can hook you up.

It's the 29th annual "Chaos Communication Congress (CCC)" [1], a symposium organized by the largest german hacker organization "Chaos Computer Club (ambiguiously also CCC)" [2] founded by Wau Holland [3] in 1981

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wau_Holland