next message in archive
no next message in thread
previous message in archive
Index of Subjects
Hi Bill, >Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 00:06:07 -0300 >From: crant@ns.sympatico.ca (B. Crant) >To: ip-help@chebucto.ns.ca >Subject: Re: Infomation Provider > >I am writing to ask what are your requirements to become and information >provider, we now have that status with InfoNET at Memorial University in >St. John's, NF, but are looking for other servers to expand, since we do >develop a large amount of Information. I think we used about 25 meg. at >InfoNET and then Wordplay a book store in St. John's gave us 50, which >we also filled. This information consist of Historical and Genealogical >Data related to Newfoundland, including the 1921 Census, 1864-65 and >1871 Directories of Newfoundland and much more. We are now looking to >complete the 1898 and start on the 1904 Directory of Newfoundland, which >requires about 10 meg of disk space. We feel that spreading the >information on various servers is the proper thing to do since 75% of >the traffic at InfoNET comes from the data we supplied and that adding >more would over burden them and Wordplay is really not that reliable. >I note that you say Atlantic Canada, rather than Maritime Canada, so >that's why we ask you, since Newfoundland is part of Atlantic Canada. >Now the bottom line for us is we really never formed any legal formation >in this group of three people that are involved as one myself lives in >Nova Scotia, another in Florida and the other in Alberta. This makes it >to difficult as volunteers, we simply acquire the info, then ask the >hundreds of Volunteers to type it and they pay for copies and postage >and we do the rest as far as getting it on the internet, sort of loose >knit, so we couldn't actually sign any papers that required a legal >affiliation, although we are considering applying for registration as a >non-profit organization with the NS or NF government. >The bottom line is would we "Newfoundland's Grand Banks" qualify as >Information Providers within your organization and if so what route >should we take as we don't have any funding. > >Thanks in Advance! >-- >Bill Crant, PO Box 86, 24 Lorna Crt., Elmsdale, NS B0N 1M0 >Phone (902) 883-8634 >Founder - Newfoundland's Grand Banks >http://www.infonet.st-johns.nf.ca/project21/ >or http://www.wordplay.com/ngb/ This seems like a very interesting and worthwhile project. I don't see any problems in terms of its potential suitibility as a CCN Information Provider. You should take a look at our Information Provider's Support Home Page at: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Services/IPsupport/index.html We don't require that our Information Provider groups be formally constituted (say registered under the province's Societies Act), however, all groups (even if they consist of a collection of individuals like yours) have to sign a copy of our IP Agreement which governs the terms of our respective conduct and responsibilities. This Agreement is part of the IP process. If you would like to pursue this project please send in an on-line IP Application, links to which are located at the above URL. The members of your group involved in the administering of the site will also have to acquire individual CCN memberships. To do so, telnet to chebucto.ns.ca, login as 'guest' and follow the menus to get your own account and login. Best wishes, Christopher Majka _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. Christopher Majka <aa051@chebucto.ns.ca> Editor-in-Chief: Chebucto Community Net - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada URL = http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Home.html _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.
next message in archive
no next message in thread
previous message in archive
Index of Subjects