This across the wire from Riseup....
Win a Server for Life (some restrictions apply)
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The riseup birds have big big dreams! But, alas, we are kept super busy maintaining and improving the current services we provide. One thing we are good at is building infrastructure (and acquiring donated hardware).
So good, in fact, that we want to give some of it away in a contest we are calling the "Win a Server for Life (some restrictions apply) 2008 Extravaganza".
We got the servers, you got the talent, baby! Here's the deal: We provide your collective with free hardware, bandwidth, and rackspace for the life of the server. You provide an important service to a radical social movement or local community. So long as you are using the capacity of the server, we will maintain it and host it for you.
We are particularly keen on ideas to create new services that do not currently exist, services that are difficult to find, or services that meet a need for an underserved community. Examples might include VoIP for radicals, rails hosting that keeps no logs, an encrypted backup service for activists, secure DNS services, and so on.
The server in question is a quad core 2.8ghz xeon with 4gb of ram and three disk bays. Don't bother with a formal proposal. Drop us a note at collective@riseup.net with your idea and what you are about. We will talk, figure out who we know in common, and make sweet data together.
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