[olug] Community Colo Project

[Dan Clough]

That's exactly what I had in mind Charles.  There should be an initial fee (setup fee for lack of a better term) and we should charge a monthly fee based on a member's space usage.  All members should pay equally for the bandwidth, a rate that would be included in the space usage fee.

I think a non-profit would be the obvious route to establishing an actual entity.  IIRC we'd still be able to charge for services, but there's the added benefit of tax-deductability for any donations.  Also, I can't verify this but it might get us some sympathy from our providers.

Regarding the 10 college kids in a house, here's one poor college kid who's never too poor to have a few servers running. ;)
-----Original Message-----
From: "Charles.Bird" <charles.bird at powerdnn.com>

Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:47:08 
To: Omaha Linux User Group<olug at olug.org>
Subject: Re: [olug] Community Colo Project


I always liked the model of an aero club, a club that operates an aircraft
and shares expenses, it usually requires that all members pay a membership
fee initially and then each member pays for time in the aircraft(space in
the colo?) and the membership fees covers maint, insurance, etc.  I know of
a few aeroclubs, almost every airport has one.

It would all have to get worked out, i dont know what kind of offical entity
an aeroclub is, but I know that the aeroclub pays for things that an
airplane needs, and the members pay the club.



On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:

> Just be aware that much of what I have is free for a reason:
> frankensteined equipment, cosmetic damage, bad ethernet ports, bad
> expansion slots, etc.
>
> Dan Clough wrote:
> > Thanks for alleviating my concerns on that.  One of the key goals
> > alongside keeping the operating costs down is keeping the need for
> > procurement low as well.  The more equipment we can (re)use, the
> > better!
> >
> > I fired off some info on our needs to my Cogent rep, hopefully he'll
> > shoot me a reply by tomorrow.
>
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> Phil Brutsche
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