"Adopt an onion [1]" campaign
(part of :
"Contibute to Tor network with Nos oignons"
https://nos-oignons.net/campagne2015/index.en.html )
>From June 15th to August 15th, for any donation above 2 €,
you can propose a name of our next Tor relay !
For the records, our current relays are named : "Marcuse", "Ekumen" and
"Marylou".
Herbert Marcuse was a 20th century marxist philosopher and sociologist.
In "One-Dimensional Man" he critics consumerism
as a form of social control.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Dimensional_Man
This name has been chosen to claim the wish of an Internet
that is not only a space for consumption.
Ekumen is an intergalactic political organisation in
the Ursula Le Guin science-fiction work.
>From Wikipedia :
Ekumen was made possible thanks to the invention of the "ansible",
a machine capable of instantaneous transmission of information.
The physical trip nevertheless still subject to classic physical
principles, meaning there is no way to go faster than light speed.
This constraint renders the creation of a military force impossible.
Such force would not make any sense : most of the protagonists of a
conflict would die before they get there. It is then mostly a space
of sharing knowledge for the common good.
Marylou is a character from the novel "Mocking Bird" by
Walter Tevis. In this novel, the robots handle all the labor,
and mankind is reduced to consuming government-provided tranquilisers.
Marylou is a rebel woman in this system, who illegaly lives
in a Zoo by exploiting the robots' flaws. There, she meets Paul
Bentley, one of the few who still knows how to read, and Spoffort, an
android desperatly looking for a way to commit suicide.
Marylou leads those two others characters through a search
for liberty and meaning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingbird_%28Tevis_novel%29
To contribute, send an email to adopt.an.onion(a)nos-oignons.net,
with the day, hour, amount and mean of payment
(transfer, cash, paypal, bitcoin) of your donation,
along with your suggestion.
We will choose between 3 proposals, picked up randomly
(and, if we like some of the non-chosen proposals, we won't forget them
for our followings relays :) )
We are waiting for your ideas !
Nos oignons
[1] : About the name: in French the idiom for “mind your own business”
is “mind your own onions”. So, we are minding ours, and these are your
onions.
See https://nos-oignons.net/%C3%80_propos/index.en.html
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Contribute to Tor network with Nos oignons.
-> https://nos-oignons.net/campagne2015/index.en.html
Billions of people are nowadays using the Tor network to protect their
privacy. At least one connection over fifty will exits by one of our Nos
oignons relays [1]. We need you to continue.
In a context of renew threats on our freedom, Tor is a way to protect
our privacy in the digital world.
An exit node costs us a bit less than 300€ per month. We have currently
3 months of cash advance. One-time givings will allow Nos oignons to
maintain currents relays. Regulars donations will allow us to see
further and set up new relays !
You can donate with cash donations, bitcoins, flattr, paypal and
transfer. You can obtain our RIB by mailing at donate(a)nos-oignons.net .
Thanks for your help,
Nos oignons.
[1]: https://nos-oignons.net/Services/
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