> >Yeah, it is a soft money issue. Well you've got a good idea that I will > go check on (if one contributer payed for hosting out of pocket as a > campaign contribution). But i think if this thing works hosting will cost > a bit more than $2K a month and things will get messy. $2000 is not enough > >to pay for this thing I think.... > > Got it; and that's all fine by me (although, if it's just linux hosting, > it's amazing what $2000, even $200, will buy...).
FYI my company (Polycot) is evaluating what it would cost to host the sites h4d is creating (as opposed to node hosting). Our tech director Jeff Kramer is on this and the dev list, and is talking to Neil to find out what's involved. > But at least part of my idea on this was, what if (god forbid) > Dean flails? > As I've said a couple times before, this project is potentially > much bigger > than one cause because it's really all about the future of online > networking/organizing. I'd hate to see things disintergrate if Dean "goes > south", say, when the primaries go south. So having the hosting > space might > have given us an tangible "turf" where the organization's code and such > could be sustained and a central "site" could operate if need be. As already mentioned to Zack & Josh, EFF-Austin is planning a collaboration with EFF to build an activists' network - we've already build some energy in multiple states around the SDMCA fight, and we can leverage that to build something bigger a la 'nodal politics.' That might be a good project for this toolkit. best, Jon Jon Lebkowsky CEO/Catalyst, Polycot http://www.polycot.com
