Not orphaned just lacking funds, hardware, and geek-power. Once Eater left Dragon never helped with anything. Vudu was keeping things going but he left for Wisconsin not long after Eater left. For the last year everything has been run by Sam and myself. The last big event was the party at Rhino's where there were lots of people involved like Heat, Dub, and a few others. Other than that things have been pretty quiet although a couple new nodes are up and we have implemented wifi-dog for authorization and usage tracking. We have also migrated our web services to a MediaTemple host which handles authorization and website delivery as well as email functions. Mostly we have been trying to cut costs as much as possible. Bell South sucked most of the funds, $120 a month for a crappy DSL connection, we had until Knology came through with a free connection which was negotiated by Brian Sorrels when he was still with Carmike.
At the very minimum it costs $20.00 a month to keep things running. That only covers the hosting cost. That doesn't cover anything else and Judy Bug's Books, where the Lolpht is located, is also increasingly concerned about power usage. Summary: we are still around but operating on an old and tattered shoestring budget. For those interested in donating please check out: http://www.columbusfreenet.org/index.php?title=Donations There is a PayPal button for those who prefer to donate online. --5A andrew kesterson wrote: > 0x0000 wrote: > >> The Arts on the River event is coming up 20 Oct and not only has no one >> from Freenet responded to my enquiries about getting wifi coverage for >> the event, or about hosting on CFn servers - no one has responded at >> all - I think there have been about 3 posts to the newsgroup over the >> last 6 months, so I have to assume that the Freenet is at least >> inactive these days, if not disbanded. >> > > I think when Eater left Drageon and a few others were trying to keep > things rolling, but there wasn't much interest and not enough > personnel/time/hardware to go around, I think. By the time Drageon left > for ATL, the project was pretty much orphaned, from what I understand. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CHAOS706.ORG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chaos706?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
