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[nanashiRei <nanashi.rei AT gmail.com>]

Am 04.12.2012 17:08, schrieb Falk Husemann:
> Hello Travis,
> 
> Am 04.12.2012 13:07, schrieb Travis McCrea:
>> The Kopimist Church of Idaho is willing to establish a fund for
>> the OpenNIC Project which can be used for servers, marketing, or
>> whatever the group decides. This would be a part of our missionary
>> work to promote our values of free culture and an open internet.
> 
>> We are a registered US 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, which means
>> that we could do fundraising and we wouldn't have to go through the
>> $500+ process of getting OpenNIC itself registered as a 501(c)3.
> 
> I like your idea of getting money to fund some Anycast IPs for OpenNIC.
> 
> But what I don't like is an official connection of the OpenNIC project
> to a brand new church.
> 
> - Churches are about believing, which has proven to not make reliable
> sponsors for science
> - People not believing in Kopimism might feel left out
> - Monetary control of the project in the hands of religious outsiders
> 
> Also, I couldn't find your confession of faith on the Idaho website.
> Maybe you can send me a link off-list, so I can learn some more?
> 
> And what I fear most people would think when OpenNIC is presented
> publically:
> 
> Church sponsored global Internet Infrastructure sounds not like a
> secular project leadership and more like shari'ah.
> 
> Greets,
> Falk
> 

I don't believe, that being said i still think that a church can be a
wonderful thing. They help those who are in need, maybe sometimes they
are weird in a way, but still they are not bad. I, however, cannot
entirely disagree with you on the science part. It has in fact been proven.

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