[csdn-sa] Re: Installfest followups
- From: Peter Gossner <gossner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: csdn-sa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:05:31 +1030
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:10:52 +1030
David Lloyd <dlloyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
David,
I would be willing to help for the Hills area.
especially Woodside and beyond.
>
>
> Brandon,
>
> > I will be helping or willing to help in the northern
> > area.
>
> Excellent.
>
> > Any thoughts, suggestions or ideas to answer this cry
> > for help?
>
> This fits in with the Community Software Network's charter
> (1). Currently the CSDN's mission is to facilitate the
> distribution of large open source products, such as Linux,
> Open Office and so forth, to people without access to
> broadband.
>
> In addition, we're hoping to help the ISP's themselves by
> not hitting their mirrors that hard thereby avoiding them
> suddenly going "icck, no more free mirrors".
>
> There is a meeting of the CSN scheduled for January 13,
> 2003 with various items on the agenda including:
>
> * Incorporation
> * Progress report for the CSDN
>
> And I'll stack this as part of the agenda as well.
>
> It is most likely that the CSN will instantiate as an
> umbrella group for any like minded projects and provide
> services-as yet undefined-and a legal entity for said
> projects. I expect that we'll model the CSN as a"Council"
> or "Committee" with various "sub-committees" (1) which can
> contain various people of which the chairperson of the CSN
> is a member of all sub-committees ex officio.
>
> I don't expect to have to charge anywhere near $140 or $60
> for membership of the CSN, in fact I'm advocating for a
> ridiculously low membership fee - if indeed we decide to
> adopt a membership fee at all. I'm taken by the idea of
> "donate as much as you can afford but no more than $X
> [let's say $20 for argument's sake]".
>
> It's an intriguing thought, it's an intriguing thought and
> I think it will take off.
>
>
> DSL
>
> (1) I can cite the Local Government Act back to front
> including most of the regulations...don't ask me why :-)
>
> (2) I've gated this onto both the installfest and the
> csdn-sa list; cross posting is slightly naughty but we'll
> cope eh?
>
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