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[Travis McCrea <me AT travismccrea.com>]

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I know that there are some concerns about OpenNIC being tied to a
church, you have religious people who feel that they can't donate to
another type of belief system and non-religious people who would be
concerned about giving their money to a church in general.

All I could say is that these funds would be earmarked for only OpenNIC
purposes, and it's our faith that believes in the same thing that
OpenNIC does, and not OpenNIC catering to our faith.

Thanks for pointing out that our statement of faith isn't up on the site
if you notice the /about link is actually broken which gives the
overview of what we stand for. I will upload it and shoot you a link soon.

However, again, the idea here isn't that the Kopimist Church would run
OpenNIC, the money would be earmarked for OpenNIC and we would have to
come up with some form of written agreement between KCoI and the users
of OpenNIC (since there is no OpenNIC ORG), where we will make available
a monthly amount available in your fund which could be spent however the
users feel fit (or, better yet, we would have an OpenNIC representative
who we would transfer the funds to -- and allow them to interface
between OpenNIC and the KCoI for how the funds are used).



Falk Husemann wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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