Media Release: Special Olympics Joins California Colocation Project

For Immediate Release: October 3, 2002

Contact:

David E. Weekly

Founder & Director
California Community Colocation Project
dweekly@communitycolo.net

Judith Powell

Chief Information Officer
Special Olympics of Northern California
judith@sonc.org

Will Doherty

Executive Director
Online Policy Group
doherty@onlinepolicy.org

Special Olympics Joins California Colocation Project

Organization Serves Growing List of Nonprofit Clients

San Francisco Bay Area - The California Community Colocation Project (CCCP) today announced a partnership with the Special Olympics of Northern California. CCCP, a project of the Online Policy Group, provides free hosting for computer servers from nonprofit organizations, such as the server running the Special Olympics' backend database.

The Special Olympics database server contains donor, participant, and event information, and currently resides at CCCP's Hurricane Electric location in Fremont, CA.

"This has been a life-saver for our infrastructure!" commented Special Olympics CIO Judith Powell. "Locating our server at a first-rate facility while still remaining cost-effective is a dream come true!"

CCCP Director David E. Weekly reported that the Special Olympics has been extremely pleased with the "consistently and demonstrably high quality of service" they've been offered and has future plans to move additional servers to the CCCP facility. Weekly noted that CCCP hosts over two dozen other clients.

For this media release:
http://www.onlinepolicy.org/media/specialolympicscccp021003.shtml

About CCCP:

The California Community Colocation Project offers free colocation services to nonprofit organizations, open source projects, and individuals. As a project of the Online Policy Group, CCCP is entirely supported by donations. Find out more at http://www.communitycolo.net/

About Special Olympics of Northern California:

Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for people eight years of age and older with developmental disabilities. Special Olympics Northern California spans from the Oregon border to Monterey and Tulare counties, and serves approximately 13,000 developmentally disabled athletes. Find out more at http://www.sonc.org/

About OPG:

The Online Policy Group (OPG) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to online policy research, outreach, and action on issues such as access, privacy, and digital defamation. The organization fulfills its motto of "one Internet with equal access to all" through projects such as donation-based email list hosting, web hosting, domain registrations, and now colocation services. OPG focuses on Internet participants' civil liberties and human rights, like access, privacy, safety, and serving schools, libraries, disabled, elderly, youth, women, and sexual, gender, and ethnic minorities. Find out more at http://www.onlinepolicy.org/

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