[olug] Community Colo Project

[Eric Penne]

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On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Dan Clough <dclough at gmail.com> wrote:
> Pain-in-the-ass way it is.  I had articles for a nonprofit typed up, I'll start working on articles for a LLC.
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> What should we call it?  The usual "(insert city here) Community Colocation Project" or do we want something that hasn't been beaten into the ground?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Charles.Bird" <charles.bird at powerdnn.com>
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> Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:43:20
> To: Omaha Linux User Group<olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Community Colo Project
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> From my experience, the pain in the ass way is usually the best way.
> The pain in the ass way might be for us to form our own entity.
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> I'm not a 100K per year super Linux admin(yet?) if I made even 70k I'd take
> it on with my own responsibility.
> All I can do is contribute cash and time, and some equipment.
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> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Dan Clough <dclough at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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