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Non-Profit Colocation?
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?"
Perhaps SETI@Home can use some help?
They seem to have been heavily overtaxed recently...
Paranoid
Bwaahahahahaa.
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
Pardon me for what may seem like a troll post, but I cannot help wonder if these site/org is for real. ... a pun intended or an early April fools joke?
They call themselves CCCP
And their web site [communitycolo.net]: Red background with Yellow letters. If not a visual pun, it shows poor color choice in terms of readability. If their web site is poorly designed, what else is in questionable shape?
I can assure you it's real, I have been talking to dew and I am about to move a box into the facility, Also I have told him I am available for volunteer work.
When I first saw the site a month ago I was looking for a place for me and a few friends to place some boxes, all the regular colo's wanted upwards of $800-1000 dollars a month, but not being a buisness there was no way we could afford it.
To me this is a wonderful idea, it will allow normal people and non-profit companies a place to host sites and services for a much more reasonable price. (Free, donations sugested) I am looking forward to the day I am ready to move my boxes in and all the fun and experiance I can get volunteering.
If you think the site is designed that bad I'm sure dew would be more then happy if you offered to design him a better one. Remember this is a 100% non-profit and I know dew is spending alot of his personal money to get it moving, so of course hiring a firm to design the page is out of the question. I would do it but one look at my site would tell you I'm no pro myself.
I hope this idea takes off and communities all over the US (and the World) will soon have a place to co-locate for cheap.
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It's still a neat idea, and short of hosting outside of the USA, breaking away from commercial providers like this is the only way to get real freedom, as in Freedom of Speech, from an ISP.
You should exchange notes with other non-profit ISPs. Were a network of non-profit ISPs - free from commercial interests - to spread across the globe, you could change the world.
I've also sponsored some hardware for the CCCP as well as doing some admin work.
This project is definitly real and the CCCP pun is just that...or rather a *nod* to a somewhat socialist concept. (In fact, the IWW might start colocating with us)
-davidu
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