--- Five Able <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not orphaned just lacking funds, hardware, and geek-power. Once > Eater left Dragon never helped with anything. Vudu was keeping things > going but he left for Wisconsin not long after Eater left. For the > last year everything has been run by Sam and myself.
It sounds like you guys are the ones I need to talk to, then. I'm trying to get access to the NOC, and I have some thoughts about how to raise some funds to build-out the network a bit more. > The last big event was the party at Rhino's where there were lots of > people involved like Heat, Dub, and a few others. Other than that > things have been pretty quiet although a couple new nodes are up and > we have implemented wifi-dog for authorization and usage tracking. > We have also migrated our web services to a MediaTemple host which > handles authorization and website delivery as well as email functions. > Mostly we have been trying to cut costs as much as possible. > > Bell South sucked most of the funds, $120 a month for a crappy DSL > connection, we had until Knology came through with a free connection > which was negotiated by Brian Sorrels when he > was still with Carmike. > > At the very minimum it costs $20.00 a month to keep things running. > That only covers the hosting cost. That doesn't cover anything else > and Judy Bug's Books, where the Lolpht is located, is also > increasingly concerned about power usage. I image that has more to do w/ the A/C than w/ the servers themselves? We should talk about this in person... > Summary: we are still around but operating on an old and tattered > shoestring budget. Okay, that's about what I figured - I don't have much in the way of $$, but I do have a few resources I would like to bring into play if I can get some functional return on the investment. > > > For those interested in donating please check out: > > http://www.columbusfreenet.org/index.php?title=Donations > > There is a PayPal button for those who prefer to donate online. > > > --5A > > > andrew kesterson wrote: > > 0x0000 wrote: > > > >> The Arts on the River event is coming up 20 Oct and not only has > no one > >> from Freenet responded to my enquiries about getting wifi coverage > for > >> the event, or about hosting on CFn servers - no one has responded > at > >> all - I think there have been about 3 posts to the newsgroup over > the > >> last 6 months, so I have to assume that the Freenet is at least > >> inactive these days, if not disbanded. > >> > > > > I think when Eater left Drageon and a few others were trying to > keep > > things rolling, but there wasn't much interest and not enough > > personnel/time/hardware to go around, I think. By the time Drageon > left > > for ATL, the project was pretty much orphaned, from what I > understand. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 0x0000 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CHAOS706.ORG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chaos706?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
