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What Services Are Available?
Please see the Services
page to read about what services I provide.
Who Qualifies For Free Services?
dreamworld.org gives away internet services at no charge
to people and organizations that are selflessly dedicated to helping
in some way.
You don't
have to be an IRS-registered non-profit. All you have
to do is be working to contribute something positive.
For example,
you could be helping the homeless, or victims of eating disorders, or
GLBT teens, or the politically oppressed, or other non-profit organizations.
You could
be cleaning up the environment, helping animals, or exposing injustices.
Is happy ok?
It's
not all gloom. You could be doing something happy, like reuniting alumni
from your high school, discussing a philosophy, giving away your beautiful
photography, etc.
Who Does Not Qualify?
Gamers,
fan clubs, sport sites, and the like, are projects for people who
already have something. Such projects are usually not a good fit
here. dreamworld is generally about giving to the less fortunate.
What should my services be like?
Your
services should be either free, or non-profit. This is a must. You should
not seek to benefit financially from what you do.
Your project
should not take up huge amounts of disk space, or require lots of bandwidth.
I have a smaller drive and a modest DSL connection.
Someone
in your organization should be an adult, so they can officially sign
the request.
You should
be able to discuss your project plan with clarity, forethought, and
purpose. It should be very clear exactly what you intend to accomplish,
and how. If you cannot explain this to someone else, you don't have
a good plan yet.
Your project
should not discriminate. For example, if you are a Boy/Girl Scout troop,
you should not ban gay leaders. If you are a church, you should not
preach anti-Semitism, and so on.
These are
very general guidelines. I have few hard-and-fast rules here.
In general, if your project has something to give, or if you are a worthy
cause in need, then dreamworld.org is for you.
Your
Technical Skills
Someone in your organization
should know how to make your web pages, and how to upload them to an
FTP server. Email addresses use the standard POP3 protocol. The admin
contact should be a legal adult.
Concepts
about the project
Mainly, I want to
see that you are serious about your project and committed about seeing
it through in the long run. I want to see that you have thought things
through. The who, and the how.
To meet
these needs, I am asking that you please send me the answers to the
questions at www.dreamworld.org/apply Why don't I provide a hyperlink?
I find that people who skip reading this page, just scroll down to the
bottom to look for the blue underlined text. And if they did that, their
project would be denied anyway.