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| [Nettime-bold] Internet Hosting Collective -- Call for Participants (fwd) |
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:36:30 +0000 (GMT) From: taylor <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: tao: Internet Hosting Collective -- Call for Participants (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:58:06 -0400 From: Jesse Sanford <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Internet Hosting Collective -- Call for Participants INTERNET HOSTING COLLECTIVE -- CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS [ Please forward widely to concerned people and mailing lists. ] A loose group of artists and grassroots activists in New York City is forming to discuss possibilities for setting up a free, collectively- managed internet hosting service for projects that can't afford to pay standard rates for such services, or which could benefit from Internet services for which Onebox, ListBot and Geocities are inadequate. We're interested in creating a segment of Internet space for use in projects at the crossroads of activism, art, and technology. We're interested in providing access to information that might otherwise be inaccessible. We're interested in bringing the tools developed by the free software movement to people who are part of free society movements, and contributing to the free software movement along the way. WHY IS THIS PROJECT NECESSARY? The economics of Internet access are ruthless, especially for information providers. Only the most basic services are available for free, and there are very real costs associated with the bandwidth, hardware, physical space and technical expertise necessary to support Internet serving equipment. If the Internet is to be of use for noncommercial ends, or for controversial art and progressive activism, it is vital that we create, expand and maintain spaces in which these ordinary economics do not apply. WHO COULD BENEFIT FROM THIS PROJECT? Are you working on a noncommercial project that could benefit from internet-based services like the following? -- complex web sites that require custom programming -- news and discussion systems -- networked databases -- email addresses and mailing lists -- unique domain names -- anonymity for website contributors -- encrypted information storage Do you need to provide material on your web site that is potentially too controversial for a free web provider like Geocities, or simply want an ad-free site with a better URL? Could your organization benefit from networked, web-accessible databases of things like mailing lists, resource information, and so forth? Do you need full control over your internet server (i.e., root access) in order to complete your project? If so, we can't help you yet! -- But with your help, perhaps one day these services will be available. HOW CAN I PARTICIPATE? We are forming a collective to meet and discuss possibilities for working together to provide all these services. If you are interested in helping to make these services available, if you can lend time, money, advice, or expertise, please join our mailing list by visiting the web page http://hostcollective.listbot.com. Nothing has yet been decided! We do not know what kind of projects we'll host, where we'll host them, how we'll find the resources we need. Your participation could make a big difference, and nothing in this email message is set in stone. We're exploring the resources already available: from the excellent services provided by TAO (www.tao.ca), based in Canada, to hosting services provided pro bono elsewhere. If you know of people or projects with whom we should be in touch, please let us know at <[email protected]>. JOIN OUR MAILING LIST! IF YOU ARE INTERESTED in helping us put this system together, please join our mailing list by visiting the following web page and entering your email address in the form. http://hostcollective.listbot.com We hope to begin discussion online and hold a physical meeting in a few weeks. Thanks! - -- Jesse Sanford <[email protected]>, for the developing collective June 26, 2000 ------- End of Blind-Carbon-Copy _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold