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[Alex Nuta <alex.nuta AT protonmail.com>]

Good to hear from you, Kevin.

What I need most is to get up to speed and find out what is needed most, and what I can contribute to the project.
Obviously it goes without saying that I can run a few servers, as a volunteer. I also think I can help get the word out to spur adoption, especially now, as people are hearing more and more about internet censorship, block lists and repeal of Net Neutrality. 
The time is right to communicate on this project.

For example, I could add a Tier 1 or Tier 2 server in the datacenter ( I lease from OVH situated in Beauharnois, QC they have great connectivity.) , I have a dedicated line with fixed IPs for my home office, where I can put another server, although on a more modest 60Mbps symmetric connection that drops once or twice a year.

I'm not sure what's needed most at this junction. 

I appreciate any pointers on maximizing my contribution.

Alex Nuta

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Local Time: December 14, 2017 2:17 PM

UTC Time: December 14, 2017 7:17 PM

From: krattai AT gmail.com

To: discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org

Greetz from another canuck, Alex.

I've been actively using OpenNIC since jan 2015 for similar reasons and

via a similar path it seems.

I'm not opposed to joining efforts as I've been working on a unique,

p2p / distributed DNS for one of my projects, as well, using OpenNIC as

a T2 for that.

At this time, I recommend OpenNIC as certainly one of the best

alternatives out there.  I just don't like all my eggs in one basket,

especially if a project like this were to become just another rules and

regulations heavy, restrictive org.

Personally, I remain committed to finding or building a publicly

valuable and easily usable open, user managed, peer oriented, self

healing and perpetuating infrastructure.  I'm always interested in

discussing further.

Cheers,

Kevin

On Thu, 2017-12-14 at 10:29 -0500, Alex Nuta wrote:

Greetings from Canada.

I found this project because, before creating it myself, I wanted to

see if someone had beat me to it. Well done.

I decided to do this myself following the news that several top

telecommunications corporations in Canada are planning to create a

blocking list with no oversight or supervision controlled by three

major players in the telecommunication and content production

market.  They are currently lobbying government to discuss the matter

in secret talks as part of international treaties. Yes, we've seen

this before. Yes, they're at it again.

I have no doubt that sooner or later, one of these initiatives will

pass in the US or Canada, and soon.

Ostensibly these measures are intended to curb copyright

infringement, but behind it, it's fairly clear, is to create an

uneven playing field in the content providing business heavily

stacked in favour of the companies controlling the block list, and

turn the Internet into Cable TV all over again.

And, in my opinion, it won't stop there. The Quebec provincial

government has already asked that all gambling sites be blocked

province-wide, putting up a fence, in effect, since it has a local

monopoly on gambling through its commercial Loto-Quebec venture, next

will likely be alcohol sales, since the Quebec government assumed a

monopoly on alcohol sales province-wide, and I can easily see

governments labelling dissidents and other social activists with some

kind of terminology which gets them on the block list to silence

dissent.

Together the top three corporations involved control 50% of the ISP

market in Canada.

In this context, OpenNIC becomes a potential solution, and I intend

to publicize it to my social media audience (mainly nerds, systems

administrators, networking specialists and social activists.) 

I would be interested in any available less technical information,

infographics, or similar materials to educate the non-technical among

the group to stimulate end-user adoption. I'll make my own if nothing

like this is available.

I will also set up a few servers ASAP, after reviewing the

documentation, one located at my office, one in my home office and

another in my data centre.

Also, I work in marketing, and if I can lend assistance in that

department to get the word out, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

Alex Nuta

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