Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:49:10 -0500 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Mit Rowe <mit@mitayai.org> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grants Message-ID: <41B38256.20735.A030E8A3@localhost> In-Reply-To: <41B3C01C.4060602@mitayai.org>
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On 5 Dec 2004 at 21:12, Mit Rowe wrote: > I have also considered it my duty to encourage FreeBSD mirrors in > Canada, but I have been constantly frustrated by my ability to have > corporations provide long-term resources to the FreeBSD Project in terms > of WWW, FTP, and CVSUp mirrors of the FreeBSD releases, source, and > documentation. > > This frustration has led me to think of turning to the government of > Canada, starting from the Communications Research Centre (an agency of > Industry Canada) and working my way up, looking for either them to host > the FreeBSD mirror or provide a grant to someone to do so. I know the folks at NRC that run the ftp.ca > However, before i speak for the FreeBSD Project, i believe that i am > honour-bound to request feed back on my intent and method; therefore, i > ask your feedback, comments and advice on the following letter i think i > should send first to info@crc.ca and see what kind of feedback i receive > from them (which i would report back). > > Also, perhaps any lurking Canadians out there could hold up their hands? > I sometimes feel pretty lonely out here in this corner of the world :-) Have you seen http://www.goslingcommunity.org/ ? -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/
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