[olug] Community Colo Project

[Dan Clough]

Figuring out a pricing structure is a priority at this point in time,
but that's currently on hold until we find out what the damage is for
the Pinpoint cage and power circuits.  With all the pledges of equipment
we've seen so far, I doubt our expenses will exceed that of the cage
space, power and bandwidth.

While we're on the subject of finances, we *really* need to decide what
we're going to do about legal entities.  I've been juggling ideas which
include forming our own nonprofit corporation, piggybacking on another
organization or just dumping it on one person's shoulders.  The last one
is an obvious no-no as I doubt anyone would want to take sole fiscal
responsibility of the venture if it went tits-up.  Ideas?

Dave Rowe wrote:
> Phil Brutsche wrote:
>> People should be allowed to bring in anything they want (given
>> reasonable hardware constraints - ie 4U or smaller rackmount) as long as
>> they maintain their machine(s) properly and bay their bill.
>>
>> I'm just making sure people are performing reality checks, we shouldn't
>> be getting any grandiose ideas and ordering a 50Mbps line under the
>> assumption that there will be that many "clients".
>>
>> Dan Clough wrote:
>>> Well, that's just it.  Hopefully it won't just be us, hopefully we
>>> can get people who want colocation or even local web hosting but
>>> can't find it... Even if it means inviting the WUG in... ;)
>>>
>>> We want enough capacity for us to fill and for any other "clients"
>>> we'll hopefully bring on board.  20Meg should be fine.
> 
> With that in mind, does someone who has an idea (ballpark is even 
> valuable) as to what the monthly cost (+ setup? ie, to help cover the 
> Cogent installation?) per U is?  Then, people who might use it can 
> evaluate (reply to the list) with what they'd want (no obligation). 
> Then, you'd have a better idea of how big the client base is, and what 
> the estimated usage would be.
> 
> I've throughly enjoyed following this, and see myself as a potential 
> 'client' of this, but without knowing the monthly cost, I'm not fully 
> 'sold' on it.
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