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Non-Profit Colocation?

Posted by Cliff on from the timely-idea dept.

dew asks: "I've just put together what might be the world's first non-profit focused on providing colocated Internet access for individuals, non-profits, and Open Source groups. We're called the California Community Colocation Project and we're part of a 501c3. We do not host any for-profit endeavors, personal or commercial. We've just opened our Palo Alto facilities and have multiple fiber drops to PAIX, where our upstream provider is heavily peered. I started this project to be as useful as possible to the non-profit and Open Source worlds: how would you best recommend I do that? Compile farms? A SourceForge mirror in case they go down?"

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  1. SETI@Home by Paranoid · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Perhaps SETI@Home can use some help?
    They seem to have been heavily overtaxed recently...

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    Paranoid
    Bwaahahahahaa.
  2. Here are some ideas... by Adrian+Voinea · · Score: 4, Interesting
    You could:

    Take some load off kernel.org by mirroring them. Considering the problems they have had lately, this will be very useful

    Compile farms are another good idea, I love the Sourceforge implementation

    Host as many open source projects as you can. Beware, very few will turn out to be useful & important projects for us

    Design and advertise a site that explains the open-source phenomenon and shows success stories of open source implementations.
    ... well, that's all I could think of. Also, please keep in mind that the security risks are very high. Keep your software up-to date and read bugtraq daily :)