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  • From: Dale <dweide9 AT aim.com>
  • To: discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org
  • Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] The OpenNIC Fund
  • Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 13:38:58 -0500 (EST)

Sorry for duplication guys, but I should have actually put the following under this subject:
 
As far as fund raising from the Kopimist Church, that's a hairy one! Granted, a little money could go a long way in boosting OpenNIC's strength & visibility. But few things affect people as much as money & religion. Both conjure up powerful & sometimes strange behavior.
Trying to hide or minimize this kind of funding would only add to conspiracy theories. It would have to be loud & clear that the two are not connected in any way. That little has ever been contemplated or presented to help fund OpenNIC, hence the reason for utilizing the Kopimist Church's assistance. We could even use it as a means of further financial support. If people felt strange about it, maybe they could put there money where there mouth is!
If this could be worked out to everyone's satisfaction, I think it would be the start of an important new day for OpenNIC. Possibly as big as the slow but wonderful increase of support by engineers across the globe, who have helped OpenNIC become the biggest open DNS project ever.
 
Dale
http://dweide9.homelinux.net


-----Original Message-----
From: Travis McCrea <me AT travismccrea.com>
To: OpenNIC discussion <discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org>
Sent: Tue, Dec 4, 2012 4:07 am
Subject: [opennic-discuss] The OpenNIC Fund

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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.

As I am sure that some donors might not like the idea of their donations
going to support other Kopimist Church projects, so we would establish a
fund that serves the OpenNIC Project directly. We could set you up with
paypal buttons, bitcoin links, etc which can be used on the website and
then we will have those funds earmarked for OpenNIC project stuff.

To go along with the previous email on the website and marketing
ourselves, I think that OpenNIC needs to do some campaigning and maybe
even some advertising and stuff to market our services. Having funds to
do that might help. Or maybe fund a couple of those IP addresses that
Julian was talking about which would allow everyone to use the same 2 ip
addresses and it would automatically assign them to the closest DNS
server (like what Google does with 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4).

I know this might be controversial so I am just going to leave this here
and let you decide what you want to do.

- -- 
Respectfully,
Travis McCrea
International Coordinator, Pirate Party of Canada
Chief Administrative Officer, Pirate Parties International

http://travismccrea.com
http://twitter.com/teamcoltra
http://fb.me/teamcoltra

1(778)709-4859 Canada
1(206)552-8728 United States

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