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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. 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 :)

  2. Not the first, but still a good idea by Snowfox · · Score: 4, Informative
    ISP From Hell has been doing what you're doing for years now.

    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.