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This section covers where to learn about Reticulum and where to talk to other people using it.

• General resources and information

• Talks and presentations

• Community

• Other awesome lists

• Reticulum.network – Official website of Reticulum.

• Reticulum Network Stack Manual – Highly recommended read.

• Zen of Reticulum – To understand the foundational philosophy and goals of the system, read this.

• Bootstrapping Connectivity – How to obtain connectivity with the peers you want to communicate with.

• rns.recipes – Reticulum Network Stack Community

• Forum – Community discussion, build guides, and help.

• Directory – Find and connect to public transport nodes.

• Tutorial – Installing RNS and NomadNet on Linux, and navigating to your first site.

• The Reticulum Network and How it Works

• Michael Faragher's Reticulum Primer – Targeting 0.5.5, and therefore utdated in places, but still a valuable resource.

• Reticulum Protocol Textbook

• Own the Internet – A community playbook for building mesh networks. Written for the person who wants to start, not the person who already knows how.

• Build With Parallel - Reticulum Network Blueprint - This is a digital field manual. No hardware included. This guide walks you step-by-step through building your first working RNode — clearly, practically, and without guesswork — then levels you up into more advanced builds like Wi-Fi HaLow cards, mixed-radio hybrid networks, Layer-2 BATMAN-adv advanced mesh routing, and full OpenMANET deployments.

• Unstoppable Networks for The People – Mark's talk at Chaos Communication Congress 38, 2024 (YouTube mirror).

• Reticulum Network: How it Works and Why it's SO GOOD – Linux in a Bit's explainer, 2024 (YouTube mirror).

• Building Networks with Reticulum – qbit's presentation at PuebloCyberpunks, 2025.

• RNS Presentations – r8io's slides from a 2023 presentation.

• You've Probably Never Heard Of Reticulum – Guy Royse's talk, 2026.

• Understanding Reticulum Sovereign Communication Networks by Timothy Mulcahy, 2026.

• How do announces work in Reticulum (RNS) by Ken a.k.a. Frosty, 2026.

• RRC – community hub: 28c7c1a68c735693aa8e6b8193ed44b2

• Community forum – 9ce92808be498e9e05590ff27cbfdfe4

• #rns-space:yatrix.org – Matrix commmunity space with regional and other Reticulum related rooms.

• r/reticulum

• Zulip

• ChicagoLand Mesh – We are a growing community building an off-grid, decentralized, and resilient communications network using inexpensive LoRa devices.

• MichMesh – We are your neighbors building a community mesh network across the area — powered by volunteers and open-source technology.

• Moscow Reticulum Network – The Moscow Reticulum Network connects enthusiasts, radio hobbyists, and researchers building a decentralised radio mesh independent of internet infrastructure.

• Reticulum Nederland – De Nederlandse Reticulum community. Mesh networking voor iedereen.

• Réseau Libre – We are building a mesh network in the greater Montreal area: a decentralized, low-power communication network.

• MESH::IBK – Independent network infrastructure for Innsbruck.

• Regional forum on rns.recipes – Regional network building and local mesh communities.

• Awesome-Reticulum.net – A curated list of projects related to the Reticulum network (GitHub repo).

• samuk/awesome-reticulum – Fork of the above repo, formatted with tables.