Monday, January 18, 1999

Citiparks Pool Fees

Some Points:
The no-charge options should be part of an overall policy
No-charge admissions reasons can be for income or policy.
The City needs the revenue
No-Charge admission to young people has some support
The swim pools can become splendid opportunities for young people and others.
The City leaders, staff and citizens need to systematically sit down and begin collaboration to come to some findings and understood policies for swim pools.
Let's explore and find ways to make the pools more meaningful,
More programs cost, and the participants or other revenue streams need to be paid for. How is the city to pay for overhead of the new or expended programs.
New programs need to be created with the expectation that extra funds not going to be forthcoming out of the existing budget.

One of the suggested ideas is to close some city facilities. This suggestion could become a reality if the closing decisions are not made in a vacuum. The closings need to be augmented by better run facilities as an outcome of the closing. The point of engage community beef up more regional pools distorting figures... amendment..

Friday, January 01, 1999

FreeTeam.Org -- a defunct domain that used to be in the network, along with SportSurf.net, since 1994

The Internic's Org domain is for non-profit organizations. .Org is a worldwide top level domain designated for miscellaneous entities not fitting under Net, Edu, Gov nor Com.

Non-Profit Status
FreeTeam.Org is slated to become a non-profit organization, to be incorporated in one of the States of the U.S. as a 501(c)(3) entity. This incorporation process should occur in 1999 -- but it didn't. We are resolving issues on the FreeTeam.Org charter, original by-laws, early roles and leader members.

Relationship between FreeTeam.Org and SportSurf.Net
  • FreeTeam.Org's cousin is SportSurf.Net, founded in 1994.
  • The Net domain is for entities and computers that represent part of the Internet's infrastructure.
  • Net domains were originally intended for use by Network Information Centers, Network Operations Centers, and administrative computers (such as a name server) and network node computers.
  • The Net within SportSurf.Net is apparent in the hosting of hundreds of email discussion groups.
  • SportSurf.Net serves as a collaborative, community message hub with top-notch bandwidth utilization and deployments. Many communication opportunities for input, feedback and grass-roots participation are fortified at the site. One aim is to better ideas, information, and participation in sports and related activities.

These Org and Net sites are not Commercial

Neither the non-profit organization, FreeTeam.Org, nor the network happening place, SportSurf.Net are commercial, for-profit, businesses. These efforts are hosted and maintained with altruistic reasons and motivations. These sites present places where re-cycled electrons collide from around the world, mingling folks from any domain (.edu, .gov, .org, .com and others) to sharpen ideas, messages, mediums, and even the masses, one-by-one basis if necessary.


Update:

Other old and gone domains are listed at Hub.SwimISCA.org

Bundle.com.