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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada
From: Russell McOrmond <russell_-at-_flora.ca>
To: flora-admin-help_-at-_flora.org
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:14:31 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 en503@ncf.ca wrote: > First question is very simple. How does one get started with respect to > using the services provided by Flora? Note, this is not a request for > technical help. Just need to be shown the door (ie how do I get an > account name, etc) A simple URL with this info is fine, since I > obviously missed it. The FAQ is the best place to start. If it is missing something, then this forum is where to ask. http://www.flora.org/flora/faq.shtml > Second question. What is the recommended yearly > donation once Flora is hosting a community project for those I > represent? I ask this as a (possibly unfair) comparision to > the NC Freenet, where I'm assuming donations are not mandatory > but certainly helpful. The hard-resources (the stuff that would need money) of FLORA.org is entirely sponsored by my company FLORA.ca . The soft-resources (people time) are offered by individual people who are going to be willing to volunteer their time. There are ways in which FLORA.org and NCF.ca have similarities, but there are many ways they are different. NCF.ca is sponsored by its members as well as corporate/union/government and other sponsors (some of the sponsors having questionable values), but is open for all citizens to join and participate in. FLORA.org is sponsored by myself who has my own values. Who is offered resources is fairly subjective: I have to believe in what the group is going at some level. To see a list of current groups go to http://calcutta.flora.ca/ FLORA.org provides communications tools for a select group of people/organizations to then communicate with the world. NCF.ca provides communications tools for a broader range of people, and accepts donations from a broader range of organizations. If you want to support more independent media stuff like FLORA.org to be kept going I recommend the following: a) You volunteer time either for FLORA.org, or for related volunteer organizations such as PERC.ca (Join the BBS to learn more: http://www.perc.ca/phpBB2/ ), the GOSLING Community <http://www.goslingcommunity.org>, the Open Source Weekend <http://www.osw.ca/> and/or the OPIRG Ottawa technology group that is just forming. Hopefully Julien can post information in this forum about the OPIRG Ottawa tech group so that interested people can join. b) You direct people wanting commercial services to the sponsors. While I am personally the sponsor, any work directed at http://www.OpenConcept.ca helps FLORA.org. All my own virtual-server and collocation hosting services are billed through OpenConcept. c) You help promote the values that FLORA.org promotes, with the most visible obviously being promotion/education around Free/Libre and Open Source Software <http://www.flora.ca/floss.shtml> d) You financially support related services which need such support. As an example, Rabble.ca is going through some hard times right now and is needing some donations. Rabble.ca: Voices worth supporting http://www.flora.org/mai/forum/45368 > Thanks. > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Jean-Pierre Lebel > "Watch from where the streams of your inspiration flow" > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= --- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> Governance software that controls ICT, automates government policy, or electronically counts votes, shouldn't be bought any more than politicians should be bought. -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/
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